Hello, I'm

Manil Shrestha

Building Trustworthy, Explainable Machine Intelligence

Engineer • Researcher • ML Systems Builder

Engineer and scientist powered by caffeine, curiosity, and the occasional existential crisis about super-intelligent machines.

I work at the intersection of LLMs, knowledge graphs, and ML systems, building intelligent models that think clearly—not just loudly. With 9+ years in data engineering and 5+ years in machine learning, my work focuses on making AI more trustworthy, interpretable, and grounded.

I design systems that scale, pipelines that don't break at 2 a.m., and machine intelligence that can explain itself without gaslighting you.

Research Focus

LLM Security & Trustability

Automated penetration testing, secure multiparty generative AI, and building AI systems you can actually trust.

Knowledge Graphs & XAI

Case-based reasoning, knowledge extraction, and making AI explanations actually meaningful.

Scalable ML Systems

Data backbones, distributed pipelines, and ML infrastructure that actually works in production.

Computer Vision

Synthetic image detection, vision transformers, and multimodal learning architectures.

Recent Publications

2025

Efficient Multi-Hop Question Answering over Knowledge Graphs via LLM Planning and Embedding-Guided Search

IEEE Big Data 2025 - Workshop on Knowledge Graphs and Big Data

2025

Secure Multiparty Generative AI

Workshop on Deployable AI at AAAI-2025

2024

Towards Automated Penetration Testing: Introducing LLM Benchmark, Analysis, and Improvements

UMAP Workshops 2025 • 30 citations

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