Research & doctoral focus
Trust, risk & governance in fintech
Seeking PhD opportunities (Group of Eight, Australia). Core question: how can mathematical, quantitative, and AI-driven models explain — and strengthen — trust in formal and informal financial systems?
Profile statement
A passionate teacher, hands-on doer, and team leader — combining a decade of technical leadership in fintech and trading systems, entrepreneurship as co-founder of a thriving IT services firm, public thought leadership on technology and national development, and long-running ICT education. Now extending this dual track of practice and research — applying for Technical Lead roles with AI focus, research positions, and PhD opportunities exploring how mathematical, quantitative, and AI-driven models address trust and risk in fintech, including community systems such as Dhukuti.
Dhukuti & informal finance (ROSCA models)
Trust formation, risk distribution, and governance in community-based financial systems — via mathematical & quantitative modeling.
AI-driven trust & risk frameworks
Bridging traditional financial behavior models with ML and data-driven risk scoring for digital + informal finance.
Cybersecurity, compliance & governance
ISO 27001/9001 foundations for trustworthy fintech infrastructure.
Applied AI in engineering leadership
Integrating AI/ML into enterprise fintech, trading & KYC for decision-making, fraud detection, operational risk.
Digital economy + energy-tech convergence
How Nepal's surplus hydropower, data centers, AI & blockchain can drive national economic development.
Code as evidence
Research-grade builds on GitHub
Active experimentation backing the doctoral narrative — not just interests, but running code.
linear-probes-by-layer
Residual-stream steering dynamics, lexical controls & topic decodability in GPT-2 via TransformerLens.
AI safetyPrompt-Induced-Steering-Resistance
Activation steering, dose-response dynamics & in-context robustness on GPT-2 via TransformerLens.
Replication studysteering-resistance-experiments
Replication of contrastive activation steering & steering resistance on GPT-2 Small.
Agentic AISAAI-SEO-Agentic-AI
Multi-agent SEO intelligence platform — high-concurrency Go + type-safe Kotlin dual architecture.