PUBLISHED RESEARCH

Research that left the lab.

A growing archive of papers produced and supported through the KhojByte ecosystem — peer-reviewed, indexed, and openly indexed for impact.

2025FEATURED

Multilingual BERT for Low-Resource Nepali NLP

Aarya Sharma · Niraj Adhikari · Sushila Rai
ACL Findings 2025

Benchmark for mBERT fine-tuned for Nepali with 6.8 F1 improvement on downstream tasks.

AI/MLNLP
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2025FEATURED

Climate-Resilient Glacier Mass Balance Modelling in the Eastern Himalayas

Pooja Thapa · Rajan Bhattarai
Nature Climate Change

Sentinel-2 and ICESat-2 data for high-resolution glacier mass balance modelling in Khumbu and Langtang.

Climate ScienceRemote Sensing
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2025FEATURED

Indigenous Knowledge Systems in Climate Adaptation: A Systematic Review

Pooja Thapa · Anita Maharjan · Sushila Rai
Global Environmental Change

Review of 184 studies surfacing indigenous-knowledge contributions to climate adaptation.

Climate ScienceSocial Sciences
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2024FEATURED

Cluster-Randomised Hypertension Screening in Rural Nepal

Bibek Acharya · Suman Karki
The Lancet Global Health

Trial across 48 rural communities demonstrating 31% detection improvement via community health workers.

Public HealthMedical Sciences
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2024FEATURED

Seismic Retrofitting of Stone-Masonry Heritage Structures Post-Gorkha

Rajan Bhattarai · Anita Maharjan
Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics

Phased retrofitting framework for 124 heritage structures post 2015 Gorkha earthquake.

Civil Engineering
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2025

Reinforcement Learning for Hydropower Reservoir Operations in Nepal

Niraj Adhikari · Rajan Bhattarai
Applied Energy

Deep RL increases annual generation by 8.4% across three Himalayan reservoirs.

AI/MLEnvironment
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2025

Smartphone-Based Vision Screening in Rural Schools

Bibek Acharya · Sushila Rai
BMJ Open Ophthalmology

Smartphone-app visual acuity tool across 28 rural schools with sensitivity ≥0.91.

Public HealthMedical Sciences
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2024

Digital Pedagogy Adoption in Public Universities in Nepal

Sushila Rai · Anita Maharjan
Computers & Education

Sequential mixed-methods design exploring digital pedagogy barriers across 12 public universities.

EducationSocial Sciences
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2024

Federated Learning for Privacy-Preserving Health Records in South Asia

Aarya Sharma · Bibek Acharya
npj Digital Medicine

Federated diagnostic models across 7 hospitals for TB chest X-ray screening.

AI/MLMedical Sciences
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2024

Microcredit and Women's Entrepreneurship in Far-Western Nepal

Anita Maharjan
World Development

Panel econometric analysis across 11 districts over 6 years.

EconomicsSocial Sciences
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2024

Real-Time Air-Quality Forecasting for Kathmandu using GNN + Transformer

Niraj Adhikari · Aarya Sharma
Environmental Science & Technology

GNN+Transformer achieving 22% lower RMSE for 6h PM2.5 forecasts.

AI/MLEnvironment
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2024

Privacy-Preserving Survey Linkage for Migration Studies

Anita Maharjan · Aarya Sharma
Survey Methodology

Secure MPC framework linking 14,200 households across migration corridors.

EconomicsComputer Science
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