News
| Jan 02, 2026 | Cloud Support: Received Google Cloud Research Credits ($5,000 USD) to support ongoing research initiatives. |
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| Jan 02, 2026 | Presentation: Six papers selected for the Global South Research & Posters Showcase, a Govt. of India Initiative at the Research Symposium on AI and its Impact, Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi, as part of the India AI Impact Summit 2026. |
| Dec 27, 2025 | Recognition: Three papers nominated for ACM ARCS 2026 as India representative papers from premier A* venues — (1) SafeInfer: Context Adaptive Decoding Time Safety Alignment for Large Language Models, (2) Soteria: Language-Specific Functional Parameter Steering for Multilingual Safety Alignment, (3) Navigating the Cultural Kaleidoscope: A Hitchhiker's Guide to Sensitivity in Large Language Models. |
| Dec 24, 2025 | 📢 I am pleased to share that I will be conducting a tutorial at AACL-IJCNLP 2025 in Mumbai, India with Dr. Rima Hazra and Prof. Animesh Mukherjee , titled “Beyond Guardrails: Advanced Safety for Large Language Models — Monolingual, Multilingual and Multimodal Frontiers.” 🔗 For more details, please visit: AACL-IJCNLP 2025 Tutorials, Softminer Trace |
| Dec 15, 2025 | Research Grant: Awarded the prestigious ANRF-ARG Grant (~₹1 Crore) in collaboration with Prof. Animesh Mukherjee, IIT Kharagpur. PhD positions will be available soon. |
| Dec 08, 2025 | 🎉 Two new papers are out! 🎯 "Attributional Safety Failures in Large Language Models under Code-Mixed Perturbations" with Microsoft and "ProSocialAlign: Preference Conditioned Test Time Alignment in Language Models" with TU/e. |
| Nov 15, 2025 | 🎉 Paper accepted at AAAI 2026! 🎯 "AURA: Affordance-Understanding and Risk-aware Alignment Technique for Large Language Models" |
| Nov 12, 2025 | 📢 I am pleased to share that I have received an invitation from NIMHANS (National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences), India to deliver a talk on “Responsible AI for Psychiatry in India." 🔗 "For more details, please visit: Heads AI" |
| Oct 23, 2025 | 🎉 Paper accepted at TMLR 2025! 🎯 "MemeSense: An Adaptive In-Context Framework for Social Commonsense Driven Meme Moderation" |
| Sep 15, 2025 | 🎉 Paper accepted at EMNLP 2025! 🎯 "Soteria: Language-Specific Functional Parameter Steering for Multilingual Safety Alignment" |
| Feb 22, 2025 | 🎉 Two new papers are out! 🎯 "Soteria: Language-Specific Functional Parameter Steering for Multilingual Safety Alignment" and "MemeSense: An Adaptive In-Context Framework for Social Commonsense Driven Meme Moderation" |
| Feb 13, 2025 | 🎉 Paper accepted at NAACL 2025 Industry! 🎯 "Breaking Boundaries: Investigating the Effects of Model Editing on Cross-linguistic Performance" |
| Jan 23, 2025 | 🎉 Paper accepted at NAACL 2025 Main! 🎯 "Navigating the Cultural Kaleidoscope: A Hitchhiker's Guide to Sensitivity in Large Language Models" |
| Dec 14, 2024 | 🎉 Paper accepted at AAAI 2025 AI Alignment Track! 🎯 "SafeInfer: Context Adaptive Decoding Time Safety Alignment for Large Language Models" |
| Sep 15, 2024 | 🎉 Paper accepted at EMNLP 2024 Main! 🎯 "Safety Arithmetic: A Framework for Test-time Safety Alignment of Language Models by Steering Parameters and Activations" |