Karthik Valmeekam
Scholar

Karthik Valmeekam

Google Scholar ID: CrYLDt4AAAAJ
Student, Arizona State University
Large Language ModelsAutomated PlanningLLM ReasoningHuman Aware AIExplainable AI Planning
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
2,314
 
H-index
15
 
i10-index
19
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
5
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Recipient of the 2024 IBM PhD Fellowship Award.
  • Paper '(How) Do reasoning models reason?' to appear in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2025.
  • Paper 'A Systematic Evaluation of the Planning and Scheduling Abilities of the Reasoning Model o1' to appear in TMLR, 2025.
  • Paper 'On the Self-Verification Limitations of Large Language Models on Reasoning and Planning Tasks' accepted to ICLR 2025.
  • Paper 'Chain of thoughtlessness? An Analysis of CoT in Planning' accepted as a poster at NeurIPS 2024.
  • Paper 'LLMs Can't Plan, But Can Help Planning in LLM-Modulo Frameworks' accepted as a Spotlight Position Paper at ICML 2024.
  • Preprint on OpenAI's o1 model evaluation on PlanBench released on arXiv in May 2024.
Education
  • 2021–Present: Ph.D. in Computer Science at Arizona State University, GPA 4.0/4.0, advised by Prof. Subbarao Kambhampati.
  • 2019–2021: M.S. in Computer Science at Arizona State University, GPA 4.0/4.0, advised by Prof. Subbarao Kambhampati; thesis titled 'A Study of Explainable Decision Support for Longitudinal Sequential Decision Making'.
  • 2015–2019: B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering at Vellore Institute of Technology, GPA 9.19/10.0; research aide under Prof. Anuradha J.
  • 2013–2015: Intermediate (11th & 12th Std) at Narayana Junior College, Hyderabad, India; scored 95.1%.
  • 2007–2013: Completed 10th Std at Indian School Ibra, Oman; GPA 9.8/10.0.