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PhD student @umdcs, Member of @ClipUmd lab | Earlier @AdobeResearch, @IITRoorkee

Navita Goyal

while steering methods effectively control target behavior, they substantially increase LLMs’ vulnerability to jailbreaks, revealing a failure of robust specificity. If you’re at EACL, stop by my poster at 9AM today to hear more. Here's a link to the full paper: aclanthology.org/2026.eacl-lo...

Interested in interpretability, data attribution, evaluation, and similar topics? Interested in doing a postdoc with me? Apply to the prestigious Azrieli program! Link below 👇 DMs are open (email is good too!)

My lab at BU is recruiting PhD students and possibly a postdoc this year! We study humans & machines, centered around topics like meaning, generalization, evaluation methods and design, and the nature of computation and representation that underlie language and cognition. 🫴🫴

What can cognitive science learn from AI? In infinitefaculty.substack.com/p/what-cogni... I outline how AI has found that scale and richness of learning experiences fundamentally change learning & generalization — and how I believe we should rethink cognitive experiments & theories in response.

This call is still open. I am looking to recruit, as well as many other faculty at Cornell. We review folders as they come, and will send offers until all positions are filled. Please share with your network 🙏

Thanks WiAIR (@wiair.bsky.social‬) for featuring my work on your YouTube channel. Watch the video to hear about our work on inference-time steering — and why these interventions LLMs may not be as “precise” as they look.

In this work, we argue that evaluating efficacy alone isn’t enough. Steering has two sides — efficacy and specificity — yet current evaluations predominantly focus on the former. We introduce a three-part framework for specificity (general, control, robustness) and show that...

AIM's 2nd round of TTK hiring - building up to 30 - is up! 📅 Ddl 12/22/25 🔬 Accessibility & Learning, plus Sustainability & Social Justice 🧑‍🏫 Associate/Full Prof* 🔗 umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UMCP/j... *Assistant-level candidates: apply to departments, mentioning AIM in a cover letter