2024 – present
MSc, Disaster Risk Engineering and Management
Institute of Engineering, Pulchowk Campus, Tribhuvan University
Bishal Bastola
Engineer, MoEWRI, Government of Nepal
Education
2024 – present
MA, Economics
Ratna Rajyalaxmi Campus, Tribhuvan University
2018–2023
BE, Civil Engineering
Institute of Engineering, Pulchowk Campus, Tribhuvan University
Distinction, 80.07%. Government of Nepal full merit scholarship (99.8 percentile, entrance examination). Thesis on climate change impacts on crop yield in Tulsipur, Dang, supervised by Prof. Dr. Vishnu Prasad Pandey.
Positions
Aug 2024 – present
Engineer
Ministry of Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation, Government of Nepal
Contributed to drafting the Water Resources Act and its Regulation. Technical support on transboundary rivers. Technical review of water resources and irrigation project files.
Jan 2024 – present
Instructor
Fast Track Engineering Institute, Kathmandu
Lok Sewa Aayog engineering service and NEC licence examination preparation.
2023
Intern
Kathmandu Valley Water Supply Management Board
2020–2023
Research Assistant
Institute of Engineering, Pulchowk Campus
Awards and fellowships
2023
Fusemachines AI Fellowship
Selected cohort for applied machine learning training.
2018
Government of Nepal full merit scholarship
Institute of Engineering, Tribhuvan University
Awarded on an entrance examination result in the 99.8th percentile.
2023
Graduated with distinction
BE Civil Engineering, 80.07%
Technical skills
Analysis
Python, R, Power BI
Time-series modelling, hydrological data processing, statistical analysis and reporting.
Spatial
QGIS, ArcGIS
Catchment delineation, hazard mapping, spatial joins for project screening.
Water
EPANET, AquaCrop
Distribution network modelling and crop-water simulation.
Design
AutoCAD, Civil 3D, ETABS
Drafting, corridor and grading design, structural analysis.
Planning
Primavera P6
Schedule development and progress tracking for public projects.
Service and other
Ongoing
Transboundary rivers
MoEWRI
Technical support to Nepal's standing mechanisms on shared rivers.
Ongoing
Free examination preparation material
YouTube
Worked past papers and revision notes for engineering service candidates.
Publications
2024
Implications of the NBC 105 revision on NBC 205
Bishal Bastola, et al.. Nepal Journal of Civil Engineering.
2024
Electric load prediction using a SARIMAX model
Bishal Bastola, et al.. Australian Journal of Electrical and Electronics Engineering.