BITS Pilani · Rajasthan, India
Advancing AI through rigorous research, responsible deployment, and real-world impact.
PhantomGrad is an AI research group at BITS Pilani, led by Professor Dhruv Kumar, a leading AI scientist, professor, and consultant in India. We work at the intersection of large language models, intelligent systems, and real-world applications — spanning foundational research on LLM evaluation, interpretability, and training, and applied projects in education, software engineering, environmental science, and beyond. We partner with industry, government agencies, and NGOs to translate research into impact.
Research Focus
Evaluation, benchmarking, and applications of large language models in real-world settings.
Intelligent tutoring, automated assessment, and understanding LLM impact on learning.
Code generation, test synthesis, type inference, and formal verification with LLMs.
Understanding internal representations and circuits within transformer models.
Vision, time series, and tabular foundation models and their adaptation.
Policy optimization, fine-tuning strategies, and hybrid learning frameworks.
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