Engineer · Researcher · Builder

Tejas Polu

Member of Technical Staff at Aida. Previously at Amazon.

About

I'm an engineer and researcher from the Bay Area, working as a Member of Technical Staff at Aida. My research mainly focuses on AI safety and multimodal LLMs. I also love building things from the ground up, whether at a hackathon or a startup.

When I'm not coding, you'll find me catching up on sleep 😴, watching movies 🎬, and playing basketball 🏀 or spikeball 🤾.

Experience

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Aida

Now

Member of Technical Staff

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Amazon

Software Development Engineer Intern

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Baskin Engineering

Group Tutor

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Revoteen

Software Engineer & Co-Founder

Publications

SafePro: Evaluating the Safety of Professional-Level AI AgentsICLR

SafePro: Evaluating the Safety of Professional-Level AI Agents

Kaiwen Zhou, Shreedhar Jangam*, Ashwin Nagarajan*, Tejas Polu*, Suhas Oruganti, Chengzhi Liu, Ching-Chen Kuo, Yuting Zheng, Sravana Narayanaraju, Xin Eric Wang

ICLR 2026 Multi-Agent Systems in the Era of Foundation Models

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Smells Like Fire: Exploring the Impact of Olfactory Cues in VR Wildfire Evacuation TrainingCHI

Smells Like Fire: Exploring the Impact of Olfactory Cues in VR Wildfire Evacuation Training

Alison Crosby, MJ Johns, Eunsol Sol Choi, Tejas Polu, Katherine Isbister, Sri Kurniawan

CHI 2026

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CCC: Enhancing Video Generation via Structured MLLM FeedbackICML

CCC: Enhancing Video Generation via Structured MLLM Feedback

Jing Gu, Ashwin Nagarajan, Tejas Polu, Kaizhi Zheng, Ruijian Zha, Jie Yang, Xin Eric Wang

ICML 2025 Workshop on Test-Time Adaptation

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Human-centered World Modeling: Enhancing Multi-Agent AI AdaptabilityCHI

Human-centered World Modeling: Enhancing Multi-Agent AI Adaptability

Reza Habibi, Zhiyu Lin, Jiahong Li, Tejas Polu, Ashwin Nagarajan, Magy Seif El-Nasr

CHI 2025 Workshop on Human-AI Interaction for Augmented Reasoning

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