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.
Evaluates how open-weight language models respond to harmful requests written in non-canonical forms such as emojis, leetspeak, homoglyphs, Base64, and invisible Unicode. Introduces the Adversarial Surface-Form Robustness Dataset (ASRD) and the Quad-State Evaluation Rubric (harmful compliance, safe response, comprehension failure, indeterminate).
NeurIPS 2026 Workshop (EvoRobust)
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.
Safety evaluations of LLMs predominantly use text-based adversarial prompts. This paper evaluates 50 emoji-augmented prompts on four open-source models as a test of that gap.
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.
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.
Internal Smart India Hackathon Winner 2025. Application-layer email encryption using IBM quantum key material, post-quantum crypto, and AES over standard SMTP.
Amaravati Quantum Valley Hackathon Winner 2025. Hybrid quantum–classical router that turns perishable-goods delivery into a QUBO and solves it with QAOA.