Working where human signals meet digital health.
Utsav Poudel
Citations across peer-reviewed work
Papers and preprints, first author on most
Patents filed with Intellectual Property India
Students taught free through Fulcrum
What the repositories hold
Everything below is public on github.com/r11up. The research, not a portfolio of it.
geo-cog
EEG and environmental-context fusion for affective-state prediction. Underlies the neuro-geospatial manuscript.
affective-computing
Graph attention networks and a hybrid quantum graph autoencoder for ASD classification from ABIDE fMRI connectivity.
ocr-engines
The benchmark behind the OCR paper, comparing engines across number plates, receipts and handwriting.
Fulcrum
“Ability is distributed evenly across the world; opportunity is not.” Fulcrum is the volunteer-run non-profit I founded in 2025: free AI education, permanently, for learners in under-resourced regions.
Students reached across rural Nepal and the Indian subcontinent
Free programs, no paywall, no login
Guides and decks published openly
Volunteer-run, no tuition, no salaries
The programs are mentorship, research and publication support, project building in AI, technical workshops, and a guest speaker series.
Honours & awards
Global Nominee, NASA Space Apps Challenge
Represented Nepal with a GraphRAG system synthesising 600+ NASA biomedical and space-biology publications into a queryable knowledge graph.
Abroad Research Scholarship
Sole School of Computer Science representative selected for a fully-funded research placement at Deakin University.
Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Research Award, twice
Conferred by the Dean of Research and Pro-Vice Chancellor of VIT for research on the ethical integration of AI in psychiatric care.
Harvard Aspire Leaders Program, Alumni
Selected from 36,050 global applicants, a 17% acceptance rate.
1st Runner-up, DevSoc'23 AI Hackathon
AUD 1,350 for the best innovative solution to societal challenges among 1,300+ participants, for a low-cost prosthetic prototype using depth sensing.