ANAIS 2026 Program Schedule to be live soon.

Theme and Topics

1. • Foundational concepts in ML

   • Geometric Deep Learning (GDL)

   • Neuro-symbolic AI

   • World Models

   • Generative Modeling

   • Applications of AI in healthcare, finance, agriculture, and more)

The 11-day school will start on 28th December, 2026, with a day of hiking on 1st January 2027.

• Daily Schedule: 08:30 to 18:00

• Lectures (~ 45 hrs)

• Hands-on Practical Labs (~ 12 hrs)

• Poster Presentation

• Project Sessions

• Lunch Break: 1 hour 30 minutes

• Tea Breaks: Two 30-minute breaks

• Total Instructional Time: Approximately 7 hours per day

Poster Presentation Session

The program will also feature a dedicated Poster Presentation Session, providing participants with an opportunity to showcase their ongoing research and scholarly work. The session is designed to promote knowledge exchange, encourage idea sharing, and provide constructive feedback from mentors, peers, and fellow researchers.

Selected participants will be invited to present their work through posters, followed by interactive discussions and networking opportunities.

The Poster Presentation Session is open only to registered ANAIS participants. Details regarding poster submission, selection, and presentation guidelines will be provided during the registration process.

List of Presented Posters Last Year

The following 17 posters were presented during the Poster Presentation Session.

1. Adiabatic Reinforcement Learning

2. AI-driven System For Post-disaster Agricultural Damage Assessment

3. An AI-Enabled IoT Framework for Forest Fire Detection and Alerting with Hybrid Connectivity

4. Beyond SMOTE: Improving Credit Card Fraud Detection on Imbalanced Data with Conditional GANs and XGBoost

5. Deep Learning–Based Disease Detection in Cauliflower Using YOLOv8

6. Evaluating In-domain Transfer Learning for Hippocampus Segmentation in T1-weighted MR Images

7. FLDWM: A world model approach for de novo molecule generation

8. Gradient Optimisation Algorithms for (L0-L1)-smooth Functions => Best Theoretical Poster

9. Learning Forecast Bias: Climate Offset Correction Using NASA Reanalysis and Sparse Station Data in Nepal

10. MathPrereq: Dynamic Prerequisite Knowledge Identification using Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs in Foundational Mathematics

11. Multi-stream Physics Hybrid Networks for solving Navier-Stokes equations

12. NepScript Genesis: Neural Architecture Search for Devanagari Handwritten Digit Synthesis

13. SiDGen: Structure-informed Diffusion for Generative Modelling of Ligands for Proteins

14. SigTem: A Non-Invertible Technique for Online Signature Template Protection => Best Application Poster

15. Stage-aware Crop Advisory System With Adaptive Cropping Calendar Adjustment

16. Swarlekha: Auto-regressive Zero-shot Bilingual Voice Cloning and Text-to-speech model

17. Towards Nepali-language LLMs: Efficient GPT training with a Nepali BPE tokeniser

Project Sessions

The Project Session encourages networking, collaborative thinking, innovation, and the practical application of AI to real-world challenges. Participants will work in groups to discuss, develop, and propose AI-based project ideas.

Projects may focus on AI research or practical applications, with emphasis on problem relevance, innovation, feasibility, and potential social or industrial impact. Participants are encouraged to collaborate actively with their teammates and mentors and make the most of this opportunity for hands-on learning, idea development, and networking.

More details about the format and activities of the Project Session will be provided later.

Program and video links 

The program from the 2018 ANAIS Winter Edition is available here.
The program from the 2019 ANAIS Winter Edition is available here.
The program from the 2021 ANAIS Winter Edition is available here.

The program from the 2023 ANAIS Spring Edition is available here.

The program from the 2024 ANAIS Winter Edition is available here.

The program from the 2025 ANAIS Winter Edition is available here.

The video recordings from the 2021 ANAIS Winter Edition are available here.

The video recordings from the 2018 ANAIS Winter Edition are available here.