AI researcher · Purdue University

Tejaswi
Panchagnula

Tejaswi Panchagnula at Purdue’s Ross-Ade Stadium

I build adaptive AI systems across computer vision, language models, and agentic architectures.

Graduate Research Assistant, VIPER Lab
Advised by Dr. Fengqing Maggie Zhu ↗

Selected research

2026 · Computer Vision

One-Shot Adaptive Segmentation for Scientific Images

Training-free DINOv3–SAM adaptation from one annotated reference image.

arXiv ↗
2026 · IEEE MMSP

Inference-Time Mitigation of Adversarial Political Bias in Large Language Models

Self-correction that improves political neutrality without additional training.

arXiv ↗
2025 · Human Vision

Foraging with the Eyes: Dynamics in Human Visual Gaze and Deep Predictive Modeling

A large-scale study of Lévy-walk dynamics in human visual search.

arXiv ↗

Built and tested

02

1st place · Purdue Chips & AI Hackathon

Compute Commons

A shared AI-training network that coordinates learning across idle, heterogeneous community devices.

PyTorch · MLX · WebSockets · Streamlit

Winner · 2026
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Research code

Gaze Analysis

Large-scale gaze dynamics and fixation prediction with more than four million recorded points.

PyTorch · Computer Vision · IIT Madras

GitHub ↗

Research with a builder’s instinct.

I’m an M.S. student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University and a Graduate Research Assistant in the VIPER Lab.

Previously, I was a Research Associate at the Walmart Center for Tech Excellence and a Research Intern at SENAI Lab, IIT Madras.

Python · PyTorch · vLLM · LangChain · OpenCV · AWS