I am a Ph.D. Candidate in Geotechnical Engineering at the University of British Columbia. My research focuses on designing geo-hazard mitigations and improving resilience in areas susceptible to manageable landslides.
Since the 2015 Gorkha earthquake (7.8 Mw), I have been researching rainfall and earthquake-triggered landslide hazards and their interaction with critical infrastructure in Nepal. Recently, we developed a nationwide multi-temporal landslide inventory for Nepal using optical remote sensing. I am building upon this dataset to explore planning and design decision support systems for disaster risk reduction in the region.
My doctoral research is based in western Canada, where I study debris flows that occur in burnt watersheds, particularly in the first few years after a wildfire. My goal is to investigate the general rules governing post-wildfire debris flow transport and deposition, which can be used to develop guidelines for designing small-scale terrain modifications such as deflection berms, retention basins, and culverts to protect communities and linear infrastructure.
The 4TU Young Resilience Fellowship has enabled me to collaborate with Professor Nazli Aydin and Professor Şebnem Düzgün. We are assessing the resilience of rural hill-road networks in central Nepal and exploring ideas to improve network resilience.