Drabid Subedi works where AI and cybersecurity meet. At NAAMII, he leads the AI Native course and designed a three-course AI literacy programmes on context engineering, agentic AI and responsible AI that is preparing Nepal’s knowledge workers for an AI-native workplace. He also trains learners for the EU-funded UDAAN project. As a researcher in NAAMII’s CARI group, he studies how institutions reorganize after adopting AI.

Before NAAMII, he spent five years at SecurityPal AI, rising from security research analyst to lead a 50-person customer operations team. He is also working on a small language model that automates security questionnaires. His research goal is to use AI to make security assessment, compliance and threat analysis faster and more reliable, and he plans to pursue graduate and doctoral research in AI and security. His long-term ambition is to build an AI and security company in Nepal. He welcomes collaboration on AI-driven security, AI governance and AI capacity building in developing economies.