I am a PhD student in Computer Science at North Carolina State University, advised by Dr. Tim Menzies. I work on efficient AI for Software Engineering.
I will be interning at Google Cloud in Seattle during Summer 2026. Feel free to reach out if you're in the area!
Research
My research focuses on LLMs and agentic AI systems for active learning, differential fuzzing, and reasoning distillation.
Current projects:
- Can domain knowledge improve LLM generated warm starts for SE optimization?
- Are LLM agents good differential oracles?
- Label efficient text mining in Literature Reviews (Active learning): EZR - Easier AI
During my masters at NC State, I worked with Dr. Jiajia Li on accelerating compressed/tensorized transformers. In my undergrad, I worked at the AeroAcoustics lab at IIT Madras on complex-valued regression to localize and reconstruct acoustic signals. At Robert Bosch Centre for Data Science and AI I worked on predictive modeling for NPTEL & 108 Ambulance service.
Milestones/News
- 01/2026: New preprint! SmartOracle: An Agentic Approach to Mitigate Noise in Differential Oracles
- 01/2026: MOOT: accepted at MSR 2026! See you in Rio!
- 11/2025: New preprint! MOOT:a Repository of Many Multi-Objective Optimization Tasks
- 10/2025: New preprint on efficient uncertainty quantification
- 08/2025: Joined NC State as a PhD student
- 06/2024: Summer internship working on LLM Infra - Zero shot graph generation (Graph-RAG)
- 04/2024: New preprint on uncertainty quantification for OOD detection
- 08/2023: Joined NC State as a Masters student
- 02/2023: Published JASA paper on near-field acoustic holography using ML
- 08/2022: Joined Poshmark as a Software Engineer
- 01/2022: Joined Kaleris as a Software Engineer intern
- 07/2021: Joined Renault as a Software Engineer intern
Selected Publications
Teaching Assistantships
CSC491/591: How to be a SWE Guru (Spring 2026 at NC State)
CSC591: Applied AI to Industry (Spring 2025 at NC State)
CSC591: Parallel Algorithms (Fall 2024 at NC State)
Mentoring
Masters Students
Sanjana Shreenivas (Summer 2025)
Undergrad Students
Manish Chepuri (Summer 2025)
Gaurinath Subash (Summer 2025)