PhD Candidate

University of Twente

• Working on developing attacks and defences against LLMs for safer deployment of LLM-enabled systems.

Applied AI Researcher

ServiceNow AI Research

• Worked towards improving multi-task performance of LLMs under low resource constraints. Paper accepted at EMNLP’26 Main conference.
• Worked on benchmarking content moderation in enterprise-level agentic systems.

Undergraduate Researcher

Center for Security, Theory & Algorithmic Research (CSTAR), IIIT Hyderabad

• Investigated ownership verification and watermarking of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) by implementing state-of-the-art methods. Guided by Dr. Ankit Gangwal.
• Worked on watermarking Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) for Link Prediction using PyTorch Geometric, evaluating across multiple architectures and real-world datasets. Work accepted at TMLR. Advised by Dr. Charu Sharma.

Research Assistant

CSTAR, IIIT Hyderabad

• Worked on multiple ML security problems such as Explainable AI (XAI), explanation-aware backdoor attacks, and adversarial attacks, culminating in a poster at AsiaCCS’25 and full paper at RAID’26.