I'm Astha Adhikari,
an AI Engineer.

4+ years turning research into real products. From 3D perception on edge devices to LLM agents in production, I build AI that ships.

Astha Adhikari

Who am I?

Astha Adhikari
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// AI Engineer with 4+ years of experience
"location": "Melbourne, Australia"
"current_role": "Associate AI Engineer @ BookedAI"
"focus": ["Computer Vision", "LLMs", "Edge AI", "3D Perception"]
"education": "Master in AI Software — Gachon University, S.Korea"
"publications": 3
"languages": ["Nepali", "English"]
"passion": "Building AI that works in the real world"

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Where I've worked

May 2025 — Present
Associate AI Engineer
BookedAI — Melbourne, Australia

Architected production-grade LangChain agents using RAG and Vector Databases; integrated MCP tools to automate booking workflows, resulting in a 40% efficiency gain and significant reduction in API latency.

Sep 2023 — Oct 2024
AI Perception Engineer
AR 24.7 — Seoul, South Korea

Optimised 3D LiDAR segmentation models for edge deployment on NVIDIA Jetson using TensorRT; achieved a 70% increase in inference speed while maintaining high-fidelity detection for autonomous systems.

Sep 2021 — Aug 2023
Graduate Research Assistant
Gachon University — Seoul, South Korea

Spearheaded research into Generative AI and Computer Vision using PyTorch, resulting in 3 peer-reviewed publications with improvements over baseline benchmarks in Image Computing.

Apr 2020 — Aug 2021
Software Developer
Wiseyak Solution — Kathmandu, Nepal

Engineered a high-traffic Telemedicine platform and EMR system; integrated a custom NLP-based autocomplete feature using FastAPI, improving medical data entry speed by 40% while ensuring HIPAA-level data privacy.

Jun 2018 — Jul 2019
Junior AI Developer
Mpercept Technology — Kathmandu, Nepal

Delivered production-ready AI applications, including Rasa-based conversational agents and Computer Vision tools for ICR and object localisation, resulting in a 60% reduction in manual data processing time.

Tech I work with

AI / ML
Computer Vision
Development
Tools & Infra
PyTorch TensorFlow LangChain RAG Transformers LLMs Vector Databases 3D Object Detection LiDAR Perception Image Segmentation TensorRT Super-Resolution Python FastAPI ROS Rasa REST APIs NVIDIA Jetson Docker Git Linux MCP

Publications

Image and Vision Computing (ELSEVIER) — July 2024
AM-BQA: Attention-based Multi-dimensional Blind Image Quality Assessment
Astha Adhikari, Sang-Woong Lee
ICNGC 2022 Proceedings — October 2022
Polyp Segmentation
Astha Adhikari, Sang-Woong Lee
KING Spring Conference — May 2022
AI Super-Resolution
Astha Adhikari, Sang-Woong Lee

Academic background

Master in AI Software
Gachon University, South Korea
Sep 2021 — Aug 2023
Bachelor in Computer Engineering
Tribhuvan University, Nepal
Oct 2014 — Jan 2019

Beyond the code

🎓
Mentor — Udacity Secure & Private AI
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Nanodegree Scholar — Computer Vision, Udacity
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Mentor — AIDevNepal Community
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Mentor — RAGA Girls in Technology
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Organizer — OKRP Conference
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Level 2 — Gachon Global Leaders Toastmaster

Let's connect

Whether it's a collaboration, research, or just a chat about AI — I'd love to hear from you.