Curriculum Vitae

Education

• Ph.D in Computer Science, Arizona State University (2025 - Present)
• M.S. in Computer Science, Arizona State University (2023 - 2025)
• B.E. in Computer Science and Engineering, College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University (2018 - 2022)

Work experience

• Research Assistant (Dec 2023 - Present)
  • COGINT Lab, Arizona State University
  • Advisor: Prof. Chitta Baral
• Cloud Engineer (Jul 2022 - Jul 2023)
  • Searce Inc, Bangalore

Publications

ThinkTuning: Instilling Cognitive Reflections without Distillation

QA-LIGN: Aligning LLMs through Constitutionally Decomposed QA

TOW: Thoughts of Words Improve Reasoning in Large Language Models

Triple Preference Optimization: Achieving Better Alignment using a Single Step Optimization

Step-by-Step Reasoning to Solve Grid Puzzles: Where do LLMs Falter?

Chaos with Keywords: Exposing Large Language Models Sycophantic Hallucination to Misleading Keywords and Evaluating Defense Strategies

Teaching

CSE 576: Topics in Natural Language Processing

Service and leadership

• Reviewer for EMNLP, AACL