Aishwarya Maheswaran

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Joint PhD student at IIT Hyderabad India and Swinburne Institute of Technology Australia

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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.


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Publications

  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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