Ad-Hoc Committee

The current governing body of the NaYAN is the Ad-Hoc Committee unanimously selected by the meeting of young scientists held on 28 December 2019. A new executive committee elected by the next general assembly will replace the current ad-hoc committee.

Members of Ad-Hoc Committee:

Bal Kumari Oliya, Ph.D.

Plant ScienceTribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal

Basant Giri, Ph.D. (Chair)

Analytical ChemistryKathmandu Institute of Applied Sciences, Kathmandu, Nepal

Bishesh Khanal, Ph.D.

Artificial IntelligenceNAAMII, Kathmandu, Nepal

Sagar Regmi, Ph.D.

Material ScienceTribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal

Smrittee Kala Panta, Ph.D.

Social ScienceSamriddhi Agriculture Research and Development Pvt. Ltd.

Suraj Bhattarai, MD

Medical Science/Global HealthGlobal Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies (GIIS), Kathmandu, Nepal

Uttam Babu Shrestha, Ph.D.

Environmental ScienceGlobal Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies (GIIS), Kathmandu, Nepal

The meeting that selected the ad-hoc committee was attened by following 22 Nepali young scientists.

  • Achyut Tiwari

  • Ashim Dhakal

  • Balkumari Oliya

  • Basant Giri

  • Bhanu Neupane

  • Bikram Acharya

  • Binod Bhattarai

  • Bishesh Khanal

  • Bishnu Marasini

  • Danda Pani Poudel

  • Devi Prasad Ojha

  • Dibas Shrestha

  • Homnath Luitel

  • Narayan Koju

  • Sagar Regmi

  • Smriti Kala Pant

  • Subash Adhikari

  • Suraj Bhattarai

  • Susma Giri

  • Ujjawal Kushwaha

  • Uttam Babu Shrestha (online)

  • Yadav Joshi

Group photo after the meeting on 28th December 2019

The above meeting followed several informal and formal meetings among the interested Nepali young scientists. Some formal meetings are mentioned below.

The first formal meeting was held on September 06, 2019 at Durbarmarg, Kathmandu. The meeting was attended by following 16 scientists.

  • Achyut Adhikari

  • Annada Rajbhandari

  • Ashim Dhakal

  • Basant Giri

  • Bhanu Neupane

  • Bishesh Khanal

  • Debal Prasad Bhattarai

  • Hari Poudel

  • Homnath Luitel

  • Khem Raj Shrestha

  • Krishna Devkota

  • Madan Kumar Pokharel

  • Pranil MS Pradhan

  • Raunak Shrestha

  • Suraj Bhattarai

  • Uttam Babu Shrestha

Participants of first formal meeting

Second formal meeting was held at Radisson Hotel, Kathmandu on 22nd October 2019. This meeting was attended by following 11 participants.

Dipendra Gautam, Prativa Pandey, Sujata Shrestha, Meena Suwal, Achyut Tiwari, Bishesh Khanal, Suraj Bhattarai, Uttam Babu Shrestha, Meghnath Dhimal, Bhanu Neupane and Basant Giri.

Group photo after the meeting