I am a 4th year PhD student currently at Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad. I work in Natural Language Processing with focus on methods for controllable text generation.
My research intrests are in developing empathetic emotion support systems controlling for desirable attributes like empathy. Currently I am intrested in using interpretability techniques like Representational Engineering to control the inner representations in models to make them generated appropriatly controlled text. My PhD supervisor at IITH is Dr. Maunendra Sankar Deskar. My Co-guide from Swinburne University is Dr. Caslon Chua.
Updates
- 2025: Paper Accepted:
Probing the Inherent Ability of Large Language Models for Generating Empathetic Responses
at IEEE Swiss Conference on Data Science, SDS.
- 2024: Grateful to recevive travel grants from ACM/IARCS and PAKDD conference to attend PAKDD.
- 2024: Paper Accepted:
DAC: Quantized Optimal Transport Reward-based Reinforcement Learning Approach to Detoxify Query Auto-Completion
at SIGIR.
- 2024: Paper Accepted:
DQAC: Detoxifying Query Auto-completion with Adapters
at PAKDD.
- 2024: Visited Swinburne University, Melbourne for roughly a year as part of the joint program.
- 2023: Grateful to be part of the Microsoft Academic Partnership Grant.
- 2021: Started my PhD at Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad.
Publications
- Probing the Inherent Ability of Large Language Models for Generating Empathetic Responses recently accepted, yet to be published, author list: Maheswaran, A., Chua, Caslon, Desarkar, M.S. In: 12th IEEE Swiss Conference on Data Science.SDS 2025
- DAC: Quantized Optimal Transport Reward-based Reinforcement Learning Approach to Detoxify Query Auto-Completion Paper link Author list: Maheswaran, A., Maurya, K.K., Gupta, M., Desarkar, M.S, in SIGIR 2024
- DQAC: Detoxifying Query Auto-Completion with Adapters Publication, Paper link, Author list: Maheswaran, A., Maurya, K.K. Gupta, M., Desarkar, M.S. In: Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining.PAKDD 2024
- Adversarial Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Hand Gesture Recognition Using Thermal Images Paper link, Author list: A. Dayal, M. Aishwarya, S. Abhilash, C. K. Mohan, A. Kumar and L. R. Cenkeramaddi, in IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 3493-3504, 15 Feb.15, 2023, doi: 10.1109/JSEN.2023.3235379