Professor KC is a Japan Foundation Fellow (2012 July- March 2013) MONBUSHO Fellow of Government of Japan (2002-2009), US State Department`s SUSI Fellow (April-June, 2012) and a Guest Professor at Leshan Normal University, Leshan, Sichuan Province, China (2016, April onward) and a Visiting Faculty at Nepali Army Command and Staff College, APF Command and Staff College, and Nepali Army Higher Command and Management since 2010.

He did MA in political Science from TU in 1993 and did second MA in IR, and PhD and Post-Doctoral Research at Nagasaki University, Japan under Japanese Government Scholarship from 2002-2009. He edited Journal of Political Science from 1996-2001 and 2009-2013 and Journal of International Affairs from 2016-2020. He is in editorial board of Journal of International Affairs, Department of International Relations, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, Journal of Asian Political Affairs, Department of Political Science, Chittagong University, Bangladesh and Policy Review Journal, Policy Research Institute, Nepal. He has so far contributed numerous research articles in national and international Journals to the areas of; Modern Japanese political thought, foreign policy and diplomatic relations of Nepal and Japan, Civil Military Relations of Nepal, China`s/Japanese Foreign Aid to Nepal, and South China Sea and BRI.  He has so far studied, attended conferences and made short courses and research exposures to the following friendly countries; Bangladesh, Canada, China, India, Japan, Malaysia, Pakistan, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Thailand, UK, UAE, USA.