Our Team

Meet the team

Peter Chen

Co-Founder/CEO

Peter Chen is a distinguished business leader in Machine Learning (ML), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and data science, renowned for driving transformative business outcomes. With over 25 years of corporate experience and a proven track record across multiple industries, Peter seamlessly blends strategic business acumen with advanced technical expertise to solve complex challenges and propel organizations forward. As the Principal and Founder of HyperPlanar, an AI/ML/DS consulting firm, Peter has successfully served clients across various industries and engaged in collaborative work that has led to academic research publications. Notably, his collaborative work in Machine Learning with the UC San Diego School of Medicine has resulted in academic publications with the potential to advance healthcare using AI/ML. Peter has demonstrated exceptional leadership in building and scaling high-performing data science teams at innovative startups and has held pivotal Vice President roles in major corporations. His leadership has consistently driven growth, innovation, and competitive advantage. Peter holds a Bachelor’s degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and two Master’s degrees from Harvard University.

Dr. Hemanta Shrestha

Co-Founder/COO

Dr. Hemanta Shrestha is a versatile business leader with over 20 years of experience in Corporate America. He received his PhD in Economics from the University of Connecticut in 2000. Hemanta has successfully co-founded two tech startups, Wiseyak and NumericMind, both with proven track records. As an experienced data analyst and data scientist, he possesses strong analytical skills and has more than 15 years of expertise in corporate strategy and financial planning. Currently, he leads two startups with a combined team of over 80 employees, including an offshore team based in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Dr. Suresh Manandhar

Co-Founder/Chief Scientist

Dr. Suresh Manandhar, with 35 years of AI expertise, holds a PhD from the University of Edinburgh, UK. He has led the AI Research Group at the University of York, UK, and served on the House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology. As CEO, Chief Scientist, and co-founder of Wiseyak, and Head of AI Research at Fusemachines, he has driven AI innovation. His functional expertise includes description logics, knowledge graphs, machine learning, natural language processing, deep learning for medical image processing, content and link analysis, consulting and research, organizational strategy formulation, and building AI teams and products. Dr. Manandhar has published over 150 papers, with an H-index of 33 and 7000+ citations. His work is accessible via Google Scholar and DBLP.

Sachin Udas

Business Development

Sachin Udas, with 15 years of experience in business development and networking and an MBA in Marketing from Kathmandu University, has worked in diverse sectors like advertising, white goods, mobile handsets, digital wallets, and cloud consulting. As a leader at MedaVonix, he uses his network, team skills, and business planning expertise to create strategic value for the organization and its clients.

Sachin emphasizes that customers now seek implementation partners who provide optimized solutions in technology, cost, and time. He believes AI will greatly enhance efficiency, and automation will transform many areas. In 10 years, the convergence of global innovations will make it hard to pinpoint how these advancements happened.

Suraj Prasai

Senior AI Engineer

Suraj Prasai is a Senior AI and ML engineer specializing in speech recognition and multimodal transformer architectures. He is dedicated to leveraging technology to address real-world challenges. His current projects include designing and testing custom architectures for speech, image, video, and text domains, and integrating AI in neurology to enhance vision for patients.

Santa Basnet

Senior AI Programmer

Dipesh Silwal

NLP Engineer

Dipesh Silwal is a dedicated Machine Learning and Deep Learning engineer driven by his core values: passion for his company and work, a thirst for knowledge, empowerment of others, and straightforward communication. These principles fuel his relentless pursuit of learning, making him a highly accelerated learner. With a solid foundation in engineering professionalism, Dipesh has spent the past year honing his ML skills, implementing models to enhance decision-making processes. He is deeply interested in exploring new use cases and opportunities to develop real-world applications using ML, deep learning, computer vision, NLP, and RNN.

Love Pant

AI Research Assistant

Love Pant is an AI Research Assistant with a background in robotics research and development. He has focused his research on transformer-based architectures, particularly in combining visual sequence information with sentence queries to retrieve moments in videos based on text inputs as part of his final year project. Currently, Love is engaged in enhancing and optimizing model architectures for diverse datasets that encompass a variety of domain activities, continually striving to push the boundaries of AI applications in real-world scenarios.

Yubraj Karki

Frontend Developer

Yubraj Karki is a passionate and hardworking self-taught software developer with a robust skill set in HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, React JS, and Tailwind CSS. He is also familiar with Next.js, TypeScript, and Java, and possesses proficiency in design tools such as Figma. Yubraj is dedicated to staying current with the latest developments in the field and enjoys collaborating with others to create innovative solutions. His curiosity drives him to explore how things work under the hood, whether it’s JavaScript or React.js, continually deepening his understanding and expertise.

Amit Himali

Backend Developer

Amit Himali is an innovative and solution-oriented web developer with a proven track record in optimizing web functionalities, implementing system improvements, and enhancing user experiences. He brings expertise in full-stack web development and excels in collaborative environments, adept at deploying critical projects with a keen focus on performance and security. Amit’s ability to deliver robust and efficient solutions underscores his commitment to advancing web technologies and driving impactful results.