Curriculum Vitae
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shashwatnow@gmail.com
Education
ELLIS Institute and Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen
Advisors: Jonas Geiping and Douwe Kiela
International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Hyderabad
GPA: 9.60/10
Thesis: New Frontiers for Machine Unlearning, advised by Prof. Ponnurangam K.
Experience
Mentor: Dan Hendrycks
Project: AutoML for Tree-based and linear ensembles to find alpha across datasets
Advisors: Jerome Lang, Dominik Peters
Mentor: Tanmoy Chakroborty
Mentors: Matteo Monti, Rachid Guerraroui
Mentors: Mikel Forcada, Jorge Gracia
Publications
Great Models Think Alike and this Undermines AI Oversight
Shashwat Goel, Joschka Strüber, Ilze Amanda Auzina, Karuna Chandra, P. Kumaraguru, Douwe Kiela, Ameya Prabhu, Matthias Bethge, Jonas Geiping
ArXiv preprint, 2025.
[code], [tool], [data]Corrective Machine Unlearning
Shashwat Goel*, Ameya Prabhu*, Philip Torr, P. Kumaraguru, Amartya Sanyal
Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR) 2024
Workshop on Data-centric Machine Learning (DMLR) - Recommended for Journal (Top 15) at the 12th International Conference on Representation Learning (ICLR), 2024.
[twitter], [code]The WMDP Benchmark: Measuring and Reducing Malicious Use with Unlearning
Center for AI Safety, Scale AI
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2024.
[media], [webpage], [code]Proportional Aggregation of Preferences for Sequential Decision Making
Nikhil Chandak, Shashwat Goel, Dominik Peters
Outstanding Paper Award (top 3 out of 12,000+ submissions) at 38th Annual Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2024.
[twitter], [talk]Representation Engineering: A Top-Down Approach to AI Transparency
Center for AI Safety
ArXiv, 2023.
[talk], [webpage], [code]Probing Negation in Language Models
Shashwat Singh*, Shashwat Goel*, Saujas Vaduguru, Ponnurangam Kumaraguru
8th Workshop on Representation Learning for NLP (RepL4NLP)
61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2023.
[code]Towards Adversarial Evaluations of Inexact Machine Unlearning
Shashwat Goel*, Ameya Prabhu*, Amartya Sanyal, Ser-Nam Lim, Phillip Torr, Ponnurangam Kumaraguru
ArXiv, 2023.
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Honours and Awards
- Outstanding Paper Award (Top 3/12,000+), AAAI Conference in Vancouver, Canada, 2024
- Outstanding Reviewer (Top 10%): ICML 2022, ICLR DMLR Workshop 2024
- Finalist (Top 50/3000+), ACM-ICPC Indian Regionals, 2020
- Honorable Mention, International Olympiad of Linguistics, 2019
- National Rank 6, International Olympiad of Informatics Indian Team Selection, 2019
- Grand Prize Winner (1/1500+), NASA Ames Space Settlement Design Contest, 2017
Teaching Experience
- Head Teaching Assistant, Responsible and Safe AI, IIIT Hyderabad, Spring 2024
- Facilitator, AI Safety Fundamentals, BlueDot Impact, Spring 2023
- Teaching Assistant, Topics in DL (Graph Neural Networks), IIIT Hyderabad, Spring 2023
- Teaching Assistant, Automata Theory, IIIT Hyderabad, Fall 2022
Academic Service and Outreach
- Reviewer: CoLLAs 2024, ICLR DMLR Workshop 2024, AISTATS 2024, CoLLAs 2023, CODS-COMAD 2023, ICML 2022
- Trainer, Indian Team Selection for the International Olympiad of Informatics (IOI) 2020
University Groups
- ML Reading Group @IIIT-H (Founder)
- Effective Altruism Group @IIIT-H (Founder)
- Theory Group @IIIT-H (Former Admin)
- Programming Club @IIIT-H (Former Admin)
- Parliamentary Debate Team @IIIT-H
- Ping! Student Magazine @IIIT-H (Editor)
last updated: July 23, 2024