Pramish Paudel

I recently completed my undergraduate degree in Computer Engineering from Pulchowk Campus, IOE, Tribhuvan University. My focus is on projects that can directly benefit a large number of people and contribute to accelerating positive changes in society.

My 2030 goal: I envision enabling people to watch the 2030 World Cup live as holograms through augmented reality, facilitated by real-time scene reconstruction using RGB videos. (Why I choose this particular problem ?)

My long-term goal: To create AI models (accurate representation of our complex, 3D and dynamic world) that can teach any concept to any person through any modality, thereby making education universally accessible and transformative.

Email: pramish[dot]paudel[at]gmail[dot]com  /  CV  /  Scholar  /  Github

Publications

iHuman lets you reconstruct high fidelity 3D Gaussian Splats and 3D Mesh from monocular video of moving humans.

Awards and Honors

• Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, INSAIT: Selected in INSAIT's prestigious Summer Research Fellowship for undergraduate students all over the world with acceptance rate as low as 3%.
• Hult Prize Global Accelerator 2022, Boston, US: Reached to top 16 teams worldwide competing over 30K teams with my startup MeasureMe.AI.
• Huawei Seeds for the Future 2022: Recognized as one of the top 7 computer science talents nationwide.
• Start-up Seed Fund Grant Recipient, 2023: Secured NPR 3.2 Million as a startup running fund for my college department through my startup.
• Microsoft Imagine Cup 2022: Represented South Asia at the Asia Regionals.
• ICT Award 2023: Finalist among Nepal’s top twelve innovators.
• Hack A Week 2018, 2019: First place in AI-themed hackathon at LOCUS.
• KU IT MEET 2019: Winner of the hackathon hosted by Kathmandu University.
• Glocals’ 20 Under 20, 2017: Honored for driving notable societal change through IT.

Projects

• [2019] Radiograph Abnormality Detection (RAD): Developed an X-ray image abnormality detection system that excelled in competitions, winning first place at KU IT MEET 2019 and Locus 2019 AI hackathons.
• [2018] VAE GAN Anime Image Colorizer: Created an image colorization tool that won the Locus 2018 national level hackathon while still in high school.
• [2021] AutoDiff Package: Built a C++ package for automatic differentiation using dual numbers.
• [2022] Blockchain from Scratch: Developed a blockchain system focusing on proof of work algorithms, enhancing understanding of blockchain fundamentals.
• [2020] Vicaaya - Movie Search Engine: Developed a movie search engine using Elasticsearch for search capabilities. Engineered Scrapy scraper to scrape 100M+ items throughout the internet with very coordinated distributed instances.
• [2017] Carduino: Designed a mini self-driving car model utilizing smartphone camera and ultrasonic sensors, awarded at the Trinity SciTech Expo.
• [2016] Proto News / Khabar Sanjal: Created a news app for Nepalese abroad at age 15, reaching over 20,000 downloads.

Blogs

• [20 Jul 24] Behind the Scenes: The Journey to Nepal's First ECCV Paper

  Discover the behind-the-scenes journey of how I and my co-author overcame numerous challenges to achieve a groundbreaking milestone in AI research with our ECCV 2024 paper, "iHuman: Instant Digital Humans From Monocular Videos."

• [Sep 2024] The Art of Thinking Clearly - Book Summary

  A summary of Rolf Dobelli's insights into cognitive biases and how to recognize them for better decision-making.