Bhanu Prakash Vangala

News archive

Research, teaching, and other updates.

  1. 09/2026New!📄 Our paper One Threshold Does Not Fit All Languages with Navya Vangala was accepted as an oral at the Global South in AI Workshop at NeurIPS 2026! We show that each low-resource language needs its own rule for when a model should answer and when to hand off to a human.
  2. 08/2026🧑‍🏫 This fall I am a teaching assistant for Designing End-to-End ML Systems at Mizzou, building hands-on labs on Chameleon Cloud and marimo notebooks.
  3. 08/2026💼 Wrapped up my summer as a Research Data Science Intern at Microsoft in Redmond on the Windows Data team, working with Anqi Cheng and Arturo Herrera.
  4. 2026📄 Our paper CAMP: Consumption-Aware Memory Prediction for Scientific Workflows got accepted at WORKS at SC26, the International Conference for High Performance Computing. Check out the paper and code.
  5. 07/2026🎤 Presented Pick and Spin as an oral at IEEE CLOUD 2026 in Sydney, Australia.
  6. 07/2026🎤 Presented AI-Generated Code Is Not Reproducible (Yet) as an oral at ACM REP 2026 at TU Delft, Netherlands.
  7. 2026🏆 Selected for the Top 100 at the ACM Doctoral Summit.
  8. 06/2026📄 Pick and Spin was accepted as an oral at IEEE CLOUD 2026! Cold-start-aware routing for self-hosted LLMs that cuts GPU-hours by 46%. Check out the paper.
  9. 05/2026📄 AI-Generated Code Is Not Reproducible (Yet) was accepted as an oral at ACM REP 2026! We ask whether code written by AI coding agents actually runs on someone else’s machine. Check out the paper.
  10. 04/2026✈️ Received the EECS Graduate Travel Fellowship from the University of Missouri College of Engineering.
  11. 04/2026✈️ Awarded a Chameleon Cloud Travel Award (top 10 proposals) and presented Evaluating Dependency Gaps in LLM-Generated Code at the Sixth Chameleon User Meeting, NCAR Mesa Lab, Boulder, Colorado.
  12. 03/2026🎤 Gave an invited talk at the MINDFUL Seminar at the University of Missouri.
  13. 01/2026🎤 Presented two orals at AAAI 2026 in Singapore: AI-Generated Code Is Not Reproducible (Yet) at the RAI Workshop and Efficient Multi-Model Orchestration for Self-Hosted LLMs at the DAI Workshop.
  14. 01/2026📝 Submitted Code That Works, Environments That Don’t, an extended 1,000-run study, to AI Magazine. The next version is becoming a public benchmark.
  15. 12/2025📄 AI-Generated Code Is Not Reproducible (Yet) was accepted at the RAI Workshop at AAAI 2026. Check out the paper.
  16. 11/2025📄 Efficient Multi-Model Orchestration for Self-Hosted LLMs was accepted at the DAI Workshop at AAAI 2026. Check out the paper.
  17. 11/2025💼 Accepted an offer from Microsoft for a Research Data Science Internship in summer 2026.
  18. 09/2025🏆 Named an Outstanding Reviewer at the AI4Mat Workshop, NeurIPS 2025.
  19. 05/2025🎓 Graduated with my M.S. in Computer Science from Mizzou and continued into the Ph.D. program in the Radiant Lab.
  20. 04/2025🏆 Selected as one of three University of Missouri nominees for the Google PhD Fellowship in NLP.
  21. 04/2025🎤 Presented our hallucination-detection work at the AAAI Spring Series 2025 (AI for Engineering and Scientific Discoveries).
  22. 03/2025🏆 Received the Outstanding Master’s Student Award at the Mizzou Engineering Awards Banquet.
  23. 03/2025🏆 Our team won runner-up ($1,000) at the MUIDSI x IBM Generative AI for Social Good Hackathon with VisionAI, an assistant for visually impaired users.
  24. 01/2025📄 Two papers accepted at the AAAI Spring Series 2025: HalluMat and HalluFormer, on detecting hallucinations in LLMs.
  25. 09/2024🔬 Started building scalable LLM-as-a-Service infrastructure on the NSF Nautilus cluster with Kubernetes, Helm and vLLM. Check out the code.
  26. 12/2023🔬 Joined the Radiant Lab as a graduate research assistant with Prof. Tanu Malik.
  27. 08/2023🔬 Began research on faithfulness, interpretability and robustness in large language models.
  28. 06/2023🎓 Admitted to the Ph.D. program in Computer Science at the University of Missouri.
  29. 05/2023🎓 Graduated with a B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering (Data Analytics) from Vellore Institute of Technology.
  30. 04/2023🏆 Received the Dean’s Research Excellence Award at VIT for work on multilingual NLP and social media analytics.
  31. 05/2022🔬 Started as a volunteer research intern at Adobe Research.