I'm a Master's student in the Machine Learning Department at
Carnegie Mellon University. Previously, I was a Computer Science
undergrad at UC Santa Cruz, where I published research with multiple labs (ERIC Lab, Tech4Good Lab, and more).
My current interests revolve around generative and world modeling,
embodied intelligence, AI safety, and controllable AI systems. I
frequently work with other researchers (NVIDIA, Yale University,
University of Michigan, UC Santa Barbara) and am always open to new
ideas; please reach out if you are interested in collaborating!
In addition to research, I've done a lot of engineering work,
including internships at Google and Amazon.
Research
* denotes equal contribution
SafePro: Evaluating the Safety of Professional-Level AI Agents
Kaiwen Zhou, Shreedhar Jangam*,
Ashwin Nagarajan*, Tejas Polu*, Suhas
Oruganti, Chengzhi Liu, Ching-Chen Kuo, Yuting Zheng, Sravana
Jyothi Narayanaraju, Xin Eric Wang
ICLR Workshop on Agents in the Wild: Safety, Security, and
Beyond, 2026
Bringing ‘On-the-Job’ Learning into Education: Lessons
From a Micro-Role Apprenticeship Program and Implications for
Platform Design
Audrey Ostrom, Jiayu Yuki Yin, Jose Manuel Chavez, Pragna
Chennuri, Jialai Li,
Ashwin Nagarajan, Psi Padhya, Yash Raj
Singh, Sonia Salunke, Iris Tai, Chi-Kwan Jasmine Tai, David T Lee
ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
(Poster), 2026
Designing Virtual Reality Games About Grief: Reflections from
Psychology and Healthcare Professionals
Amina Kobenova, Thais Alvarenga, Piper Stickler,
Ashwin Nagarajan, Sri Kurniawan
Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA) Conference,
2026
PhyWorldBench: A Comprehensive Evaluation of Physical Realism in
Text-to-Video Models
Jing Gu, Xian Liu, Yu Zeng,
Ashwin Nagarajan, Fangrui Zhu, Daniel
Hong, Yue Fan, Qianqi Yan, Kaiwen Zhou, Ming-Yu Liu, Xin Eric
Wang
International Conference on Learning Representations
(ICLR), 2026 Oral
The Name-Free Gap: Policy-Aware Stylistic Control in Music
Generation
Ashwin Nagarajan, Hao-Wen Dong
NeurIPS Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Music: Where
Creativity Meets Computation, 2025
CCC: Enhancing Video Generation via Structured MLLM Feedback
Jing Gu, Ashwin Nagarajan, Tejas Polu,
Kaizhi Zheng, Ruijian Zha, Jie Yang, Xin Eric Wang
ICML Workshop on Test-Time Adaptation: Putting Updates to the
Test, 2025
Self-Resource Allocation in Multi-Agent LLM Systems
Alfonso Amayuelas, Saaket Agashe, Jingbo Yang,
Ashwin Nagarajan, Antonis Antoniades, Xin
Eric Wang, William Yang Wang
ICML Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems in the Era of Foundation
Models, 2025
Human-centered World Modeling: Enhancing Multi-Agent AI
Adaptability with Chain-of-Thought and Symbolic Reasoning
Reza Habibi, Zhiyu Lin, Jiahong Li, Tejas Polu,
Ashwin Nagarajan, Magy Seif El-Nasr
CHI Workshop on Human-AI Interaction for Augmented Reasoning, 2025 Oral