Bimal Raj Gyawali

Overview

Hello! I am Bimal, a first-year Ph.D. student in the Programming Systems Group at University of California, San Diego, advised by Prof. Nadia Polikarpova.

Before joining UC San Diego, I worked remotely with Prof. Konstantinos Kallas (UCLA) on automatic synthesis of tool code for LLM agents (that later merged with NaSh). His mentorship has been invaluable in helping me start my Ph.D. journey.

View my Resume (Last updated March, 2026)

Preprints

[0] NaSh: Guardrails for an LLM-Powered Natural Language Shell
Bimal Raj Gyawali, Saikrishna Achalla, Konstantinos Kallas, Sam Kumar
[Paper on arXiv]

We explore how a shell that uses an LLM to accept natural language input might be designed differently from the shells of today.

News

• Sep 2025: Started my Ph.D. at UC San Diego
• Feb 2024: Awarded Dean's List at Pokhara University, Nepal

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