Agam Goyal
Scholar

Agam Goyal

Google Scholar ID: lpqh8B0AAAAJ
CS PhD Student, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Natural Language ProcessingHuman-AI InteractionSocial ComputingComputational Social Science
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
217
 
H-index
6
 
i10-index
5
 
Publications
13
 
Co-authors
5
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Three papers accepted to EMNLP Main 2025; one paper accepted to ICWSM 2026; one paper accepted to the Actionable Interpretability Workshop @ ICML; gave a talk on detoxification of LLMs using SAEs at the AImpact Center @ UIUC; one paper on small language models for content moderation accepted to NAACL 2025 (Main) as an Oral talk.
Research Experience
  • Worked as a Research Intern at Adobe Research, mentored by Dr. Apoorv Saxena and Dr. Koyel Mukherjee.
Education
  • Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, co-advised by Prof. Hari Sundaram and Prof. Eshwar Chandrasekharan; Undergraduate in Computer Science, Mathematics, and Data Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, advised by Prof. Hanbaek Lyu and Prof. Junjie Hu.
Background
  • Research interests include sociotechnical systems (especially LLMs) and how they shape social interactions. Focuses on understanding model safety, modeling social interaction, and improving outcomes through system design.
Miscellany
  • Undergraduates with a strong background in ML/NLP and experience with PyTorch are welcome to reach out to agamg2@illinois.edu for research opportunities.