I am Kannan, a student in Singapore.
Primary Research
My research primarily focuses on the limitations of current AI systems. I have published a paper on why statute-only retrieval hurts legal reasoning in Large Language Models (LLMs) — a phenomenon I call Statutory Myopia — and another on distributed semantic caching architecture capable of reducing LLM Inference costs by 67%.
Statutory Myopia came out of a project I built, LeginAI), which orchestrates a 9-LLM consensus workflow using voting logic to minimize hallucinations in legal verdict generation.
Education & Open-Source AI
Earlier in 2026, I was invited to speak at the FOSSASIA 2026 Summit on how open-source AI can be used to make personalized education easily accessible. My talk iterated the point that commercial AI solving the global education gap remained panglossian - many important parameters such as cost, access, student privacy and opacity of the systems are often ignored. Over there, I also presented the concept of building a "Glass-Box Architecture" as opposed to the commercial Black-Box LLMs available today.
The talk grew out of a project I've been working on for the past half a decade, DonumAI, aimed at being an AI Teaching Assistant for classrooms and students who can't afford a private tutor and also for the opsimath seeking to learn independantly.
The slide decks from the talks are available here.
Energy Research
In Fall 2025, I led a team across the United States, India and Singapore, conducting research on a hybrid energy solution featuring self-cooling floating solar farms and BIPV (Building-Integrated Photovoltaics). We designed data-driven modelings to demonstrate a 15% efficiency boost over standard grids and co-designed Python simulations integrating real-time weather and Gemini APIs to model energy efficiency across global climates. Presentation slides for the project can be found here.
Olympiads & Cybersecurity
Outside of AI, I compete in informatics and cryptographic olympiads, being a medalist at olympiads such as International Olympiad in Cryptography, Singapore's National Olympiad of Informatics (NOI) and India's International Informatics Olympiad (iiO).
Recently I developed an interest in cybersecurity and Capture-The-Flag (CTF) contests, after that I taught Digital Forensics to students at an international school (Slide Decks) and received an Honorable Mention in the National Cybersecurity Olympiad 2026 (NSTEMC). Earlier in 2025, I advanced to the Quarter Finals of the National STEM Championship (organized by Science Centre, Singapore) as part of a four-student team.
When I started tinkering with microcontrollers and hardware, I got certified by CSARC in Arduino Microcontrollers.
Earlier Projects
Previously, I was the co-founder and co-head of Earth Status (website, no longer maintained), which aimed at spreading awareness about global warming among the general public. I was responsible for the technical back-end and outreach — creating an Android app, maintaining the group's blog, newsletter, and social media channels alongside creating visuals and decks for presentation and campaigns.
After being introduced to geospatial technologies for the first time, I also built a (fun) website, EZTime, which calculates the apparent solar time based on user longitude.
Contact
Feel free to reach out: kannan.mp [at] proton [dot] me