Hi! I’m Neemesh.
I am currently working as a Research Engineer at SMU under Prof. Lim Ee-Peng’s group. My work primarily focuses on improving the Theory-of-Mind reasoning of LLM agents. I am also remotely collaborating with Dr. Zhijing Jin on exploring the optimality of sustainable cooperation between LLM agents in a more complex setting and exploring censorship decisions across countries.\
I graduated from IIIT Delhi with a B.Tech degree in 2024, where I also worked as a UG Researcher at the LCS2 lab. I was a Research Intern at MBZUAI, working with Prof. Preslav Nakov for their very first Undergraduate Research Intern Program (UGRIP) in the Summer of 2023. I recently collaborated with researchers at MBZUAI through LibrAI for work in debiasing + uncertainty estimation1 (which was accepted to NAACL’25!).\
My research interests lie mostly in Computational Social Science with some overlap with Interpretability (because it’s awesome!). More specifically, I am interested in exploring how or if LLMs are capable of reasoning and the dynamics of societal biases within them – from a causal lens; improving their social intelligence and trying to understand how they behave the way they do. I am devoted to building transparent, explainable, fair, and truthful AI.
In addition to this, my favorite pastime involves playing video games and watching anime or random YouTube videos.
I am currently looking for research opportunities (both PhD and industry level)!
News
- January 2025: Started as a Research Engineer at SMU working on Theory-of-Mind reasoning for agents.
- November 2024: My final UG work2 accepted to COLING 2025 in Abu Dhabi, UAE!
- August 2024: Presented my undergraduate thesis work3 accepted as Findings at ACL 2024, in Bangkok, Thailand! (my first in-person conference!)
- February 2024: Attended Google Research Week 2024 in Bangalore, India!
- May 2023: Started my undergraduate research internship at MBZUAI
- December 2022: Volunteered for ICON 2022.
- May 2022: Started my journey as an undergraduate researcher at LCS2!