I AM
Prashanna

An AI researcher and full-stack software engineer,
studying for an MS in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Wyoming

About Me

I am a computer engineer and AI researcher, now studying for an MS in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Wyoming after a BE in Computer Engineering from Kathmandu University and two years building production software at Pasifikan.

My research sits where model efficiency meets evaluation. I have measured how much factual knowledge a language model can physically hold under low-bit quantization, asked whether vision-language models assembled from the same pretrained parts inherit each other's blind spots, and co-authored a survey on how those models handle negation. I care about experiments that are honest about what they did not show.

On the engineering side I build the systems that research needs and the products that people use: quantization stacks and evaluation harnesses, agentic assistants with retrieval, and a wildlife-vehicle collision alert system now running at the Wyoming Department of Transportation.

News & Updates

  • Under review

    First-author paper under review at EMNLP 2026

    Parameter Golf: What Really Works? is under review at the BabyLM Workshop. Preprint on arXiv.

  • August 2026

    Negation survey published at ICPR 2026

    Negation in Vision-Language Models: A Survey, LNCS pp. 248–262. Read it.

  • August 2026

    Summer at the Wyoming Department of Transportation

    Finished a summer as an ITS/GIS Development Intern in Cheyenne, where I built and deployed a wildlife-vehicle collision alert system now used by Traffic Management Center operators.

  • June 2026

    Attended CVPR 2026 in Denver

    The IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, at the Colorado Convention Center.

  • May 2026

    Fifteenth Summer School on Formal Techniques

    Hosted by SRI International at Menlo College, California.

  • August 2025

    Started the MS in Artificial Intelligence

    Began at the University of Wyoming, and joined the department as a graduate research assistant.

  • June 2025

    MLx Generative AI 2025

    Completed at the Oxford Machine Learning Summer School. Certificate.