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 censorship across countries, time, and LLMs.
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. My collaboration with researchers at MBZUAI through LibrAI for work in debiasing + uncertainty estimation1 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 (theory-of-mind, etc.) and trying to understand why 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!