Adithya Kulkarni

Adithya Kulkarni is a postdoctoral fellow at the Sanghani Center, working with core faculty Dawei Zhou and Lifu Huang, both assistant professors in the Department of Computer Science.

Their work involves combining the power of graph learning and large language models (LLMs) to develop approaches that enable the explainability, interpretability, replicability, and, thus, the general robustness of LLMs.

Kulkarni is addressing hallucination issues faced by LLMs and how to overcome the requirement of labeled data for training large language models. This research applies to many domains, such as e-commerce, biomedicine, social networks, and natural language processing in general.

As part of his postdoctoral position, he will generate research papers and participate in workshops, tutorials, and conferences related to natural language processing, artificial intelligence and data mining and machine learning.

He will also teach introductory computer science courses and mentor graduate students.

Kulkarni earned a master of science degree in computer science and a Ph.D. in computer science in 2024, both from Iowa State University.