About

Hello! I’m Prajakta Kini, a 2nd-year Master’s student in Computer Science at the University of Colorado Boulder. My research interests lie in Natural Language Processing (NLP), with a focus on neuro-symbolic approaches, improving interpretability and alignment in large language models (LLMs), and meta-reasoning in LLMs.

Education

• M.S. in Computer Science, University of Colorado Boulder, CO, USA (Aug 2024 - May 2026)
• Bachelors of Engineering in Information Technology, Sardar Patel Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India, (Aug 2016- May 2020)

Work Experience

• Graduate Research Assistant, University of Colorado Boulder, CO, USA (Aug 2025 - Present)
• SDE Intern, PhonePe, CA, USA (Jun 2025 - Aug 2025)
• Software Engineer II, Uber, Bangalore, India (Mar 2023 - Jul 2024)
• Member of Technical Staff III, VMware, Bangalore, India (Jul 2020 - Mar 2023)
• R&D Intern, VMware, Bangalore, India (Jan 2020 - Jul 2020)