Pankaj Pansari

Assistant Professor, Plaksha University

PhD, University of Oxford

Area of Expertise:

Machine Learning Optimization

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About Pankaj Pansari

Dr. Pankaj Pansari is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence division of Plaksha University. His research interests lie in improving reasoning abilities of LLMs and on speeding up inference and training of LLMs. He heads the Kestrel Lab @ Plaksha.

Pankaj completed his PhD at Oxford University and B.Tech at IIT Kharagpur. He has worked at at Naver Labs Europe (Grenoble, France) and at General Electric (Bangalore, India).

Email: pankaj.pansari@plaksha.edu.in

Personal webpage: https://pankajpansari.github.io/

ML Systems course website: https://ai4103-mlsys.github.io/

Research

My research themes are machine learning systems and LLM reasoning. I am interested in methods for speeding up inference of AI models so that they are able to make good utilization of expensive hardware resources. I also focus on developing benchmarks to measure and characterize ability of AI models on tasks that go beyond math and programming and are more representative of the scenarios in which we want to use these models in the real-world.

Publications

“Linear Programming-based Submodular Extensions for Marginal Estimation”, Pankaj Pansari, Chris Russell, and M. Pawan Kumar, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 2019 PDF
“Worst-case Optimal Submodular Extensions for Marginal Estimation”, Pankaj Pansari, Chris Russell, and M. Pawan Kumar, AISTATS, 2018 PDF
“Truncated Max-of-Convex Models”, Pankaj Pansari and M. Pawan Kumar, CVPR, 2017 arXiv
“Grouping Entities in a Fleet by Community Detection in Network of Regression Models”, Pankaj Pansari, C. Rajagopalan, Ramasubramanian Sundararajan, 3rd International Conference on Business Analytics and Intelligence, 2015 arXiv

Research Interests

Machine learning systems
LLM reasoning

Past Associations

Research Scientist, Naver Labs Europe, Grenoble
Data Analyst, General Electric, Bangalore
Researcher, Alan Turing Institute, London

Education

PhD, Oxford University
BTech and MTech, IIT Kharagpur