Dr. Dushyant Chauhan
Postdoctoral Associate at MBZUAI, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Bio
| 2025–now | Postdoctoral Associate, | MBZUAI, UAE |
| 2024–25 | Senior AI Engineer, | KrtrimaIQ, India |
| 2024 | AI/ML Scientist, | Adroitent, Inc., India |
| 2018–25 | PhD in CSE, | IIT Patna, India |
| 2015–17 | M.Tech in CSE, | NIT Rourkela, India |
About
Hi, I’m Dushyant 👋. I am a Postdoctoral Associate at MBZUAI in Abu Dhabi, working with Dr. Nils Lukas. I am also leading an applied research collaboration with Etihad Airways on the development of a multilingual conversational chatbot for flight booking, customer support, and other aviation services. I received my PhD from IIT Patna under Prof. Asif Ekbal and Late Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya, focused on multimodal analysis and fusion techniques.
My research focuses on (i) LLM reasoning, (ii) AI safety & security, (iii) Multimodal analysis, and (iv) Human-AI Interaction.
Latest News
| Aug 21, 2026 | 🔥 Paper accepted at EMNLP 2026 (Rank A*) – “CopyShield: A Cross-Level Benchmark of Copyright Defenses in LLMs”. |
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| Apr 30, 2026 | 🔥 Paper accepted at IJCAI 2026 (Rank A*) – “Addressing Overcommitment in the Reasoning of Gendered Economic Memes under Multimodal Ambiguity”. |
| Sep 01, 2025 | 🔥 Joined MBZUAI as a Postdoctoral Associate, working with Dr. Nils Lukas on reasoning in LLMs, privacy/security of LLMs, and multimodal analysis. |
| May 01, 2025 | 🔥 Paper accepted at IJCAI 2025 (Rank A*) – “What is Beneath Misogyny: Misogynous Memes Classification and Explanation”. |
| Apr 01, 2025 | 🔥 Paper accepted at NAACL 2025 (Rank A) – “Target-Augmented Shared Fusion-based Multimodal Sarcasm Explanation Generation”. |