Publications, grants, awards, and lab updates — latest first.
Apr 2026Beyond Accuracy preprint — nine-dimension framework for diagnosing algebraic reasoning failures in LLMs.Paper ↗
Apr 2026LUDOBENCH preprint — benchmark for evaluating LLM strategic reasoning through Ludo board game scenarios.Paper ↗
Apr 2026LLM-as-a-Judge for Time Series Explanations preprint — evaluating factual correctness of LLM-generated time series explanations.Paper ↗
Apr 2026BLEND accepted at The Web Conference (WWW 2026) — balanced and leaf-enhanced dual fine-tuning for taxonomy completion.View ↗
Apr 2026From Trust to Compromise accepted at ACL 2026 (Main Conference) — outcome-verified LLM phishing simulation and real-time defense.View ↗
Apr 2026Two papers accepted at ICLR 2026 Workshop on LLM Reasoning — The Language of Bargaining: Linguistic Effects in LLM Negotiations, and From Facts to Conclusions: Integrating Deductive Reasoning in Retrieval-Augmented LLMs.View ↗
Mar 2026PhantomGrad receives ₹34.8L grant from Gujarat Police for SPANDAN — an AI/ML project to strengthen police investigation processes and improve conviction outcomes, under an MoU between Gujarat Police and BITS Pilani.View ↗
Mar 2026Roamify accepted at The Web Conference (WWW 2026) — LLM-based personalised itinerary planning Chrome extension.Paper ↗
Jan 2026Sakshm AI accepted at ACM Journal on Computing and Sustainable Societies (JCSS 2026) — Socratic AI tutor for coding education in India.Paper ↗
Nov 2025Loop Invariant Generation paper wins Best Paper Award at AIWare 2025.Paper ↗
Oct 2025Two papers accepted at EMNLP 2025 — Pedagogical Teacher-Student LLM Agents (main conference) and ReviewEval (findings).View ↗
Sep 2025time2time paper accepted at NeurIPS 2025 Workshop on Recent Advances in Time Series Foundation Models (BERT2S).Paper ↗
Aug 2025Rubric Is All You Need accepted at ACM ICER 2025 — improving LLM-based code evaluation with question-specific rubrics.Paper ↗
May 2025The Impact of LLMs on K-12 Education in Rural India published in Scientific Reports.Paper ↗
Mar 2025The Role of Generative AI in Mechanical Engineering Education published in Scientific Reports.Paper ↗
Feb 2025DebateBench accepted at NAACL Student Research Workshop 2025.Paper ↗
Feb 2025Analyzing 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 2024Dr. Dhruv Kumar joins BITS Pilani as Assistant Professor and founds PhantomGrad.People ↗
Jan 2024Google Cloud Education Grant of ₹12.5L awarded to support AI/LLM research at BITS Pilani.Details ↗
May 2023AggFirstJoin wins Best Paper Award at IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2023.Paper ↗