Mar 2026 Roamify accepted at The Web Conference (WWW 2026) — LLM-based personalised itinerary planning Chrome extension. Paper ↗
Jan 2026 Sakshm AI accepted at ACM Journal on Computing and Sustainable Societies (JCSS 2026) — Socratic AI tutor for coding education in India. Paper ↗
Nov 2025 Loop Invariant Generation paper wins Best Paper Award at AIWare 2025. Paper ↗
Oct 2025 Two papers accepted at EMNLP 2025 — Pedagogical Teacher-Student LLM Agents (main conference) and ReviewEval (findings). View ↗
Sep 2025 time2time paper accepted at NeurIPS 2025 Workshop on Recent Advances in Time Series Foundation Models (BERT2S). Paper ↗
Aug 2025 Rubric Is All You Need accepted at ACM ICER 2025 — improving LLM-based code evaluation with question-specific rubrics. Paper ↗
May 2025 The Impact of LLMs on K-12 Education in Rural India published in Scientific Reports. Paper ↗
Mar 2025 The Role of Generative AI in Mechanical Engineering Education published in Scientific Reports. Paper ↗
Feb 2025 DebateBench accepted at NAACL Student Research Workshop 2025. Paper ↗
Feb 2025 Analyzing LLM Usage in an Advanced Computing Class accepted at ACE 2025. Paper ↗
Nov 2024 ₹20L grant awarded by BITS Pilani for "Revolutionizing Indian Higher Education Institutes with Generative AI" (Nov 2024 – Oct 2026). Details ↗
Aug 2024 ₹30L grant from WISE–IIE Higher Education Consortium for Generative AI in Education research. Details ↗
Aug 2024 ₹25L grant from The Nature Conservancy for AI for River–Climate Modeling. Details ↗
May 2024 Dr. Dhruv Kumar joins BITS Pilani as Assistant Professor and founds PhantomGrad. People ↗
Jan 2024 Google Cloud Education Grant of ₹12.5L awarded to support AI/LLM research at BITS Pilani. Details ↗
May 2023 AggFirstJoin wins Best Paper Award at IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2023. Paper ↗