Subash Sigdel

Subash Sigdel

Reinforcement Learning · Computer Vision

I want to build systems that can see, understand, and act in the physical world. My research sits at the intersection of perception and decision-making, with a broad interest in spatial intelligence — how will machines understand, reason about, and interact with physical space.
Currently I am exploring how Vision Language Models can be grounded in physical action, enabling machines to semantically understand their environment and respond to natural language with physical gestures.

WiP: DeerSense: Oh Deer, We Know What You Do! Deterrence-Aware Deer Behavior Recognition

Dharmendra Singh Chaudhary, Subash Sigdel, Snehalraj Chugh, Shubham Thapa, Samyam Sapkota, Samuel Dupont, Bipendra Basnyat, Travis Gallo, Nirupam Roy, Anuradha Ravi, Nirmalya Roy

ACM MobiCom 2026

Segment Anything but Farms: Comparing Segmentation Paradigms for Rural UAV Captured Ultra-High-Resolution Imagery

Snehalraj Chugh, Dharmendra Singh Chaudhary, Subash Sigdel, Shubham Thapa, Lalit BC, Nishan Ghimire, Bipendra Basnyat, Nirmalya Roy

WACV 2026 Workshop · GeoCV

Oct 2026 – Present

Master of Science, Research in Computer and Systems Engineering

Technische Universität Ilmenau

Dec 2021 – May 2025

Bachelor of Information Technology, Computer Science

Lincoln University College

Aug 2018 – May 2020

+2, Computer Science

St. Lawrence College

Nov 2025 – Present

NAAMII

NepAl Applied Mathematics and Informatics Institute for Research

Research Assistant Feb 2026 – Present
  • Research Assistant at A² Lab under the supervision of Dr. Bipendra Basnyat
Teaching Assistant Jan 2026 · 1 mo
  • Teaching Assistant at the Sixth Annual Nepal AI School
Nepal AI School
Sixth Annual Nepal AI School
Teaching Assistant
Research Intern Nov 2025 – Jan 2026 · 3 mos
  • Contributed to research on segmentation paradigms for rural UAV-captured imagery
WACV Paper
Segment Anything but Farms
WACV 2026 Workshop · GeoCV
Jan 2023 – Apr 2023

AI Engineer Intern

Telemus AI

May 2022 – Nov 2022

Research & Development Intern

Robotics Association of Nepal

Personal

InMoov — Open-Source Humanoid Robot

🔬 Ongoing

Building and programming the InMoov humanoid robot as a research platform. Currently the robot accepts natural language voice commands and executes a set of physical actions. The ongoing research direction extends this further — integrating Vision Language Models so the robot can semantically understand its visual environment and physically point toward named objects on demand, e.g., "Where is the door?" — a step toward grounded spatial intelligence in embodied systems.

Subash Sigdel, Ram Tamang

Mentored by Muni Bahadur Shakya — Nepal's first computer scientist & pioneer

Python · ROS · OpenCV · Arduino · 3D Printing · Sensors · LLMs · VLMs

Person-following rover

Rover — Person-Following Robot

Personal Project

A skid-steer rover that finds a person and drives after them, fully offline. A Raspberry Pi 3 runs YOLO11n on a USB webcam feed, estimates distance from the bounding-box width with a calibrated pinhole constant, and turns it into throttle and steering; an ESP32 converts those commands into motor PWM behind a 500 ms watchdog.

Python · Raspberry Pi · ESP32 · YOLO11n · ONNX · OpenCV

Traffic Prediction

Traffic Prediction & Signal Control

University Project

Smart traffic management system using real-time data and AI to predict congestion and dynamically optimize signal timings — reducing wait times and emissions.

Python · OpenCV · Flask · TensorFlow

Group

PadhaiSathi

PadhaiSathi — For Visually Impaired Students

🏆 Hackathon Winner

AI-powered assistive webapp helping visually impaired students read and navigate content through audio feedback using OCR and text-to-speech.

Subash Sigdel, Zidan Rai, Arik Rai, Nima Tamang, Jiten Rai

Python · OCR · gTTS

Park Me

Park Me

🏆 Hackathon Winner

Smart parking system that helps users locate the nearest available parking spot in real time via a webapp interface.

Subash Sigdel, Ram Tamang, Nischal Tamang, Sadhana Sapkota

Django · HTML · CSS

Advance Agro

Advance Agro

Hackathon

Smart agriculture assistant using soil sensors and weather APIs to recommend real-time irrigation and fertilizer plans for farmers.

Subash Sigdel, Ram Tamang, Abhay Mandal

Arduino · Sensors · Flask · ML