Pavan Maddula

India

I work on AI Agents and Model evaluations, with a particular focus on model behaviour, agentic decision-making, adversarial robustness, and red-teaming.

Looking for AI researcher and research engineering roles. Open to relocation or remote.

Research

Lookup Is Not All You Need

arXiv soon

Pavan Maddula

Accepted at NeurIPS 2026 Workshop (EvoRobust). The papers will be on arXiv and the official site soon.

NeurIPS 2026 Workshop (EvoRobust)

M P V S Gopinadh, Karthik Kamuju, Kummari Avinash, Muppana John Joshua, Srinivasa Raju Rudraraju

In a controlled synthetic setting, standard RLHF aggregates heterogeneous preferences into a single reward model. When preferences conflict, majority modes can dominate reward learning, leaving minority preferences under-represented.

ICLR 2026 Workshop (AFAA)
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Work Experience

Applied AI Intern

Jul 2025 – Nov 2025Singapore team, SGT
  • Built an AI-powered recruitment system using agents and automations for candidate sourcing, resume screening, and evaluation, cutting manual recruitment effort and turnaround time.
  • Developed a vendor research agent that aggregates client information, tracks news, and surfaces structured insights - conferences, keynotes, product launches, strategic updates.
  • Designed the action plan and architecture for an in-house talent pool platform using LLM + RAG pipelines for long-term candidate retention and intelligent discovery.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to integrate these systems into existing workflows and translate business needs into agent-based solutions.

Education

Projects

Internal Smart India Hackathon Winner 2025. Application-layer email encryption using IBM quantum key material, post-quantum crypto, and AES over standard SMTP.

Technologies Used:

Quantum Key MaterialPost-Quantum CryptographyEmail Protocols

Amaravati Quantum Valley Hackathon Winner 2025. Hybrid quantum–classical router that turns perishable-goods delivery into a QUBO and solves it with QAOA.

Technologies Used:

QAOAQuantum AnnealingQUBOAILogistics OptimizationFood Supply Chain

Voice legal assistant in Indic languages that walks a user through court processes, translates filings, and connects to e-Courts / Tele-Law.

Technologies Used:

React JSExpress JSTailwind CSSPythonLangChainGemini API
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GitHub

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Languages

  • TeluguNative
  • EnglishBilingual
  • HindiConversational
  • SpanishLearning
  • ChineseLearning

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