Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Data Scientist

Corvian

Jun 2025 – Present Research Triangle Park, NC
Development of agronomic models to support digital agriculture solutions.
 
 
 
 
 

Digital Agronomist

Xarvio Digital Farming Solutions, BASF

Nov 2020 – May 2025 Research Triangle Park, NC
Designed and deployed scalable ML-based agronomic decision systems using satellite data, field trials, and cloud infrastructure to improve disease forecasting and precision crop management.
 
 
 
 
 

Research Associate

Oregon State University

Jun 2019 – Oct 2020 Corvallis, Oregon
Spatio-temporal spread of infectious diseases and control strategies using wheat stripe rust as an experimental model and SIR based simulation model.
 
 
 
 
 

Graduate Research Assistant

University of Florida

Aug 2014 – May 2019 Gainesville, Florida
Investigations into sugarcane rusts: disease prediction modeling and management.
 
 
 
 
 

Agricultural Officer

Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development

Jan 2012 – Aug 2014 Kathmandu, Nepal
Provided technical leadership in plant disease diagnostics and field trial design by evaluating varietal performance, crop safety, and disease management strategies while coordinating with R&D and product assessment teams to deliver reliable agronomic insights.

Projects

Investigating the spatial and temporal spread of infectious disease including control strategies

Development of weather based predictive model and management using fungicides

Wheat cultivar mixtures supress the wheat stripe rust epidemics!

Agronomic Intelligence Lab

Building predictive models, analytics workflows, and decision systems for real-world agricultural challenges

Estimate leaf wetness duration using a CART-based approach in R with a simple worked example.

Create weather predictors for Agronomic Intelligence using R

How to calculate AUDG from field observations and compare treatments using R.

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