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Kamana Kafle

Jonesboro, AR, USA

Research Assistant, Sustainability and Environmental Engineering Projects
Zhang Chiqian Lab | College of Engineering
2024-Present
2018 – 2022
Oct 2025 – Present
• Evaluated peracetic acid (PAA) as a sustainable disinfectant for municipal water systems, executing 50+ experimental trials, managing the resulting
water quality dataset, and contributing analysis that supported the validation of a key alternative treatment method.
• Engineered value-added products from rice hulls using solar-driven processes, assisting in the design of zero-waste protocols and analyzing material
efficiency data to advance a core sustainability research initiative.
• Structured and validated experimental data for 2+ concurrent research projects on water treatment and agricultural byproducts, performing
preliminary statistical analysis and collaborating across 3+ engineering disciplines to standardize findings for publication.
Graduate Assistant and GIS Instructor Support
Arkansas State University | Jonesboro, AR
Aug 2024 – Dec 2025
• Orchestrated instructional support for 50+ students per semester in Geospatial Data Applications, managing all lab sessions, grading 10+
assignments, and resolving 95%+ of technical issues within 24 hours, ensuring seamless course delivery and continuous student progress.
• Mentored 20+ students weekly on advanced cartography, spatial analysis, and database structures, providing targeted support that contributed to
a 15% average increase in scores on technical map deliverables and helped 100% of struggling students pass the course.
• Streamlined course operations by developing 15+ standardized GIS workspaces and 50+ curated datasets, reducing student setup time by 30%, and
implemented a QC protocol for 200+ map submissions to ensure cartographic accuracy and 100% reproducibility.
Lead and Agriculture Program Coordinator
Kamana Agriculture Solutions and Research Centre | Kathmandu
Oct 2021 – Jul 2024
• Led a team of 13 researchers in precision agriculture field trials and data analysis, developing solutions that contributed to a 25% increase in farm
productivity for smallholder farmers in target regions.
• Designed and implemented community programs that trained 500+ farmers in soil health and regenerative practices (reducing input costs by
25%), assisted 15 farmers in securing grants (increasing funding access by 40%), and connected 300+ unbanked farmers to formal banking and
credit systems.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
ArcGIS Pro | Remote Sensing | Data Visualization | Image Interpretation | Raster and Vector Analysis | Statistical Analysis | Experimental Design |
Agricultural Data Processing | R | Pix4D | SAS

Kamana Kafle

Posted 2026-01-22 under Geospatial