Hi! I’m Neemesh.
I am currently working as a Research Engineer at SMU under Prof. Lim Ee-Peng’s group. My work at SMU primarily focuses on improving the Theory-of-Mind reasoning of LLM agents in contexts of counseling and game environments. I am also remotely collaborating with Prof. Zhijing Jin where we focus on content moderation and censorship in 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!

In addition to this, my favorite pastime involves playing League of Legends or soulslike games (think Elden Ring and Dark Souls) and watching anime or random YouTube videos.

I am currently looking for research opportunities (both PhD and industry level) for 2026!

News

• May 2025: Our work on improving transparency of content moderation and censorship in social media² was acecpted to ACL 2025 in Vienna, Austria!
• January 2025: Our work on debiasing¹, in collaboration with researchers at MBZUAI, was accepted to NAACL 2025 in Albuquerque, New Mexico!
• January 2025: Started as a Research Engineer at SMU working on Theory-of-Mind reasoning for agents.
• November 2024: My final UG work on benchmarking reasoning in LLMs³ accepted to COLING 2025 in Abu Dhabi, UAE!
• August 2024: Presented my undergraduate thesis work on explanation generation of hate speech⁴ 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!