Kestrel Lab @ Plaksha

Overview

The Kestrel Lab at Plaksha University conducts research on machine learning systems and LLM reasoning. We are interested in methods for speeding up inference of AI models so that they are able to make good utilization of expensive hardware resources. We 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.

News:

February, 2026: Pankaj gave an invited talk on ‘Efficient Long-context LLM Serving’ at IIIT-Hyderabad. Slides

January, 2026: Congratulations to Aman Paliwal on starting a research internship in the Systems team at Microsoft Research, Bangalore!

September, 2025 Pankaj is teaching ML Systems at Plaksha University this semester. Lecture videos, slides, and reading materials are available at https://ai4103-mlsys.github.io/

May, 2025: Read our blog post here describing our small study on making LLMs reason in paradoxical situations.