eSPUD — Experimental Studio for Platform Utility & Discovery

Experimental Studio for Platform Utility & Discovery.
An academic research collective focused on AI and Edge Computing.

Research

The Story of Inference-Time Scaling

(2026)

…and the training-time loop behind it. A language model can get dramatically better answers by thinking longer at answer time — not only by being retrained or made larger.

Shashank Bangalore Lakshman, Scott Eiers. The Story of Inference-Time Scaling. 9th Workshop on Visualization for AI Explainability (VISxAI), IEEE VIS 2026. Accepted; to be presented.

Explainable AIVisualization

The Confident Machine

(2026)

Why language models make things up, and what to do about it. Fourteen short visual pages on what hallucinations are and why they are a structural consequence of how these models work.

Shashank Bangalore Lakshman, Shravan Joshi. The Confident Machine. 9th Workshop on Visualization for AI Explainability (VISxAI), IEEE VIS 2026. Accepted; to be presented.

Explainable AIVisualization

pi-hub

(2026)

A research hub for the Principal Investigator — projects, team coordination and academic deadlines in one local-first web app. No backend, no accounts, no telemetry; nothing you type leaves your browser.

Open-source, MIT license.

By Shashank Bangalore Lakshman
PWAIndexedDBLocal-firstOffline

GemScan

(2026)

Scam detection that never leaves your phone — a 4-bit quantized Gemma running on the iPhone GPU via MLX-Swift. Nothing uploaded, nothing logged, ~2.5s median verdict on an iPhone 15 Pro.

Open-source, MIT license. Submitted to the Gemma-4-Good Kaggle Competition.

By Shashank Bangalore Lakshman, Scott Eiers
iOSMLX-SwiftGemmaApple VisionOn-device

Team

Shashank Bangalore Lakshman Lead Researcher M.S. Artificial Intelligence, UT Austin enrolled M.S. Electrical Engineering, San Jose State University graduated website · linkedin
Scott Lawrence Eiers Researcher B.S. Computer Science, Western Governors University enrolled linkedin
Shravan Joshi Researcher B.S. Cognitive Science, UCLA graduated linkedin
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