About
PhD scientist working at the intersection of pharmaceutical science, business development, and technology strategy. I'm especially interested in building scientific partnerships, identifying where new technologies can create meaningful value, and turning complex technical work into clear business and R&D decisions.
Currently
Lead Application Scientist at DigiM
At DigiM, I lead client-facing pharmaceutical R&D programs that use advanced imaging, microstructure analysis, and AI/ML to help formulation and development teams better understand their products.
Since joining the company, I have managed more than 200 scientific projects, including work with major pharmaceutical companies and FDA stakeholders. My role spans both science and business: I define project scopes, translate technical findings into practical decisions, manage strategic client relationships, identify follow-on opportunities, and help develop new analytical offerings.
I also work closely with company leadership on account growth and scientific strategy, while managing and mentoring junior scientists.
What I build
Outside of work I build things. Right now that means Paperika ; a tool that takes your name or scholarly profile, infers your research area, and gives you a ranked feed of papers published in your field in the past week, with a relatedness verdict and a one-line rationale for each. It's a problem I ran into myself: I wanted to stay current without spending an hour every week sorting through everything that wasn't relevant.
In development
Paperika
Hot papers in your field. A radar for papers that matter to your work.
See what I'm building →Background
I did my PhD in Physics at Georgia Tech, studying how bacterial colonies grow. The work involved a lot of microscopy, image analysis, and building models and it led to a first-author paper in Nature Physics. More than the result, what I took from that experience was a habit of asking whether the evidence actually supports what you're claiming. That's shaped how I think about everything since.
Before grad school, I ran a project through the Davis Project for Peace — a $10,000 grant I wrote and managed to establish a library in two rural schools in Nepal. It was my first real experience leading something from an idea to something that existed in the world. I'm from Nepal originally, so this one was personal.