Biography

Dr. Shrestha was born to Prof. Kalidas Shrestha and Mrs. Kamala Maiya Joshi in Kathmandu, Nepal. He earned a Ph.D. degree in 1995 from the University of Missouri-Rolla (UMR) for developing a Monte Carlo algorithm to model Photon Transport in a semiconductor. His research interests include particle transport, pattern recognition, feature extraction and identification, and Medical applications.

He has been teaching various courses in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Missouri University of Science and Technology for twenty eight years continuously (as of 2023), where he has been working on developing algorithms to help detect skin cancer in its early stages by performing image analysis of skin legions for which he and his research colleagues have been rewarded a US patent. He is in the process of developing an inference engine which inputs a lesion image and outputs a recommendation for its remedy.

Disciplines

Semiconductor Physics, Statistical Physics, Electronics, Circuits, Electromagnetics, Communication Systems, Control Systems, Photonics, Neutronics, Power Systems, Shielding, Radiation Physics, Nuclear Medicine, Reactor Physics, Nuclear Fuel Cycle

Courses Taught at S&T

EE (392) – Senior Design Project (II) – recoded EE 4097

EE (283) – Electronics for Instrumentation

EE (282) – Electronic Circuits and Machines

EE (281) – Electrical Circuits – recoded as EE 2800

EE (275) – Electromagnetics – recoded EE 3600

EE (273) – Fields and Waves II

EE (253) – Electronics I – recoded as EE 3100

EE (255) – Electronics II -recoded as EE 3120

EE (243) – Communication Systems

EE (261) – Control System – recoded EE 3320

EE (225) – Electronic and Photonic devices – recoded as EE 3250

EE (221) – Principles of Semiconductor Devices

EE (207) – Power System Analysis and Design

EE (206) – Power System Design and Analysis – recoded as EE 3540

EE (153) – Circuit Analysis II – recoded EE 2120

EE (151) – Circuit Analysis I – recoded EE 2100

NE (431) – Radiation Shielding

NE (401) – Nuclear Medical Science  

NE (312) – Radiation Measurements & Spectroscopy

NE (311) – Reactor Physics (II)

NE (307) – Nuclear Fuel Cycle

NE (303) – Reactor Physics (I)

NE (205) – Fundamentals of Nuclear Engineering

Education

• 1995 – Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering, University of Missouri–Rolla
• 1978 – M.S. in Physics, Tribhuvan University
• 1974 – B.S. in Physics, Tribhuvan University