Pranav Pappu

Engineer / AI Researcher / Builder

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About

Year 1 CS student at NUS.

I build AI-powered tools and ship fast.

Currently a Research Assistant under Prof. Ooi Wei Tsang working on 3D Gaussian Splatting optimization, CCSGP fellow building assistive tech for special needs assessment, and a hackathon regular who builds to win.

Interested in AI infrastructure, developer tools, healthtech, neuroevolution, and quality-diversity algorithms.

Projects

Brushstroke

A frontend MCP tool that lets AI agents generate and iterate on UI components in real time. Bringing animated illustration generation to agentic workflows.

Agent Island

WIP

A visual interface for watching CLI and swarm agents work in real time, with quick approval flows for agent requests.

AssessMate

WIP

AI case note copilot for early childhood intervention assessors, helping special needs children get attention faster.

SecureClaw

Multi-agent LLM routing with MAP-Elites and UCB1 bandit policies for intelligent, privacy-aware model selection.

Moltlytics

Analytics platform rivaling PostHog that lets website owners automatically adapt their sites based on real customer behavior data.

GPT-2 from Scratch

Full PyTorch implementation surpassing standard benchmarks, plus a custom BPE tokenizer.

Experience

Research Assistant

Prof. Ooi Wei Tsang, NUS School of Computing

3D Gaussian Splatting optimization and benchmarking.

CCSGP Fellow

NUS Centre for Community Service

Building AssessMate to support early childhood intervention assessors working with special needs children.

Research Collaborator

Prof. Leong Tze Yun’s RL Group

Exploring neuroevolution, world models, MAP-Elites, and quality-diversity algorithms for clinical time-series and architecture search.

Hackathon Wins

2nd Place

Google DeepMind × Cactus Compute Hackathon

Built a hybrid LLM routing system using embedding-based similarity matching with privacy and compute scoring.