About
Hello! I am a PhD researcher at the School of Computing & Augmented Intelligence, Arizona State University, where I am advised by Lindsay Sanneman and associated with the HEART AI Lab.
🔬 In my research, I investigate the performance of generative AI models at various reasoning tasks for sequential decision-making, explore how benchmarks assess relevant constructs, and design agentic frameworks that are reliable and trustworthy. My work is grounded in AI Reasoning, Planning, and Sequential Decision-Making frameworks. Take a look at my recent works here.
🤖 My research interests also span Human-AI Interaction & AI Alignment, exploring how humans can augment & align AI with guidance via {domain & commonsense} knowledge, preferences, intuition, etc. And how AI can assist humans by offering data, compute, {narrow & broad} intelligence capabilities. I also have a broader interest in Agentic AI Systems & Applications.
News & Updates
Recent Publications (Google Scholar)
- Metrics for Holistic Evaluation of LLM Reasoning about Action, Change, and Planning. NeurIPS 2025 Workshop on Evaluating the Evolving LLM Lifecycle: Benchmarks, Emergent Abilities, and Scaling, 2025.
- LLMs Need to Go Beyond Computational Confidence Metrics to Establish Trust. AAAI 2025 Symposium on AI Trustworthiness and Risk Assessment for Challenged Contexts (ATRACC-25), 2025. Proceedings of the AAAI Symposium Series, 7(1), 131–136. https://doi.org/10.1609/aaaiss.v7i1.36878
- Incorporating Human Flexibility Through Reward Preferences in Human-AI Teaming . Arxiv, 2024.
- Position: LLMs can’t plan, but can help planning in LLM-modulo frameworks. International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) as Spotlight, 2024.
Talks
- Deconstructing Gen AI Decision-Making: Towards Collaborative Human-AI Planning Frameworks. LinkedIn PhD Symposium, Mountain View, CA, USA, 2026.
- Proactive Agentic Dialogue Systems for Human-AI Co-Creation. ACM CHIIR Proactive & Personalized Agents Workshop, Seattle, WA, USA, 2026.
- Utility of Gen AI in Tiered Transparency for Trust in Proactive and Personalized Systems. ACM CHIIR Proactive & Personalized Agents Workshop, Seattle, WA, USA, 2026.
- Metrics for Holistic Evaluation of LLM Reasoning about Action, Change & Planning. AAAI 2026 Plan-FM Bridge, Singapore, 2026.
- Towards Collaborative Human-AI Reasoning Frameworks. ICAPS 2025 Doctoral Consortium, Melbourne, Australia, 2025.
- LLMs Need to Go Beyond Computational Confidence Metrics to Establish Trust. AAAI Symposium on AI Trustworthiness, Arlington, Virginia, USA, 2025.
Teaching
- TA, CSE 565 Software Verification, Validation & Testing. SCAI, Arizona State University, 2024.
- TA, CSE 571 Artificial Intelligence. SCAI, Arizona State University, 2023.
- TA, Intro to Informatics. SCAI, Arizona State University, 2023.
Service
- Program Committee, NeurIPS (Neural Information Processing Systems): 2024, 2025, 2026.
- Program Committee, ICML (International Conference on Machine Learning): 2025.
- Program Committee, AAAI Special Track on AI Alignment: 2025, 2026.
Before PhD, in what now feels like a previous life, I explored research in Information Theory and Network Coding at Texas A&M University, College Station, as a Graduate Merit Scholar in the Computer Engineering Systems Group. Prior to that, I worked in Sensor Fusion, Analytics, and Networks across Nokia Networks, Forus Health, and WIPRO Ltd. I also worked as a Software Engineer at Accenture and as a Consultant at the Board of IT Education Standards, Bengaluru.
I obtained my Bachelor’s degree with a major in Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering at PES Institute of Technology, Bengaluru, where my capstone thesis, ‘U-Sonic NFC: Ultrasonic Near-Field Communication’, was advised by Dr. Ramamoorthy Srinath (‘U-Sonic NFC’ was the first ultrasonic device-to-device data transfer prototype, before Google Tone Project).
I consider myself fortunate to have had the exposure and opportunity to work in many different technical fields, and immesely grateful to have met many people & made friends!
Hobbies & Interests
In my free time, I enjoy trekking and biking amongst other things. I have trekked in the Himalayas twice. I also listen to a wide variety of music and soundtracks, in many many different languages and dabble in video scoring & audio-visual mashups. I used to be a district-level Cricket player in my teens, and follow sporting events around the world, majorly Tennis and Formula 1.
This website is last updated: May 2026