About Me

I'm an AI Safety Researcher working on evaluating models to remain safe and harmless, building methods to distinguish models that are genuinely safe from those that have learned to scheme.

Most recently, I was at Amazon Science as an Applied Scientist under Prince Grover, where I deployed an agentic evaluation system for reducing situational awareness in production-level agents, and presented our work at NeurIPS 2025 demo. Before that, I interned at Bayer Crop Science R&D under He Jing, where I built and deployed predictive AI systems and received the Innovators & Inventors Award for it.

I completed my PhD at Purdue University under Dr. David J. Yu and Dr. Yan Cong, where I studied human decision-making under uncertainty in high-stakes infrastructure systems. My research drew on behavioral economics and social psychology to model how humans make collective decisions when incentives are misaligned—the same lens I now apply to AI systems. Prior to Purdue, I did my undergrad at IIT Delhi, where I spent my summer at Delft University and got my first real taste of research. I also became a Sakura Fellow and spent time at the University of Tokyo. I love exploring new countries and hidden food gems.

News

• [04/2026] Featured by BlueDot Impact for SPAR research on a consistency training method that makes LLMs behave predictably under paraphrase, targeting jailbreaking and sycophancy.
• [03/2026] Working with Sam Dower on Synthetic Data Finetuning (SDF) technique reliability for open-source models.
• [03/2026] Working with David Africa (UK AISI) on attention consistency for model alignment, focusing on resilience against jailbreaking.
• [01/2026] Admitted to Algoverse AI Safety Fellowship; withdrew to pursue other directions.
• [01/2026] Paper submitted to ICLR 2026 — "Measuring Capability vs. Compliance in Evaluation Aware Software Engineering Agents" (Agents in the Wild workshop)
• [12/2025] Presented live demo at NeurIPS 2025 Amazon Demo Booth — "Are We Just Scratching the Surface of AI Evaluation for Agentic Systems?"
• [08/2025] Joined Amazon (New York, NY) as Applied Scientist, advised by Prince Grover.
• [06/2025] Paper published in Water Resources Research — "Modeling Human Decision Heuristics and Anticipatory Behavior in Safety-Critical Systems Under Uncertainty"
• [03/2025] Presented at EGU General Assembly 2025, Vienna, Austria — "Enhancing Resilience in Human–Reservoir Systems with NLP and AI Frameworks"
• [12/2024] Undergraduate thesis paper published in Hydrological Sciences Journal — "Increased Socio-Vulnerability to Floods Around Flood Protection Structures: Case Study of Ganga and Brahmaputra Basins (India)"
• [08/2024] Awarded Purdue Systems Collaboratory Fellowship
• [07/2024] Awarded Innovators & Inventors Award by Bayer at their Annual Research Conference
• [06/2024] Presented at ASEE 2024 — "Empowering Students and Strengthening Community Relationships"
• [04/2024] Presented at EGU General Assembly 2024 — "NLP and AI Frameworks for Modeling Human–Infrastructure Systems"
• [01/2024] Joined Bayer, Crop Science R&D (Creve Coeur, MO) as Applied Scientist, advised by He Jing
• [08/2023] Started role as Data Scientist Researcher at Microsoft, in the Minecraft team
• [03/2023] Invited Keynote Speaker at MOIPA (Most Outstanding Interdisciplinary Program Award) Spring Reception 2023
• [11/2022] First PhD collaboration paper published in Environmental Research Letters — "The Importance of Fit in Groundwater Self-Governance" (NSF project)
• [08/2021] Awarded ESE Lynn Fellowship for exceptional PhD admissions at Purdue University
• [08/2021] Started PhD at Purdue University

Invited Talks

Publications

Full list on Google Scholar

Honors & Awards

• Magoon Research Award
  Purdue University · Apr 2026 — Purdue's highest research distinction, recognizing outstanding doctoral research across the university.
• Dr. James Etzel Endowment Scholarship
  Lyles School of Civil Engineering, Purdue University · Nov 2024
• Kinnier Travel Scholarship
  Lyles School of Civil and Construction Engineering, Purdue University · Nov 2024
• Purdue Graduate Student Government Travel Award
  PGSG, Purdue University · Nov 2024
• System Collaborative Fellowship
  Purdue Systems Collaboratory, Purdue University · Aug 2024
• Elmer Ballotti Memorial Fellowship
  Lyles School of Civil Engineering, Purdue University · Sep 2023
• Most Outstanding Interdisciplinary Award
  Office of Interdisciplinary Graduate Programs, Purdue University · May 2023
• Outstanding Teaching Award
  Ecological Sciences & Engineering, Purdue University · May 2023
• Ron Wukasch Environmental Engineering Scholarship
  Lyles School of Civil Engineering, Purdue University · Sep 2022
• ESE Lynn Fellowship
  Purdue Graduate School, Purdue University · Aug 2021 — Awarded to recruit outstanding Ph.D. students to interdisciplinary programs.
• MEXT Scholarship
  Japanese Government (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology) · Aug 2021 — Fully funded fellowship to pursue a Master’s at the University of Tokyo.