Rate My Professor Pankaj Raj Dawadi

Pankaj Raj Dawadi is an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering in the School of Engineering at Kathmandu University. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Kathmandu University, with his dissertation titled "Intelligent Transportation System in Nepal: Investigation of Implementation Challenges of License Plate, Smart Intersection, and Autonomous Navigation," centered on image processing, machine/deep learning, and computer vision. Previously, he earned a Master’s in Computer and Information Engineering from Inha University, South Korea (2006-2008), with a thesis on “Feature Variance and Adaptive Classifier for Efficient Face Recognition,” and a Bachelor’s in Computer Engineering from Kathmandu Engineering College (1999-2003).

At Kathmandu University, Dawadi has undertaken prominent roles such as Acting Head of the Department since 31st July 2024 and Head effective from 15th March 2026, alongside Undergraduate Program Coordinator (2012-2013), Internship and Placement Coordinator (2013-2018), and Team Leader of the Curriculum Drafting Committee for Bachelor of Technology in Artificial Intelligence (2020-2021). His research interests include image processing, machine/deep learning, computer vision, face recognition, and machine learning. He has supervised theses like Deep Bahadur Singh’s “Data-driven Hybrid Model of SARIMA-CNNAR for Tuberculosis Incidence Time Series Analysis in Nepal” (2025), Jen Bati’s “Ranjana Script Handwritten Character Recognition using CNN” (2023), Sumanta Silwal’s work on maize diseases classification (2023), and ongoing PhD by Bhim Gutam on real-time video adversarial detection. Notable publications comprise "Efficient Ensemble of Pre-Trained CNN Models for Improving Classification of Maize Diseases" (2025, Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Capsule Networks), "Ranjana script handwritten character recognition using CNN" (2023, JOIV: International Journal on Informatics Visualization), and "Devanagari License Plate Detection, Classification and Recognition" (2023). Awards include Erasmus+ KA107 Ph.D. Mobility at University of Malaga (2021-2022), Juen-Seok International Student Scholarship and BK21 Scholarship from Inha University, and Staff Training Mobility at Wroclaw University of Technology (2013). He contributes to the Technical Program Committee of IEEE Conference on ICTP and Photonics (2026) and serves as an external thesis examiner.