Jeevan Chapagain

Jeevan Chapagain is a 4th year Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science at The University of Memphis under the supervision of Dr. Vasile Rus in the Langauge and Information Processing (LIPS) lab.

His research interests are in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP), Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence in Education, Intelligent Tutoring System and Data Science. His current research focuses on developing new techniques that helps to automatically assess the students self-explanation/response during source code comprehension whose greater goal is to develop an dialogue based Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) for source code comprehension.

Apart from his main research, he also focuses on developing new models and tools in NLP for resource poor language like Nepali. He completed his Bachelors degree from Tribhuvan University, Institute of Science and Technology in Computer Science and Information Technology.

During his free time, he is interested in outdoor activities like Soccer ⚽, Hiking 🥾 , Fishing 🎣 and Camping 🏕️.