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Research

Exploring the frontiers of machine learning and artificial intelligence through innovative research and practical applications.

Research Interests

AI Safety

Building safer LLMs via evaluation, alignment, and red-teaming to mitigate misuse and failures.

Multimodal LLMs

Building and evaluating models that understand and generate across text, vision, and other modalities.

Human-in-the-Loop

Integrating human feedback with automated learning to steer model behavior and safeguard reliability.

Publications

SafePro arXiv
arXiv

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

arXiv:2601.06663, 2026

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ICML 2025 Workshop
ICML

CCC: Enhancing Video Generation via Structured MLLM Feedback

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

Second Workshop on Test-Time Adaptation: Putting Updates to the Test! at ICML 2025

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CHI 2025 Workshop
CHI

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: Human-AI Interaction for Augmented Reasoning

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