Research Interests

AI FairnessMechanistic InterpretabilityCognition & ReasoningResponsible AI

About

Hi, I'm Jayanta — a learner and aspiring researcher currently pursuing my 2nd Year Ph.D. Student in Computing at the University of Utah. My research lies at the intersection of Natural Language Processing, AI Fairness, Interpretability, and Responsible AI.

Previously, I was a Machine Learning Engineer at IQVIA, where I developed LLM fine-tuning pipelines and agentic RAG systems for medical data analytics. I completed my B.Sc. in CSE from BUET.

I am passionate about human centered AI and its application in education. I also like to travel in the vector space inside models, a topic of study people coin as mechanistic interpretability. In my freetime, I love to watch boring movies (boring to a lot of people, not to me), play chess(and lose), and listen to music. I am always open to collaborations and discussions, so feel free to reach out!

Current Projects

Responsible Designing of AI Tools in Education

Responsible codesigning higher education tools with faculties

Responsible AIAIEDHuman-Centered AI

Empathy Mechanism in Therapy LLM

Assess the emergence of empathy and compassion fatigue in AI models used for therapy using mechanistic interpretability

Responsible AIAIEDHuman-Centered AI

Publications

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Recent News

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Paper got excepted at EMNLP'26!!

Excited to share that my first project of PhD life got accepted as a main conference paper at EMNLP 2026! Check out the paper from my research page. It is on benchmarking defeasible reasoning (cool stuff!) in LLMs.

Started my Ph.D. at University of Utah!!

I am excited to start my Ph.D. journey at University of Utah. Looking forward to working with amazing professors and researchers!

Got Married!!

Tied the knot with the love of my life. Feeling blessed to have her in my life. Looking forward to a wonderful married life ahead!

Co-Reviewer for COLING'25

I am glad to be a co-reviewer for COLING'25.

Two papers in peer review at COLING'25

Was a bit of a stretch, but managed to get two papers in peer review at COLING'25.