Nikesh Gyawali
About Me
Hello! I am Nikesh Gyawali, a postdoctoral fellow at Kansas State University with a deep passion for research, programming, algorithms, and solving complex problems. I recently completed my Ph.D. in Computer Science, where I worked primarily on "stance detection" - developing advanced NLP models, especially transformer-based and Large Language Models (LLMs) - to analyze and classify opinions on contentious topics such as gun control, social media analysis, and public opinion tracking.
As a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Plant Pathology, I now focus on building foundational language models for fungal genomes while continuing to apply machine learning and AI across bioinformatics, transportation safety, and NLP.