Laxmi earned her undergraduate degree in Geomatics Engineering from Kathmandu University, Nepal, in 2012. Since 2013, she has served as a Geomatics Engineer (Survey Officer) at the Survey Department under the Government of Nepal, contributing to various projects. From 2017 to 2019, she completed a master’s degree in Geospatial Technologies through the Erasmus Mundus Joint Degree Program, studying in Portugal, Germany, and Spain. She has been actively engaged in multi-disciplinary research, focusing on the application of geospatial technologies for Earth observation. In 2023, she spent a year at the University of Oxford as an early-stage researcher, investigating the vertical distribution of aerosols using multi-sensor data and machine learning. Currently, she is a doctoral candidate at Aston University, UK, where her research explores the integration of emerging technologies into disaster management systems in Smart Cities.

She is also involved in research on the use of UAVs for developing Digital Twins. Laxmi serves as the President of the ISPRS Student Consortium (2022–2026) and has been actively involved in organizing capacity-building initiatives to foster knowledge exchange and networking among young professionals in Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing, and GIS on a national and global scale.