Board of Directors

Board of Directors (37) (Effective July 1, 2026, for 2 years)

Executive Committee (12):

  • President and Chair of BOD: Ananda Paudel, PhD

  • Vice President: Ranjan Pokharel, MS, Principal Database Administrator at Yahoo

  • General Secretary: Pratibha Phuyal, ME, Director – Digital Science at Molex

  • Joint Secretary: Amit Neupane, Geotechnical Project Engineer at SaLUT

  • Treasurer: Utsab Pokharel, MS, Principal Engineer at New Jersey DOT

  • Information Secretary: Roshan Bhattarai, Full Stack Java Developer at Lumen Technologies

  • Immediate Past President (Ex-Official): Mangal Maharjan, ME, Senior Design Engineer at EDF Renouvelables

  • Members-at-Large:

      • Samir Rawal, MBA (TX), Vice President at Ace GeoDrilling

      • Tikajit Rai PhD (VA), Adjunct Faculty Member

      • Suroj Lamichhane (CO), Senior Principal Engineer at Northrop Grumman

      • Nitesh Pant (IL), Lead Cybersecurity Engineer

      • Rabin Dhakal PhD (NC), Senior Research Engineer (V)

 Directors: 

  • Abdul Ansari (TX) – Product Manager
  • Bijaya Paudyal (NC) – Senior Technical Leader
  • Bikash Adhikari (MD) – Geotechnical Project Engineer
  • Bishal Khadka (DC) – Structure Engineer
  • Deependra Pokharel (VA) – Electronics Engineer
  • Jagadish Raut (NY) – New York DOT
  • Jitendra Khatri (CA) – Substation Design Engineer
  • Jitendra Shah (MD) – Architect – Software
  • Kishor Shrestha, PhD (WA) – Associate Professor
  • Manoj Baniya (GA) – Senior Bridge Inspector
  • Narayan Baral (NY) – Project Manager
  • Nav Paneru (NC) – Structure Engineer
  • Nirajan Mani (MA) – Professor & Department Chair at Fitchburg State University
  • Rabin Bhattarai, PhD (IL) – Professor
  • Rajendra Shrestha PhD (TX) – Consulting Geophysicist
  • Rajesh Bhatt (IL) – Water Resources Engineer
  • Rajesh Kaphle (IN) – Transportation Engineer
  • Raju Joshee (MD) – CEO & Co-Founder at idaxis.ai
  • Ripendra Awal, PhD (TX) – Professor
  • Sajag Paudel (IL) – Staff Scientist
  • Shubha Adhikari (VA) – Urban/Transportation Planner
  • Siddha Raj Joshi (NY) – Professional Engineer
  • Sudeep Sapkota (NC) – Executive Director
  • Sushil Kanel, PhD (OH) – Senior Research Scientist
  • Thakur Dhakal, PE (VA) – Engineer IV – Fairfax County

Past Presidents:
Surya Thapa, PE                        (2022 – 2024)
Thakur P. Dhakal, PE                 (2020 – 2022)
Upendra L. Karna, PhD              (2018 – 2020) 
Jagannath  Ghimire, PE             (2016 – 2018)
Rajendra K. Shrestha, PhD        (2012 – 2016)
Ramesh B. Malla, PhD               (2007 – 2012, Founder)

 

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