Years across AI engineering and education
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AI Education Leader · Engineer · Educator
Building the people and systems that make AI useful.
Leading AI talent development in Nepal, teaching the next generation, and engineering reliable tools across Python, Julia, Rust, and the cloud.
Fusemachines · Kathmandu, Nepal
AI talent development
Courses · mentorship · systems
Director of AI Education & Talent Development
Adjunct Faculty, Kathmandu University
Engineer, researcher & open-source builder
01 Profile
Turning AI complexity into organizational capability.
Rojesh works where engineering, education, and institutional change meet.
From production machine-learning systems to curricula used across South Asia, his focus is practical: help people understand the fundamentals, build working systems, and apply AI with judgment.
Visit original portfolioAI professionals and learners trained
Countries reached through AI programs
AI and machine-learning courses designed
02 Experience
A decade bridging AI engineering and education.
Leadership built from the work itself: research, systems, classrooms, fellowships, and teams.
2017 — Present Current
Director of AI Education & Talent Development
Fusemachines
Leads AI fellowships, academic programs, internships, apprenticeships, and professional training across multiple countries.
2020 — Present Current
Adjunct Faculty, Computer Science & AI
Kathmandu University
Designs and teaches data science and data engineering courses for graduate and undergraduate AI programs.
2017 — 2019
Senior ML Research Engineer
Fusemachines
Built computer-vision pipelines for intelligent character recognition across multi-institution datasets.
2016 — 2020
Co-Founder & Technical Lead
Airlift Technologies
Led applied drone work spanning aerial surveying, precision agriculture, and a delivery-drone proof of concept.
03 Practice
What I build
Learning systems and technical foundations that move people from curiosity to capability.
Talent systems
AI fellowships that create practitioners, not spectators.
Program architecture, curriculum, mentoring, assessment, and industry pathways for emerging AI talent.
Academic programs
Rigorous courses grounded in real engineering work.
Data science, data engineering, deep learning, computer vision, NLP, and responsible AI.
Enterprise capability
Workshops that change how teams work with AI.
Prompt architecture, AI productivity, deployment strategy, governance, and workflow redesign.
Reliable systems
Tools designed for clarity, performance, and reuse.
Python, Julia, Rust, JavaScript, Docker, AWS, GCP, and open-source learning infrastructure.
04 Teaching
Teaching philosophy
Concepts before tools. Problems before solutions. Produce, don't consume.
Every course moves from foundations to challenge-based practice and ends with something built: a model, an analysis, or a working system.
Data Acquisition Management System
Kathmandu University · M.Tech. in AI
Introduction to Data Science
Kathmandu University · B.Tech. in AI
AI Ethics & Governance
Leadership, policy and institutional teams
Applied NLP & Large Language Models
ML engineers and data scientists
Deep Learning Foundations
Fusemachines AI Academy
Enterprise AI Deployment
Corporate technology professionals
05 Research & engineering
From experimental systems to useful tools.
The technical thread runs from robotics and medical computer vision to open-source infrastructure for learning and scientific work.
Research paper · 2018
Malaria Detection Using Image Processing and Machine Learning
Computer vision and neural methods for assisting parasite detection in microscopic blood-cell imagery.
Read the paper ↗Applied robotics · Airlift
Drone delivery, aerial surveying & precision agriculture
Technical leadership for drone applications, including a successfully completed delivery proof of concept.
Selected open source
Public tools, practical problems.
Julia
ODFIO.jl
Import and export tooling for Open Document Format files.
Julia · JupyterPluto2Jupyter.jl
A practical converter between Pluto and Jupyter notebooks.
Rustmdbook-jupyter
Bringing executable notebook workflows into mdBook publishing.
PythonGoogleNepaliCalendar
A Nepali calendar integration for Google Calendar.
06 Workshops & speaking
Command the room. Leave people with a working system.
Live, facilitated learning for leaders, educators, researchers, and technical teams—built around decisions and workflows participants can use immediately.
Explore workshopsHalf-day intensive
Prompt Architecture & Workflow Adaptation
For teams and managersFull-day workshop
Enterprise AI Deployment Strategy
For leaders and institutionsTwo-day program
AI for Research & Academic Excellence
For universities and research teams07 Writing
Notes for builders and learners.
Read on Medium ↗Let's make AI useful