Our Team

Meet the innovative minds driving research at the KAI2 Lab.

Manas Gaur

Manas Gaur

Principal Investigator, Assistant Professor

UMBC
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Research Scholars

Ali Mohammadi

Ali Mohammadi

PhD Student

UMBC
Artifical IntelligenceMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingExplainabilityInterpretability
Nilanjana Das

Nilanjana Das

PhD Student

UMBC
Adversarial AttacksMechanistic InterpretabilityAI Safety and Security
Sarvesh Baskar

Sarvesh Baskar

Visiting Research Scholar

BITS Pilani Goa Campus
Seyedreza Mohseni

Seyedreza Mohseni

PhD Student

UMBC
Code Generative LLMsCode Obfuscation and DeobfuscationCybersecurity
Shaswati Saha

Shaswati Saha

PhD Student

UMBC
Concept ErasureComputer Vision
Yash Saxena

Yash Saxena

PhD Student

UMBC
Information RetrievalSource AttributionTrustworthy AINeurosymbolic AI

Masters Students

Benjamin Lagnese

Benjamin Lagnese

Masters Student

UMBC
Gayatri Kothuri

Gayatri Kothuri

Masters Student

UMBC
Gerald Ndawula

Gerald Ndawula

Masters Student

UMBC
Saksham Kumar Sharma

Saksham Kumar Sharma

Masters Student

UMBC

Undergraduate Students

Mathew Dawit

Mathew Dawit

Sophmore

UMBC

Collaborators

Aman Chadha

Aman Chadha

Generative AI Leadership

Industry -- AWS
Ankur Padia

Ankur Padia

Director

Industry -- Liberty Mutual Insurance
Anupam Joshi

Anupam Joshi

Vice Provost and Chief AI Officer

Academia --UMBC
Ashutosh Modi

Ashutosh Modi

Associate Professor

Academia -- IIT Kanpur (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur)
Biplav Srivastava

Biplav Srivastava

Professor

Academia -- AI Institute, USC
Francis Ferraro

Francis Ferraro

Assistant Professor

Academia -- UMBC
Harsha Kokel

Harsha Kokel

Research Scientist

Industry -- IBM
Hemank Lamba

Hemank Lamba

Senior Research Scientist

Industry -- Dataminr
Jeffrey Davis

Jeffrey Davis

Professor

Academia -- UMBC
Kalpa Gunaratna

Kalpa Gunaratna

Staff Research Scientist

Industry -- Samsung Research America
Kamalika Das

Kamalika Das

Principal AI Research Scientist, Manager

Industry -- Intuit
Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan

Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan

Professor

Academia -- Wright State University
Mandar Chaudhary

Mandar Chaudhary

Applied Researcher

Industry -- eBay
Ponnurangam Kumaraguru

Ponnurangam Kumaraguru

Professor

Academia -- IIIT Hyderabad
Prasoon Goyal

Prasoon Goyal

Applied Scientist

Industry -- Amazon
Pulin Agrawal

Pulin Agrawal

Assistant Professor

Academia -- Penn State University
Sanorita Dey

Sanorita Dey

Assistant Professor

Academia -- UMBC
Srinivasan Parthasarathy

Srinivasan Parthasarathy

Professor

Academia -- Ohio State University
Sujit Singh

Sujit Singh

CEO and Founder

Industry -- Neural Nest
Tim Finin

Tim Finin

Professor

Academia -- UMBC

Alumni

Aayush Jannumahanti

Aayush Jannumahanti

Senior Python Engineer

Bristol Myers Squibb
Anmol Agrawal

Anmol Agrawal

Graduate Student

Carnegie Mellon University
Atmika Gorti

Atmika Gorti

Undergraduate Student

Purdue University
AI SafetyAI Integrated RoboticsLarge Language Models
Batool Haider

Batool Haider

Undergraduate Student

University of Maryland, College Park
Harisahan Nookala Venkata

Harisahan Nookala Venkata

Software Engineer - Speech AI

Comcast
Nancy Tyagi

Nancy Tyagi

Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder

PostCare.AI
Priyanshul Govil

Priyanshul Govil

Research Engineer

IBM
Shrey Gupta

Shrey Gupta

Member of Technical Staff

Cartesia
Sreeram Vennam

Sreeram Vennam

Masters Student

Carnegie Mellon University
Sriram Vema

Sriram Vema

Masters Student

University of Maryland, College Park
Surjodeep Sarkar

Surjodeep Sarkar

Chief Operating Officer & Co-Founder

PostCare.AI
Vamshi Bonagiri

Vamshi Bonagiri

PhD Student

MBZUAI (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence)
Vamsi Aribandi

Vamsi Aribandi

Founding Member of Technical Staff

Yutori.com