Program Schedule

Theme and Topics

THEME #ANAIS2025  
Building the Future of Intelligence: From Foundations to Impact

TOPICS

Foundations & Core Methods

1. • Geometric Deep Learning (GDL)

   • Large Language Models (LLMs)

   • Relational Deep Learning (RDL)

   • Reasoning 

Agents & Autonomy

1. • LLM Agents 

   • Multimodal Agents 

   • Robot Agents 

Perception & Understanding

1. • Computer Vision 

AI for Society & Industry

1. • AI in Healthcare

   • AI in Agriculture 

   • AI in Finance

The 11-day school will start from 29th December, 2025, with a day of hiking on Jan 1.

• Lecture: 9:00 AM - 3:30 PM

• Lab: 4:00 PM -  6:00 PM

Poster Presentation Session

We are pleased to announce that this year’s program will feature a dedicated Poster Presentation Session, where participants can showcase their ongoing research and scholarly work. This session aims to promote knowledge exchange, encourage idea-sharing, and provide valuable feedback from mentors, peers, and fellow researchers. 

Selected presenters had the opportunity to display their research during the Poster Presentation Session, followed by interactive discussions.

List of Presented Posters

The following 17 posters were presented during the Poster Presentation Session.

1. Adiabatic Reinforcement Learning

2. AI-driven System For Post-disaster Agricultural Damage Assessment

3. An AI-Enabled IoT Framework for Forest Fire Detection and Alerting with Hybrid Connectivity

4. Beyond SMOTE: Improving Credit Card Fraud Detection on Imbalanced Data with Conditional GANs and XGBoost

5. Deep Learning–Based Disease Detection in Cauliflower Using YOLOv8

6. Evaluating In-domain Transfer Learning for Hippocampus Segmentation in T1-weighted MR Images

7. FLDWM: A world model approach for de novo molecule generation

8. Gradient Optimisation Algorithms for (L0-L1)-smooth Functions => Best Theoretical Poster

9. Learning Forecast Bias: Climate Offset Correction Using NASA Reanalysis and Sparse Station Data in Nepal

10. MathPrereq: Dynamic Prerequisite Knowledge Identification using Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs in Foundational Mathematics

11. Multi-stream Physics Hybrid Networks for solving Navier-Stokes equations

12. NepScript Genesis: Neural Architecture Search for Devanagari Handwritten Digit Synthesis

13. SiDGen: Structure-informed Diffusion for Generative Modelling of Ligands for Proteins

14. SigTem: A Non-Invertible Technique for Online Signature Template Protection => Best Application Poster

15. Stage-aware Crop Advisory System With Adaptive Cropping Calendar Adjustment

16. Swarlekha: Auto-regressive Zero-shot Bilingual Voice Cloning and Text-to-speech model

17. Towards Nepali-language LLMs: Efficient GPT training with a Nepali BPE tokeniser

Ideathon Session

The ideathon is designed to foster networking, encourage collaborative thinking, promote innovation, and support the practical application of AI to real-world problems. Participants will work in groups to discuss and propose AI-based project ideas.

The ideathon focuses on AI research or application-oriented projects, emphasising problem relevance, innovation, feasibility, and potential social or industrial impact. Participants are encouraged to actively engage, collaborate with mentors, and make the most of this learning opportunity.

Ideathon Schedule & Format

📅 Session 1: 31 December — Ideathon Discussion

• Group assignment

• Initial meeting with group members

📅 Session 2: 7 January — Project Brainstorming & Pitch Preparation

• Group brainstorming and idea development

• Mentoring sessions with Research Assistants from NAAMII

• Finalisation of the project idea

• Preparation of a short pitch presentation (3–4 slides)

📅 Session 3: 8 January — Final Project Idea Pitch

• Project idea presentations by each group

• ⏱ Pitch duration: 4 minutes per group

List of Presented Ideas

The following AI-based project ideas were presented during the Final Project Idea Pitch Session.

1. RecallAI: Memory Assistance Using Smart Glasses

2. Two Sigma & Learning Modelling

3. AI-Based Modelling, Estimation, and Forecasting Ice Melt over the Himalayas

4. AHEAD: Anticipating Haemorrhage Evolution for Acute Decision-making

5. AI for Early Colorectal Cancer Detection

6. SAMYAK: Scalable Agent for Multilingual Yield & Automated Knowledge

7. Nexus: The Trust-Graph for Continuous Innovation

8. KisaanScore: AI-Powered Farmer Productivity Monitoring & Alternative Credit Scoring => First Runner-Up

9. vAnI: Giving Every Nepali Child a Voice

10. Apiary Guardian

11. GNN-Based Distributed Multi-Agent RL for Traffic Optimisation

12. Discriminating Realistic and Realisable Synthetic Medical Image

13. Legal Intelligence For Global Travellers => Second Runner-Up

14. AutoPentest: The Autonomous & Trustworthy Security Agent

15. aSync AI-driven Auditory Assistive Tool for Level 1 & 2 Autism

16. SEAL: Can AI learn?

17. Explain-Adapt Agent: Building Trustworthy AI Through Transparency

18. Addressing Misinformation: An AI-Driven Approach

19. MATCARE: Care, where it’s needed most

20. DEKHO: Real-Time Monocular Navigation System => Winner

21. CareConnect: Your healthcare at home, instantly

22. Monitoring Glacier Lakes: Saving Lives

23. Digital Twin-Driven Microgrid Optimisation

24. AI-powered Real-time Voice and Text to Braille Communication System

Program and video links 

The program from the 2018 ANAIS Winter Edition is available here.
The program from the 2019 ANAIS Winter Edition is available here.
The program from the 2021 ANAIS Winter Edition is available here.

The program from the 2023 ANAIS Spring Edition is available here.

The program from the 2024 ANAIS Winter Edition is available here.

The video recordings from the 2021 ANAIS Winter Edition are available here.

The video recordings from the 2018 ANAIS Winter Edition are available here.