The Research Idea Center.
Hand-curated research ideas across CS, Health and Climate domains. Each idea contains a gap statement, suggested methodology, literature review, and summary brief — organised by Domain → Subdomain → Topic → Research Area.
Low-resource Nepali instruction-tuning corpora curation
Build a reproducible pipeline that converts Nepali web text + glossed parallel data into high-quality instruction-tuning pairs.
Soiling loss models for high-altitude solar plants in South Asia
Quantify monthly soiling losses at 3 Himalayan PV sites and fit a regression model using AOD + local weather covariates.
Stigma-aware chatbot interventions for adolescent depression in Nepal
Mixed-methods evaluation of a Nepali-language conversational agent that adapts disclosure prompts based on caste, gender and family stigma signals.
Battery-less LoRa sensor nodes for Himalayan crop monitoring
Design and field-test an energy-harvesting LoRa node powered solely by indoor PV + thermoelectric scavenging — targeted at year-round crop telemetry in Mustang and Manang.