Publications

• Neither Blinding Nor a Jury, Neither Capability Nor Strategy: What Brings a Verifier to Reliability

  Johnny Kozman, Arushi Waddepalli, Tilak Parajuli

  NeurIPS 2026 Workshops: TAE (Can We Trust AI Evaluation?) and Who Verifies the Agents?

  A controlled study of LLM verifiers across 64,800 verification calls. Blinding the judge to authorship does not remove self-preference, and larger or stronger judge panels do not catch more errors. Only an environment signal, such as executing the code, changes the picture.

  OpenReview Code

Projects

• Debug Drive

  TypeScript · VS Code API · OpenAI API

  A VS Code debugging assistant in which debugger, critic, and tester agents retrieve relevant code, propose patches, validate them in a sandbox, and apply them with rollback. Evaluated on 20+ bugs using pass@k and fix@k, with ablations.

• TwinCausal

  Python · scikit-learn · FastAPI · Next.js

  Healthcare risk modeling on synthetic multi-site patient data without pooling records: federated training, digital-twin patient features, confounder-aware lifestyle analysis, and counterfactual intervention planning.

• Aletheia

  Python · Transformers · SHAP · React

  Multimodal bias and misinformation detection: sentence- and article-level bias classification with token-level explanations (92% interpretability), Gemini-based neutral rewrites, and CNN/YOLO detection of manipulated media (84% accuracy).

• IIITL Exam Cell Management System

  Java · Spring Boot · MySQL · React

  The campus exam-cell platform: OTP/JWT authentication, digitally signed PDF certificates, admin dashboards, and email and WhatsApp notifications. Cut response time by 23% and improved operational efficiency by 60%.

Skills

Languages

Python, C, C++, JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, SQL

ML & Data

PyTorch, TensorFlow, Keras, scikit-learn, Hugging Face Transformers, NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, Seaborn

Web & Backend

React, Next.js, Node.js, FastAPI, Flask, Streamlit, Spring Boot, Firebase, MySQL

Tools

Linux, Git & GitHub, VS Code, Jupyter, Google Colab, Kaggle

Experience

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  Software Engineering Intern (Incoming), Atlassian

  Summer 2027

  Bangalore office

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  Research Fellow, SPAR

  Sep 2026 – Present

  Mentor: Deeksha Dangwal (MATS, Cambridge ERA:AI)

  • AI safety research on constraint drift through delegation hierarchies.
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  Student Researcher, Agyeya Research

  Sep 2026 – Present

  Mentor: Dr. Pulkit Verma (IIT Madras)

  • India's first AI safety program: a three-month research mentorship with a fully funded stay and workshop at IISc Bangalore.
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  Adobe Student Insider

  Sep 2026 – Present

  Adobe's Partnership and Engagement Program

  • One of the top 100 students selected from 19,000+ applicants across India.
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  Student Fellow, Databricks

  Aug 2026 – Present

  Campus Ambassador and Mentorship Program

  • One of 38 students selected from 7,000+ applicants across Asia-Pacific and Japan.
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  Undergraduate Researcher, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  Jun 2026 – Present

  Mentor: Dr. Darko Marinov

  • Research on code generation by diffusion models and the trustworthiness and accuracy of the generated code.
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  Research Intern, IIT Bombay

  Jun – Aug 2026

  Mentor: Dr. Asim Tewari

  • Interdisciplinary machine learning research for the aviation industry.
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  Mentee, PayPal Career Academy for Tech

  Mar – Aug 2026

  PayPal's Early-Career Mentorship Program

  • One of 47 students selected from 13,000+ applicants across India.
  • Sessions on personal branding, design thinking, tech for good, and storytelling, plus a tech bootcamp.