Resume

9 Years of Experience

Education

July 2022
University of South Dakota

Ph.D.

Dissertation: “Photophysical, Electrochemical, and Catalytic Studies of Anthraquinone and Pyridoxyl-based Sensors and Development of Ruthenium Photosensitizers.”
Advisor: Dr. Andrew G. Sykes

December 2019
University of South Dakota

M.S.

Thesis: “The Fluorometric Detection of Metal Cations Using Internal Imine Derivatives of Anthraquinone-18-crown-5.”
Advisor: Dr. Andrew G. Sykes

July 2014
Tribhuvan University

M.S.

Thesis: “Phytochemical and antimicrobial screening of Rauvolfia serpentina (Linn.) Benth. ex Kurz and Tamarindus indica Linn., and chemical investigation of the root of Rauvolfia serpentina by GC-MS analysis.”
Advisor: Dr. Pradeep Bahadur Neupane and Dr. Ram Narayan Jha

July 2009
Tribhuvan University

B.S.

  • Completed Graduation in Science, majoring in Chemistry.
  • Subject studied: Biology, Zoology, Chemistry, and Research and Techniques

Experiences

2017 - 2022
Dr. Sykes Lab, University of South Dakota

Graduate Research Assistant

  • Responsible for lab maintenance and safety practices, handling hazardous chemicals, maintaining inventories, purchasing chemicals, and so on.
  • Designed and developed several novel organic and organometallic materials for live-cell imaging, catalysis, and photosensitizers application.
  • Developed an electrochemical method for deoxygenation reactions and analyzed the products with several analytical techniques such as atomic absorption spectroscopy (AAS), Single-Crystal XRD, NMR, IR, UV-Vis, Fluorescence, GC-MS, and ESI-MS spectroscopy.
  • Voluntarily served as a teaching assistant to teach in organic chemistry laboratories.
2014-2017
Several Online Platforms

Chemistry and Math Tutor

  • Several online platforms such as Got-It Al, Yup.com, and Socratic.org.
  • NAME Institute, MBBS Entrance preparation – Kathmandu, Nepal.

Trainings

March 2022
University of South Dakota

President’s Senior Leadership Institute

May 2020
LinkedIn Online Study

Programming Foundations: Beyond the Fundamentals

April 2019
University of South Dakota

Environmental Health and Safety Chemical Hygiene Certification

Awards

Fall 2022
University of South Dakota

Graduate Research and Creative Scholarship Grant

Presented in the Idea Fest 2022

September 2019
American Chemical Society

1 st Place Graduate Research Award

American Chemical Society’s 2019 Symposium & Poster Session

Synthesis Skills

Organic Synthesis

95%

Organometallic Synthesis

90%

Purification

90%

Crystallization

87%

Crystallographic Skills

Molecular Structure Determination

95%

APEX II/APEX III

95%

SHELXL

96%

Olex2

80%

WinGX/Ortep3/Platon

95%

Mercury

96%

Instrument Skills

Bruker AXS Smart Apex CCD

95%

Bruker D8 Venture

93%

Bruker Alpha FT-IR spectrometer

97%

Bruker Ascend™ 400 MHz

95%

Shimadzu GCMS-QP2010 SE

85%

Rigaku Ultima IV X-ray Diffractometer

85%

Varian Cary 50 Bio UV-Vis spectrometer

90%

Varian 500-MS Ion Trap Mass spectrometer

90%

Horiba Fluoromax-4

95%

Photon Technology International (PTI) steady-state spectrofluorometer

95%

Software/Other Skills

MS Office

93%

Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator

85%

Web Design/Development

87%

HTML/CSS/SSL

91%

Photography

84%