Vasudha Varadarajan
Postdoctoral Researcher at Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolVasudha Varadarajan is a postdoctoral researcher at Carnegie Mellon University’s Language Technologies Institute who studies how social cognition emerges in large language models and its downstream effects on human cognition, conversational outcomes, and safety in sensitive domains like mental health. With a PhD from Stony Brook and nine years of research and industry experience spanning NLP, recommendation fairness, and applied data science, she blends "neo-GOFAI" statistical techniques with modern NLP to probe social and psychological phenomena. Her background includes internships at Microsoft, AT&T Labs, Inria, and contributions to computational geometry projects via Google Summer of Code, reflecting a strong interdisciplinary and engineering foundation. Known for bridging rigorous experimentation with practical concerns about deployment risks, she actively seeks collaborations at the intersection of language, cognition, and responsible AI.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BE Computer Science + MSc Physics, 8.6/10, BE Computer Science + MSc Physics, 8.6/10 at Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceKendriya Vidyalaya SangathanDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, 3.94/4, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, 3.94/4 at Stony Brook University
English, Tamil, Hindi, Telugu
Github Skills (47)
polygons10
markdown10
geometry10
polygon10
boolean10
gitpod10
github-pages10
jekyll10
point-cloud10
geometry-library9
cgal9
boolean-operations9
ply9
geometry-processing9
tessellation9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
vasevarad/vasevarad.github.io
Sep 2024 - Jan 2025
Contributions:1 review, 3 PRs, 162 pushes in 4 months
vasevarad/stock--tracker
Jul 2019 - Apr 2023
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 9 months
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