Abhimanyu Prasad

About

I'm an independent researcher from India. Much of my work is on Bhojpuri. When I started, Stanford's Stanza library had no Bhojpuri models, so I opened an issue asking for them and wrote two of the data scripts that Stanza v1.15.0 uses for Bhojpuri.

I also build systems: a Rust kernel (Axiom OS) that checks file integrity on every read, and a per-block checker for AI model files that grew out of it.

In 2026 two of my sole-authored papers were accepted at NeurIPS 2026 workshops (non-archival). Both look at how agent evaluations can measure the wrong thing.

How I work

Where do you do this work?
On my own, from India. I'm not part of a lab or a program.
What hardware do you use?
A laptop, free Kaggle GPUs for training, and my phone when I need to test on ARM.
Who has helped you?
Prof. Deepak Kumar Rakesh (NIT Bhopal) mentors my PURVA work and is a co-author on the paper. Prof. Subodh Kumar (IIT Delhi) gave me design advice on Axiom by email. Stanza's maintainer reviewed and merged my pull requests. Most of what I know comes from research papers and documentation. When I'm stuck, I email people who work on the problem, or ask in open forums and issue threads. I learned Rust from Philipp Oppermann's 'Writing an OS in Rust' tutorial, and reviewers' comments, including rejections, have taught me a lot.
How can I reach you?
Email is the best way. The Email button on the home page and in the footer shows the address.

Recognition

  • Selected by Prof. Feng Chen's AI safety lab at UT Dallas, one of 4 students chosen, based on my open-source vehicle classification models. I did not attend. (certificate, not online)
  • NCC 'A' certificate (2025). I took part in CATC-XVII/23 at Koderma (Nov-Dec 2023) and received an "Exemplary conduct" note. (certificate, not online)
  • SOF National Cyber Olympiad: international ranks 182 and 170, and Zonal Excellence twice. (certificate, not online)
  • AISSEE (Sainik School entrance): state rank 2. (certificate, not online)
  • Dainik Jagran Genius Award 2025. (certificate, not online)
  • Best House Academician, Sainik School Tilaiya. (certificate, not online)
  • SOF International English Olympiad: school rank 2. (certificate, not online)
  • CBSE / Skill India NSQF Level-2 IT certificate (2025). (certificate, not online)
  • Newspaper coverage of my Class 10 board result (Prabhat Khabar, Pratah Awaz and one more). (clippings, not online)
  • Founded the CS club at Sainik School Tilaiya. I run informal CS sessions for classmates at my current school.

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