Session Schedule – Theme 3

Session ChairDr. Bipun Man Pati

Session Co-ChairEr. Anil Thapa

RapporteurEr. Prabhakar Singh

Date07 October 2026

VenueLemon Tree Premier, Budhanilkantha, Kathmandu

S.N	Time (NST)	Paper Topic	Authors
1	1:30 PMto 1:45 PM	Questioning the Benchmarks: Hidden Circularity in AQ-10 Autism Screening Datasets	Soham Biren Katlariwala – India Amina Saeed – Pakistan Harina Kumari Khati – Nepal Mahdisa Moradi – USA
2	1:45 PMto 2:00 PM	Enhancing Sentiment Analysis of Romanized Code-Mixed Nepali Social Media Text through Monolingual Transformation	Safal Sharma – Nepal Apar Poudel – Nepal Bidur Devkota – Nepal
3	2:00 PMto 2:15 PM	Machine Learning Techniques for Tabular Data Classification and Regression: A Systematic Literature Review of Traditional and Deep Learning Approaches	Parash Mani Shah – Nepal Narendra Sharki – Nepal Dipesh Yadav – Nepal Mahesh Dahal – Nepal
4	2:15 PMto 2:30 PM	Plant Pest Identification and Treatment Recommendation Using Deep Learning	Kyathrin Chemjong – Nepal Rupesh Chaudhary – Nepal Prem B. KC – Nepal
5	2:30 PMto 2:45 PM	EdgeQuakeNet: A Federated Transformer Framework for Real-Time Earthquake Early Warning on Resource-Constrained Edge Devices	Arman Ansari – Nepal
6	2:45 PMto 3:00 PM	An Ensemble Based Approach for Facial Emotion Recognition	Samundra Bhandari – Nepal Juhi Jha – Nepal Anish Bhattarai – Nepal Rahul Chaudhary – Nepal Narayan Sapkota – Nepal
7	3:00 PMto 3:15 PM	NepScript Genesis: Neural Architecture Search for Handwritten Devanagari Digit Synthesis	Mausam Gurung – Nepal Prabin Neupane – Nepal Sajjan Acharya – Nepal
8	3:15 PMto 3:30 PM	Please Make it Sound like Human: Encoder-Decoder vs. Decoder-Only Transformers for AI-to-Human Text Style Transfer	Utsav Paneru – Nepal
9	3:30 PMto 3:45 PM	Bridging the Resource Gap: Nepali-Assisted Transfer Learning for Low-Resource Nepal Bhasa–English Neural Machine Translation with NLLB-200 and mBART-50	Sarbin Sayami – Nepal Subarna Shakya – Nepal
10	3:45 PMto 4:00 PM	A Comparative Evaluation of Traditional and Transformer-Based Approaches for Detecting Hate Speech in Nepali Political Content	Pravin Rana – Nepal
11	4:00 PMto 4:15 PM	Design and Evaluation of Machine Learning Models for Predicting At-Risk Students in Universities	Dharma Raj Ojha – Nepal Akhtar Husain – India Prakash Datt Bhatt – Nepal
Certificate Distribution to Paper Presenters
End of This Technical Session

Organized by Everest Engineering College · Co-organized by Himalayan Institute of Science & Technology
This schedule is tentative and may change.