Anju Chhetri | अन्जु क्षेत्री

Last Updated: 2026-10-3

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About

Hello, my name is Anju Chhetri.

I am currently a Master's student at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany. I am also a founding team member and Co-operation Lead at AI Safety Nepal, an organization established to advance AI safety research and foster a community of AI safety practitioners in Nepal.

Before joining TUM, I completed my engineering degree at Pulchowk Campus, Institute of Engineering, Tribhuvan University, Nepal. I also worked as a research assistant at the Multimodal Learning Lab at NAAMII for two years, having previously worked there as an undergraduate research intern for one year.

My current research interests focus on building more robust and reliable machine learning models. More broadly, I am interested in understanding the inner workings of machine learning systems.

When I am not working on research, I enjoy being surrounded by nature and often go hiking. I also find peace in painting and playing my ukulele. Reading is a newer hobby of mine.

News

Selected publications

Preprint

When Confidence Lacks Concepts: Interpretable OOD Detection via Representation Perturbations

Anju Chhetri, Pratik Shrestha, Ramesh Rana, Sam Philip, Prashnna Gyawali, Binod Bhattarai

preprint, 2026

MICCAI

NERO: Explainable Out-of-Distribution Detection with Neuron-level Relevance

Anju Chhetri, Jari Korhonen, Prashnna Gyawali, Binod Bhattarai

Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2025

Scholarships and Awards

Award/Scholarship Awarded By Year
Category Winner (Innovative), Nepal-US Hackathon Nepali Leaders Network March 2026
Mentee, Women Leaders Mentorship Programme (4.4% acceptance rate) EU in Nepal, Mentor: H.E. Veronique Lorenzo, EU Ambassador to Nepal December 2024–October 2025
5th Place, Pixel-level Task, Medical Out-of-Distribution Analysis Challenge MICCAI 2024 October 2024
2nd Runner Up - Hacking for Humanity 2023 Shequal Foundation Februrary 2023
Winner - Gritfeat AI Health Hackathon Gritfeat January 2023
Winner - Ace Ignite Ace Institute of Management November 2022
2nd Runner Up - ABU Robocon ABU Asia-Pacific Robot Contest (ABU Robocon) August 2022
Selected Participant - GitHub Field Day Nepal GitHub Education June 2022
Full scholarship recipient of NAAMII Winter School of AI, 2021 NepAl Applied Mathematics and Informatics Institute December 2021
Mahatma Gandhi Scholarship Embassy of India 2017-2018
Awarded Paramount Gold Medal Paramount Boarding Higher Secondary School 2018