NAAMII (NepAl Applied Mathematics and Informatics Institute for research) is a Multi-disciplinary AI Center of Excellence (profit not distributing) founded by Nepali researchers with the mission of building a self-sustaining ecosystem that advances the frontiers of AI research, develops world-class talent, and drives innovation to solve high-impact problems in emerging economies.
Through research, education & outreach, and industry-driven innovation, we push the boundaries of AI to tackle pressing challenges, democratize access, and improve lives globally.
The world is in a period of extraordinary technological change: one that, unlike previous waves, carries the genuine potential for low- and middle-income countries to not just receive these advances, but to shape them.
And yet the populations that represent 85% of the world remain largely absent from the conversations shaping where the field goes next, their languages barely present in existing datasets, their most pressing problems underrepresented in the scientific literature.
The founders of NAAMII believed that closing this gap requires both scientific excellence and local relevance: that the most high-impact problems in global health, language access, or climate resilience are also among the most scientifically interesting problems of our time.
This was the conviction that birthed NAAMII.
We advance global scientific progress through multidisciplinary research across computer vision, NLP, healthcare AI, computational genomics, climate systems, and the social dimensions of AI. We publish annually in leading venues, and measure our work by whether it reaches the people it was meant to serve.
We build capacity for people to work in and shape an AI-driven world, through workshops, training programs, research mentorship, and our flagship Annual Nepal AI School (ANAIS), preparing a generation who ask questions, think critically, and are doers, not just consumers.
We enable tech transfer through R&D partnerships and startup incubation, translating discoveries into equitable value and generating the resources to sustain the ecosystem: research driving new ventures, ventures enabling more research, education producing the talent that drives both.
As one founder articulated the deeper motivation:
“For any rational mind, thinking, worrying, or blaming has no meaning. Acting, in any way possible, is the only way to show you truly care. I want NAAMII to be a symbol that we care, and to set an example for dreamers, even in tough circumstances.”
We call ourselves a center of excellence not as a title, but as a standard we hold ourselves to. Excellence, for us, means research rigorous enough to stand anywhere in the world, education that genuinely changes what people are capable of, and innovation that reaches the people it was built for. That is what we are working toward, and what we want NAAMII to be a symbol of.
