Co-led development of PurpCode—the first reasoning model for cybersafety using Deliberative Alignment—winner of the Amazon Nova AI Challenge 2025 ($250k prize)
PurpCode paper accepted at NeurIPS 2025
Summer 2024 internship work at LG AI Research accepted at AAAI Good Data Workshop 2025
Work on evading phishing detectors using diffusion models accepted at USENIX Security Symposium 2024
Research on watermarking fine-tuned LLM-generated text accepted at ACL 2021 (Findings)
RecipeDB large-scale recipe dataset published in Database: The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation (Oxford University Press, IF=5.8)
Work on identifying anomalous users in YouTube black market accepted at AAAI-ICWSM
Received Dean’s Thesis Appreciation Award at IIIT Delhi in 2021
Selected to represent UIUC at the Catalyzing Advocacy in Science and Engineering Workshop in Washington, 2024