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Contact Information

Name Dushyant Singh Chauhan
Professional Title Postdoctoral Associate
Email Dushyant.Chauhan@mbzuai.ac.ae
Location Abu Dhabi, Masdar City

Professional Summary

Postdoctoral Associate at MBZUAI, UAE. Research on reasoning in LLMs, privacy/security of LLMs, and multimodal analysis.

Experience

  • 2026 - Present

    Abu Dhabi, UAE

    Postdoctoral Associate
    Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI)
    Working with Dr. Nils Lukas on reasoning in LLMs, privacy/security of LLMs, and multimodal analysis. Industry collaboration with Etihad Airways on conversational AI chatbots.
    • Reasoning in Large Language Models
    • Privacy and Security of LLMs
    • Multimodal Analysis
    • Conversational AI (Etihad Airways collaboration)
  • 2025 - Present

    Noida, India

    Founder & CEO
    CortexTor Labs, Pvt. Ltd.
    AI-adaptive systems for education - multimodal RAG-based QA, mathematical reasoning, video generation, and visual storytelling.
  • 2024 - 2025

    Bangalore, India

    Senior AI Engineer
    KrtrimaIQ, Ltd.
    Agentic-AI frameworks, LLM fine-tuning, RAG pipelines, mathematical reasoning, and AI-powered teaching assistant.
    • Mathematical Reasoning (Olympiad-level)
    • Teaching Assistant for exam question generation
  • 2024 - 2024

    Princeton, New Jersey, USA

    AI/ML Scientist
    Adroitent, Inc.
    Routing RAG agents, LLM integration, DROIT search engine, video interview analysis, and medical domain AI solutions.
  • 2018 - 2018

    Patna, Bihar, India

    Senior Research Fellow
    Indian Institute of Technology Patna

Education

  • 2018 - 2025

    Patna, Bihar, India

    Ph.D.
    Indian Institute of Technology Patna
    Computer Science & Engineering
    • CGPA: 7.79/10
    • Thesis: Investigating Multimodal Analysis and Fusion Techniques
    • Supervisors: Prof. Asif Ekbal (IIT Jodhpur) and Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya (IIT Bombay)
  • 2015 - 2017

    Rourkela, Odisha, India

    M.Tech
    National Institute of Technology Rourkela
    Computer Science & Engineering
    • CGPA: 8.55/10
    • Thesis: Modeling Person Re-identification through Hypergraphs
  • 2010 - 2014

    Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India

    B.Tech
    Meerut Institute of Engineering and Technology
    Computer Science & Engineering
    • Percentage: 74.12%

Awards

  • 2020
    Prime Minister's Fellowship for Doctoral Research
    Science & Engineering Research Board (SERB), Government of India

    Awarded the prestigious PM Fellowship for doctoral research.

  • 2015
    MHRD Scholarship for GATE Qualification
    Ministry of Human Resource Development, India
  • 2014
    Virtual Piano (VIANO) Project Award
    Foundation for Advancement of Education and Research, Bangalore, India

Skills

Deep Learning & AI (Expert): PyTorch, Keras, Transformers, LLMs, Multimodal LLMs, Reasoning in LLMs, RAG, Multi-agent RAG
LLM Privacy & Security (Expert): Membership Inference, Adversarial Robustness, Watermarking, Differential Privacy, Jailbreaks, Prompt Injection
NLP & Computer Vision (Expert): Sentiment Analysis, Emotion Recognition, Sarcasm Detection, Multimodal Fusion, Conversational AI
Programming (Expert): Python, PyTorch, Keras, Pandas, NumPy

Languages

Hindi : Native speaker
English : Fluent

Interests

AI & NLP Research: Reasoning in LLMs, Privacy/Security of LLMs, Multimodal Analysis, Conversational AI, Human-AI Interaction, Mathematical Reasoning

References

  • Dr. Nils Lukas

    Postdoctoral Supervisor. Department of Machine Learning, Mohamed bin Zayed University of AI, UAE. Email: nils.lukas@mbzuai.ac.ae

  • Prof. Asif Ekbal

    PhD Thesis Supervisor. Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, India. Email: asif@iitj.ac.in

  • Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya

    PhD Thesis Supervisor. Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India. Email: pb@cse.iitb.ac.in