I am a PhD student in the Data Science Department (HDSI) at UC San Diego, advised by Prof. Babak Salimi. My research focuses on robustness, memorization, and data valuation in machine learning systems. I am currently a research intern at Meta Superintelligence Labs where I work on faster LLM inference. I hold Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Electrical Engineering from IIT Delhi and UC San Diego, respectively.

Publications

• Residual Skill Optimization for Text-to-SQL Ensembles
  Jiongli Zhu¹, Haoquan Guan¹, Parjanya Prashant¹, Nikki Lijing Kuang, Seyedeh Baharan Khatami, Canwen Xu, Xiaodong Yu, Yingyu Lin, Zhewei Yao, Yuxiong He, Babak Salimi
  Under Review
  ¹Equal contribution
  [Paper]
  

• Fine-Tuning Without Forgetting via Loss-Adaptive Learning Rates
  Parjanya Prashant¹, Jiongli Zhu¹, Aldan Creo, Babak Salimi
  Under Review
  ¹Equal contribution
  [Paper]
  

• KAIROS: Scalable Model-Agnostic Data Valuation
  Jiongli Zhu¹, Parjanya Prashant¹, Alex Cloninger, Babak Salimi
  Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2025
  ¹Equal contribution
  [Paper]
  

• TokenSwap: A Lightweight Method to Disrupt Memorized Sequences in LLMs
  Parjanya Prashant¹, Kaustubh Ponkshe¹, Babak Salimi
  Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2025 – Spotlight ⭐
  ¹Equal contribution
  [Paper]
  

• Scalable Out-of-distribution Robustness in the Presence of Unobserved Confounders
  Parjanya Prashant, Seyedeh Baharan Khatami, Bruno Ribeiro, Babak Salimi
  International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics 2025
  [Paper]
  

• Differentiable Causal Discovery For Latent Hierarchical Causal Models
  Parjanya Prashant, Ignavier Ng, Kun Zhang, Biwei Huang
  International Conference on Learning Representations 2025
  [Paper]
  

• Crop Yield Prediction of Indian Districts Using Deep Learning
  Parjanya Prashant, Kaustubh Ponkshe, Chirag Garg, Ishan Pendse, Prathamesh Muley
  International Conference on Image Information Processing 2021
  [Paper]
  

Miscellaneous

1. Enjoy competitive debating and was an active member of IIT Delhi DebSoc.
2. Huge cricket fan; Shane Warne is the GOAT!
3. Love watching all sorts of documentaries, favourites being BBC’s Planet Earth and Nat Geo’s Air Crash Investigation.