Undergraduate Student, Computer Science / Linguistics
The University of Texas at Austin
prasanns [at] cs.utexas.edu PrasannS prasann_singhal semantic scholar
Hi, I'm Prasann! I'm an incoming PhD student at UC Berkeley, where I'll work with Sewon Min and Jacob Steinhardt. As an undergrad, I was extremely fortunate to be advised by the amazing Greg Durrett at UT Austin (I majored in CS and linguistics), and was supported by many awesome labmates and collaborators.
My research focuses on Natural Language Processing and I'm broadly interested in better understanding how language models work. Recently, I've recently been curious about how properties of data affect what different learning algorithms learn, but I've done work understanding and improving RLHF algorithms (particularly focused on reward modeling and things like online vs offline supervision), efficiency in decoding algorithms, and using explanations to predict large language model out-of-distribution robustness.
Prior to research, I've also had the chance to participate in nearly 20 hackathons, and made a lot of fun projects.
I love meeting new people so free to send me an email if you'd like to chat about anything (e.g. related research, unrelated research, just want to say hi)! Likewise, if you're a high-schooler or undergrad interested in research or grad school, I'm always happy to give advice if you feel it'd be useful.
ChartMuseum: Testing Visual Reasoning Capabilities of Large Vision-Language Models
To CoT or not to CoT? Chain-of-thought helps mainly on math and symbolic reasoning
D2PO: Discriminator-Guided DPO with Response Evaluation Models code
A Long Way to Go: Investigating Length Correlations in RLHF code
EEL: Efficiently Encoding Lattices for Reranking code
Assessing Out-of-Domain Language Model Performance from Few Examples
[Dec. 2024] Won the 2025 CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award (awardee)!
[Jul. 2024] A Long Way to Go in RLHF @ SEAL Reading Group, Scale AI
[Feb. 2024] A Long Way to Go in RLHF @ UT Austin LIN 393 Seminar
[Nov. 2023] A Long Way to Go in RLHF @ IST & Unbabel Seminar
Scale AI Research Intern / Part-time Researcher. Summer-Fall 2024.
UT Austin TAUR Lab Undergraduate Research Assistant, Natural Language Processing. Fall 2021-Present.
CS 388 (NLP) TA (Fall 2024)
UT Austin Directed Reading Program Mentor (Spring 2024)
Reviewer: EMNLP (22), TMLR (25)
Founder / Teacher - Katy HACK Initiative: I spent 3 years starting/running CS education programs in local elementary / junior high schools
Volunteer Teacher - I spent a summer teaching English, Computer Fundamentals in a village in Gujarat