Previously, I graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Pittsburgh in 2024. While earning my degree, I worked part-time as a researcher and engineer at Signature Diagnostics with Professor Paul Cohen. After graduating, I was fortunate to work with Professor Adriana Kovashka and Professor Ryan Shi.
You might find me in either Pittsburgh, PA or San Diego, CA depending on the time of the year. If you're interested in a quick coffee chat or collaborating together, feel free to reach out!
Publications
CauSciBench: Can LLMs Automate Causal Inference in Real-World Scientific Research?
Sawal Acharya, Terry Jingchen Zhang, Andrew Kim, Rahul Babu Shrestha, Xianlin Sun, Pepijn Cobben, Maximilian Mordig, , Anahita Haghighat, Furkan Danisman, Yuen Chen, Clijo Jose, Andrei Ioan Muresanu, Justin Cui, Jiarui Liu, Yahang Qi, Punya Syon Pandey, Yinya Huang, Bernhard Schölkopf, Zhijing Jin
ICML'26 | International Conference on Machine Learning
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Causal AI Scientist: Towards End-to-End Causal Inference with Large Language Models
Sawal Acharya, Rahul Babu Shrestha, , Vishal Verma, Devansh Bhardwaj, Samuel Simko, Punya Syon Pandey, Anahita Haghighat, Yongjin Yang, Dominik Janzing, Mrinmaya Sachan, Bernhard Schölkopf, Zhijing Jin
ICML'26 Workshop | Workshop on AI for Math, CS & ML
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A Multimodal Recaptioning Framework to Account for Perceptual Diversity Across Languages in Vision-Language Modeling
Kyle Buettner, , Adriana Kovashka
IJCNLP-AACL'25 | International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing & Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
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Towards Automated Scoping of AI for Social Good Projects
, Rayid Ghani, Ryan Shi
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University of Pittsburgh
University of California - San Diego
Vector Institute
EuroSafeAI