Kannan MURUGAPANDIAN

AI Systems Pre-University Researcher, DPS International School, Singapore

Education

DPS International School, Singapore Class 12, ISC | 2016 – Expected 2027

Member, Digital Tech & Media
Instructor, Competitive Cybersecurity 101
Head, Scientific & Technical Committee, Interhouse Coding Competition
Top 10 Finalist (Singapore), SIM–LSE Data Challenge.
Quarter-finalist, National STEM Championship (NSTEMC) 2025.

Publications & Talks

Judgement Day: Benchmarking "Black Box" LLMs With Open Legal Datasets (Open Source Summit India, 2026)

Introduced "Statutory Myopia" using an open evaluation harness on LegalBench (239 cases, 4,302 traces) across GPT-5, DeepSeek R1, and Gemini 2.5 Pro.
Watch the Talk | Slides

Democratizing Personalized Learning Using Open Source AI (FOSSASIA Summit, 2026)

Proposed a "Glass-Box Learning Architecture" for privacy-safe EdTech using locally hosted 7B-parameter open-source models.
Watch the Talk | Slides

Research & Preprints

From Semantic Reuse to Auditable Tutoring (Research Essay, 2026) – Governance-oriented extension of the CSCN architecture for AI tutoring. Read Essay
Crowdsourced Semantic Cache Network (Zenodo Preprint, 2026) – 4-layer LLM inference cost-reduction architecture yielding up to 67% savings. DOI | Summary
Reasoning Over Recall (Zenodo Preprint, 2026) – Empirical study on RAG degradation in doctrinal legal tasks. DOI | Summary
(A brief note on my choice of preprint repository: Why I Publish on Zenodo)

Selected Experience

Instructor, Competitive Cybersecurity 101 | DPS International School | 2026 – Present Designed and delivering a foundational curriculum preparing students for the NCO and ICO, covering Python CTF scripting, cryptography, forensics, and web exploitation. Instructional materials released under CC BY-NC 4.0. Course Repository

Research Team Lead | New York Academy of Sciences – Junior Academy | Sep – Nov 2025 Selected into a program with <7% global acceptance rate. Led a cross-continental team (US, Singapore, India) on renewable energy modelling; demonstrated a 15% efficiency boost over standard grids using Python and the Gemini API. View Slides

Museum Ambassador | HeritageSG, National Heritage Board | Aug 2025 – Present Public-facing interpreter at Singapore's national museums, facilitating exhibition tours and interactive learning engagements for diverse audiences.

Co-Founder & Co-Head | Earth Status (Youth Climate Initiative) | Dec 2021 – Oct 2024 Directed technical development, launching a mobile app on the Google Play Store and overseeing cross-platform digital strategy.

Selected Honours & Awards

Top 10 Finalist (Singapore) – SIM–LSE Data Challenge
Speaker – FOSSASIA Summit 2026 & Open Source Summit India 2026
Honourable Mention – National Cybersecurity Olympiad (NCO) Competitive Track 2026
Third Degree Diploma – NSUCRYPTO International Olympiad in Cryptography 2025
Silver Award – Singapore Informatics League (SIL) 2025
Bronze Medal – National Olympiad in Informatics (NOI) 2024
State Topper (Gold Medal) – International Informatics Olympiad (iiO) 2023 & 2024
Quarter-Finalist – National STEM Championship (NSTEMC) 2025

Technical Skills & Key Projects

Languages & Frameworks: Python, C++, C, Java, Flask, Django

Tools & Domains: Git, Linux, Wireshark, Autopsy, Cryptography, Digital Forensics, LLM Evaluation

Key Projects:

LeginAI: 9-agent consensus architecture for legal reasoning with strict RAG constraints.
DonumAI: Comprehension-adaptive AI instructional platform (Flask/Gemini API). Demo
MittentisAI: Modular prompt-chaining system for narrative generation across 9 genres. Demo
PlantyyGo: Plant identification platform (directed technical architecture and scalability).