Education :

• Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, India, 2023
• M.S., Mathematics and Scientific Computing, IIT Kanpur, India, 2018
• B.Tech., Mathematics and Scientific Computing, IIT Kanpur, India, 2017

Experience :

• Postdoc Researcher, Kyoto University, Japan (2024~till)
• Visiting Assistant Professor, IIT Dharwad, India (2023~2024)

Brief Bio :

Dr. Jivnesh Sandhan is a postdoctoral researcher at the Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University. Prior to this, he served as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the IIT Dharwad. He earned his Ph.D. from the Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Kanpur in 2023, following a dual degree (B.Tech–M.Tech) in Mathematics and Scientific Computing from the same institution in 2018. He is a recipient of the prestigious Prime Minister's Research Fellowship (PMRF). His current research focus is on understanding and modeling the behavioral consistency of Large Language Models (LLMs) through the lens of Computational Psychometrics. His broader research interests include LLM Jailbreaking and Interpretability, Small Language Models, Animal Language Modeling and Sanskrit Computational Linguistics. He is particularly interested in how LLMs can be evaluated, aligned, and trusted in real-world, context-sensitive settings.

News:

• March 16th, 2025: Our paper got accepted in WSC25.
• Feburary 15th, 2025: I will be serving as a reviewer for ARR25 (February cycle).
• January 1st, 2025: I will be serving as programme committee member for WSC25.
• December 2nd, 2024: I joined as a postdoc at Kyoto University.
• September 20th, 2024: Our paper got accepted in EMNLP24 main track.
• October 31th, 2023: I joined as a visiting assistant professor at IIT Dharwad.
• August 16th, 2023: I defended my Ph.D. thesis.
• October 8th, 2023: Our paper, DepNECTI got accepted in EMNLP'23 (Findings).
• May 8th, 2023: Our paper, SanskritShala got accepted in ACL'23 (System Demonstrations).