Prasanna Parthasarathi
Staff Researcher at Noah's Ark Lab
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolPrasanna Parthasarathi is a Staff Researcher at Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab in Montreal with nine years of research experience spanning NLP, reinforcement learning, and optimization. A McGill PhD advised by Prof. Joelle Pineau and MILA affiliate, he has interned at Google Brain and Facebook AI Research and published award-winning work at top venues including ACL, ICLR, and EMNLP. His current focus is on making large language models practical—diagnosing systematic failure modes like hallucinations, building metrics and diagnostic datasets, and applying RAG-style pipelines and tool-use training to reduce factual errors. At Noah’s Ark Lab he drives algorithmic innovations for efficient architectures, accelerated inference, domain adaptation, and post-training reasoning improvements. He also contributes to the community as a meta-reviewer and workshop co-chair, blending rigorous ML theory with applied system-level solutions.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology MadrasBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science at Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology and Research AcademyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at McGill University
Tamil, EnglishProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ppartha03/Dialogue-Probe-Tasks-Public
Aug 2020 - Jun 2021
Contributions:7 commits, 3 pushes in 10 months
ppartha03/causal-lm-analysis
Jan 2022 - Apr 2022
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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