whoami?
I am an incoming Computer Science Ph.D. student at the University of Maryland, College Park, advised by Prof. Yizheng Chen.
My research interests include AI Security, Machine Learning, and Natural Language Processing.
I was a Master of Science in Intelligent Information Systems student at the Language Technologies Institute, CMU, advised by Prof. Maarten Sap, and for a short while, Prof. Aditi Raghunathan, and Prof. Carolyn Rose & Prof. Michael Hilton.
Before that, I was a Research Fellow at Microsoft Research India, working with Prof. Monojit Choudhury, who is now at MBZUAI.
Full list of advisors here.
I have worked on two kinds of problems: AI Ethics, involving moral and cultural biases, and AI Safety, including LLM Jailbreaks, and LLM4Code Security.
news
- August 2025: We, team Purpl3Pwn3rs, were finalists at the Amazon Nova AI Challenge: Trusted AI Track.
- April 2025: Our work NormAd was used by TASC, Google.
- April 2025: Accepted my offer for a Ph.D. at University of Maryland, College Park.
- January 2025: Stayed back at LTI, CMU as a member of staff.
- January 2025: Akhila's and my paper accepted at NAACL
2025:
- June 2024: Joined Bell-Labs as a Research Intern.
- April 2024: Our work from Microsoft accepted at LREC-CoLING 2024:
- October 2023: Our work from Microsoft accepted at EMNLP Findings 2023:
- August 2023: Joined Carnegie Mellon University as a Master's student in
LTI.
- August 2022: Joined Microsoft as a Research Fellow.
- January 2022: Joined Microsoft Research as a Research Intern.
- August 2021: Joined SpeechLab, Nanyang Technological
University as a Research Intern.
- June 2021: Joined Oracle Corporation as an SDE Intern.
