Our Mission
Connect curious minds to learn, build and share AI research.
AI-Driven Hub for Advanced Youth and Academic Networking
Where Curiosity Meets Innovation.
ADHAYAN is a youth-driven academic network built to connect curious minds, expand access to meaningful learning, and turn ideas into action.
Inspired by Sx3c AI and Data House in Nepal. Our history
- Cofounders
- 10
- Countries
- 9
- Initiative started
- May 2026
- By building projects
If you want to build cool projects, join us.
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An organization for learning in action
ADHAYAN is a youth-driven academic network built to connect curious minds, expand access to meaningful learning, and turn ideas into action.
We bring together students, educators, researchers, and organizations to learn beyond the classroom through academic communities, competitions, research, mentorship, and collaboration.
From discovering a new field to building something of your own, ADHAYAN creates the space, connections, and opportunities for young people to explore, create, and grow.
Our Vision
A global community growing through mentorship and collaboration.
What we stand for
- International research collaboration
- Knowledge sharing
- Capacity building
- Global community development
Selected work
Featured projects
Robotics
Spatial_Preception
Research comparing imitation learning and deep reinforcement learning for autonomous robot navigation and obstacle avoidance.
PythonPyTorchNumPy
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Computer Vision
Image-Segmentation-Naterida
U-Net terrain segmentation for agricultural robots, with automated training labels generated by GroundingDINO and SAM.
PythonU-NetGroundingDINO
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Robotics
NATERIDA
A modular exploration architecture combining cognition, spatial awareness, and data analytics for autonomous reasoning.
Machine LearningComputer VisionData Analytics
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Cybersecurity
CYPHEX
Headless ESP32 firmware for WiFi and Bluetooth security testing, controlled through Serial, BLE, or WiFi.
C++ESP32PlatformIO
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AI Security
Guardrailer
Prompt injection detection research combining hybrid vector search, multiple scoring signals, and contextual LLM evaluation.
PythonRAGQdrant
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Robotics
PROJECT JERRY — Robot Companion
An ESP32 robot prototype with a photo-derived FreeCAD model, ROS 2/Gazebo simulation, local speech and vision, SLAM mapping and bounded autonomous...
PythonESP32FreeCAD
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AI Applications
NeatRaw — AI Spreadsheet Analysis
An AI-assisted spreadsheet sharing platform with interactive data views, charts and natural-language questions about uploaded data.
TypeScriptNext.jsSupabase
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Natural Language Processing
SATA — Emotion Classification
A RoBERTa-based English emotion classifier fine-tuned with PyTorch and published with model and tokenizer assets for Hugging Face use.
PythonPyTorchRoBERTa
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Mathematics
Math Auction System
A real-time mathematics competition platform for teams to bid on problems, with administration, contestant bidding and public leaderboard views.
TypeScriptReactConvex
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Machine Learning
Shipping Cost Predictor
An educational Random Forest regression project exploring shipping estimates from package measurements, distance, speed and volumetric weight.
Pythonscikit-learnRandom Forest
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Deep Learning
Transformer from First Principles
A small GPT-style Transformer implemented in NumPy, with handwritten forward and backward passes, numerical gradient checks and character-level...
PythonNumPyMatplotlib
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Mathematics & Algorithms
VECTOR — Pathfinding & Decision Engine
An experimental framework comparing BFS, DFS, Dijkstra, A* and Greedy Best-First Search on identical grid environments, with benchmarks and visualizations.
PythonNumPyMatplotlib
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Thinking out loud
Blogs & research
AI Ethics
When AI Is Everywhere, What Should We Ask?
A fictional town explores AI adoption, showing how access, energy and accountability shape everyday outcomes.
Kavindi Fernando
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Emerging Technologies
Small Models, Big Possibilities: Edge AI
An offline field sensor explains why useful AI can be small, local and designed around real hardware limits.
Raphael Laurent
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Robotics
How Do Robots Learn to Walk?
Follow a robot from simulated falls to careful real-world steps, where mechanics matters as much as software.
Mahira Khan
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The people behind it
Meet the cofounders
Prashanna Tiwari
Co-Founder
Nepal
Pitambar Lamichhane
Co-Founder
Nepal
Shaidozzaman Araf
Co-Founder
Bangladesh
Andrii Bilan
Co-Founder
Ukraine
From the organization
Latest news
Announcements, milestones and updates from the organization.
All announcementsCommunity Learning
Nov 10, 2026
Inside the Transformer: ADHAYAN’s Global AI Learning Session
Participants from around the globe joined ADHAYAN to explore Transformer architecture, self-attention and positional encoding in an...
Competition Announcement
Oct 12, 2026
Weekly competition 2 | Teach Dmytro to read
ADHAYAN announces weekly competition #2 by Andrii Bilan.
Announcement
Aug 24, 2026
Session Conduction among Students of NIST college
Led an interactive research workshop today with the NSS Club at National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST), where Prashanna...
Take part
Upcoming events & competitions
Upcoming
Competition
ADHAYAN Weekly Competition 2 — Teach Dmytro to read
Weekly competition #2 created by Andrii Bilan, national head of Ukraine.
Online
Upcoming
Competition
Indus Babel | ADHAYAN Weekly Competition #3
Decode multi-script South Asian text, handle severe Unicode noise, and classify unlabelled regional dialects in this NLP challenge.
Online
Join our initiative
Bring your curiosity.
ADHAYAN is built by students, educators and researchers who want to learn beyond the classroom. Follow our official channels to see open initiatives, competitions and collaboration calls.