About Guest: 

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 Tara Sigdel, PhD. is an associate professor of Biochemistry at the University of California, San Francisco.  

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 Sanjib Lamichhane 

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Timestamp: 

00:00 - Intro

 04:00 - About Guest

 06:00 - Biomedical Engineering and Biochemistry 

11:00 - Publishing Research Papers 

14:00 - Independent Research 

20:30 - Graduate School Application       

24:33 - Developing Research-Oriented Mindset in Nepal       

29:29 - NIRI community       

33:59 - Handling Intellectual Properties       

35:30 - Diaspora as global ambassador   

41:34 - How to get out of the donation trap?        

49:50 - Second-generation Nepali in the US        

56:02 - How was it a wise decision to come to the US?    

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About Guests:  ---- Kailash Panta, Pawan Shrestha, and Sunil Khada are engineering students at IOE Pulchowk Campus in Nepal.  In this episode, I talked with three engineering students at IOE Pulchowk Campus in Nepal about the robotics culture in Nepal. Their team recently beat India's teams - A and B in the ROBOCON competition and secured the third position.  About Host:  ------ Sanjib Lamichhane  Send me a message: https://bit.ly/3cbxj2q  ------------ ------------ Download Audio Podcast: Download givingBack Podcast wherever you get your podcasts.  Apple Podcast: https://apple.co/3ACuvoj   Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/473BXym...  ----- Please drop a comment telling us how you like the podcast. You can let us know how we can make it better for you and even suggest new topics you’d like to be discussed or even better -- suggest a guest!  Hmm.. not feeling like dropping a comment. Here's an anonymous survey you can fill out. We do not need your name and email.  https://bit.ly/3ADfOBq ===  Thanks for supporting us. Subscribe to us whenever you get your podcast. Visit www.givingBack.ai for more information. ===

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Rajendra Adhikari, Ph.D. was born and raised in the staff quarters of the National Electricity Authority(NEA) of the Devighat Hydropower plant in Nuwakot, Nepal. He often visited the hydropower plant location during his childhood with his father, who used to repair electric motors and machines. Having been introduced to the power generating mechanisms early on, he pursued a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering at the Institute of Engineering (IOE) Pulchowk Nepal and earned a graduate degree and a Ph.D. from Virginia Tech University, USA focusing on an algorithmic approach to control demand response of residential Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning(HVAC) systems. Currently, he works as a researcher and software engineer for the Residential Buildings Research Group at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory(NREL). His works involve building innovative home-controlling software technologies. 

Rajendra loves learning about new technologies and building new software for fun. He enjoys playing Age of Empires(AOE2.

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Timestamp:

00:00 - Intro

02:24 - Pulchowk Campus and Brain drain

05:36 - Ph.D. in Controlling HVAC Systems

12:56 - Interesting Electrical Engineering Sub-domains

15:49 - Software in Electrical Engineering

22:41 - Power Systems

29:18 - Generating Electricity

32:38 - Work Cultures in USA vs Nepal

36:47 - Software Controlled Power Systems

41:27 - Learning Approaches

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