Basil Khwaja

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Me.
Hello! I'm Basil Khwaja, an aspiring AI/ML Engineer. I'm currently a Master's student at Purdue University, pursuing a degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering. I am also a Research Fellow at Purdue. My experience includes working at a startup and mentoring students on the importance of engineering problem-solving.
Born and raised in Bangalore, India. I moved to America at the age of seven. However, my interests extend beyond technology—I am also an aspiring dancer, currently exploring contemporary and hip-hop styles. In addition, I'm learning to play the guitar and part of a band Holladaze! Recently, I've taken up bouldering, and I'm excited to see where that journey takes me.
Education:
  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering, Purdue University (2022 - 2025)
  • Master's Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University (2025 - 2026)
Basil Khwaja
Publications.

Papers

cs.CLarXiv:2603.03407· Mar 2026

Tracing Pharmacological Knowledge In Large Language Models

Basil Hasan Khwaja, Dylan Chen, Guntas Toor, Anastasiya Kuznetsova

We investigate how drug-group semantics are represented and retrieved within Llama-based biomedical language models using causal and probing-based interpretability methods. Our results demonstrate that early layers play a key role in encoding drug-group knowledge, with pharmacological semantics distributed across tokens rather than localized to single positions.

Accepted @ LMRL Workshop · ICLR 2026Mechanistic InterpretabilityLLMsPharmacology
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Thesis

Master's ThesisPurdue University · 2026

AEM : Adaptive Edge Model Predictive Control via Contextual Neural Bandtis

Basil Hasan Khwaja

Real-time autonomous vehicle (AV) local planning demands low-latency, safe, and compute-efficient trajectory generation. While offloading Model Predictive Control (MPC) rollouts to edge servers expands the planning search space, intermittent wireless downlinks and transmission errors create critical latency bottlenecks. Different rules that govern edge servers can not all prove to benefit the agent at all times. Existing frameworks remain agnostic to historical execution patterns and spatial context because of large overhead computation that exists with brute-force recommendation systems...

Computer EngineeringAutonomous VehiclesModel Predictive ControlContextual BanditsTrajectory Planning
Music.
Holladaze b2b set
Holladaze Inspirasian performance
Night Market grid performance
Night Market solo
Night Market stage

Juxtaposed

Lost Keys

Suffocate

Space

Quotes I love
"Medicine, law, business, engineering—these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life, but poetry, beauty, romance, love—these are what we stay alive for."

- Dead Poet's Society

"But how could you live and have no story to tell?"

- White Nights

"One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls"

- A Thousand Splendid Suns

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