AI & Computing Sciences research & innovation to improve lives of people globally

High-quality research from LMICs on critical global problems and democratizing AI. Building a solid research and higher education foundation in AI, informatics, and applied math in Nepal.

Featured Research Projects

AI-assisted VIA Screening of Cervical Cancer


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AI Assisted Microscopy


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Research Groups

Transforming Global health with AI (TOGAI) aims to identify and solve difficult but important problems in global health where Artificial Intelligence (AI) can play an important role.

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B Bhattarai MultiModal Learning Lab (MMLL)

B Bhattarai MultiModal Learning Lab (MMLL) is a research group within NAAMII that focuses on theoretical and applied research in Machine learning (ML) where the researches process information from heterogeneous sources such as vision, text, and speech to make computers understand, interpret and reason.

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Research using AI in Neuroscience (RAIN)

RAIN is another autonomous research group within
NAAMII that focuses on AI & Neuroscience. The research group focuses on different neurological conditions that causes disorders in the human body.

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Computational Endoscopy, Surgery & Pathology (CESP)

CESP is an autonomous research group within NAAMII led by Dr. Sharib Ali that focuses on endoscopic computer vision, surgical data science, computational pathology, conducting high throughput imaging and other medical image analyses.

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Computational Genomics Lab (CGL)

CGL aims to solve complex problems in biological sciences using computational techniques. This research group combines genomics and bioinformatics to develop efficient computational algorithms including machine learning methods.

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Education & Outreach Section

Annual Nepal AI School (ANAIS)

NAAMII annually organizes Nepal AI school and has successfully conducted three winter editions. The inaugural version was successfully held in December 2018 and the second edition was held in December 2019, and the third edition was held in December 2021 that was conducted in a hybrid model due to COVID-19 restrictions.

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Training Workshops

NAAMII conducted a 3-month summer research Training program from June-August 2020. 40 highly motivated students from all across the nation were selected. Women and participants from outside the valley were encouraged to apply. They participated virtually – taking courses on Maths for Machine Learning (Linear Algebra + Probability & Statistics).

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Public Lecture Series

NAAMII has been organizing different lecture series in collaboration with different organizations and renowned professionals.

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Industry & Innovation

Incubating & Supporting Start-ups

NAAMII is incubating Diyo.AI, providing scientific support for developing the next generation of conversational AI in Nepali and local languages.

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Industry Training & Capacity Building

NAAMII Research Scientist has trained, mentored, and helped build a machine learning team at different industries.

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Research & Development for Industry

Our team, led by a Research Scientist, does research and development work for different organization in Computer Vision, 3D reconstruction and video generation from 2D images using state-of-the-art generative models, visual SLAM, and robotics and many more.

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