Raghav Kaushik Ravi


I am a Research Intern at Microsoft Research India, working on Multimodal Reasoning, and a Computer Science undergraduate at Vellore Institute of Technology. My research interests lie in Reinforcement Learning, Reasoning, Multimodal Learning, and Mechanistic Interpretability.

I enjoy thinking about how intelligence emerges from the systems we build. My idea of a good time? Reading a paper and thinking.. what if I built this from scratch? I love translating ideas into architectures, running experiments, and figuring out the why behind the what. Always up for a good research paper or a bad AI pun!

For any inquiries, feel free to reach out to me via mail!

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Publications

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Alignment Quality Index (AQI): Beyond Refusals: AQI as an Intrinsic Alignment Diagnostic via Latent Geometry, Cluster Divergence, and Layerwise Pooled Representations (Oral)
Abhilekh Borah, Chhavi Sharma, Danush Khanna, Utkarsh Bhatt, Gurpreet Singh, Hasnat Abdullah, Raghav Kaushik Ravi, Vinija Jain, Jyoti Patel, Shubham Singh, Vasu Sharma, Arpita Vats, Rahul Raja, Aman Chadha, Amitava Das
Proc. of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2025
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@InProceedings{Borah2025AQI, 
	author = {Abhilekh Borah and Chhavi Sharma and Danush Khanna and Utkarsh Bhatt and Gurpreet Singh and Hasnat Abdullah and Raghav Kaushik Ravi and Vinija Jain and Jyoti Patel and Shubham Singh and Vasu Sharma and Arpita Vats and Rahul Raja and Aman Chadha and Amitava Das}, 
	title = {Alignment Quality Index (AQI): Beyond Refusals: AQI as an Intrinsic Alignment Diagnostic via Latent Geometry, Cluster Divergence, and Layerwise Pooled Representations}, 
	booktitle = {Proc. of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)}, 
	year = {2025}, 
}
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CLINIC: Evaluating Multilingual Trustworthiness in Language Models for Healthcare
Akash Ghosh*, Srivarshinee Sridhar*, Raghav Kaushik Ravi*, Muhsin Muhsin, Sriparna Saha, Chirag Agarwal
Under Review at ICML, 2026
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@InProceedings{Ghosh2025CLINIC, 
	author = {Akash Ghosh* and Srivarshinee Sridhar* and Raghav Kaushik Ravi* and Muhsin Muhsin and Sriparna Saha and Chirag Agarwal}, 
	title = {CLINIC: Evaluating Multilingual Trustworthiness in Language Models for Healthcare}, 
	booktitle = {Under Review at ICML}, 
	year = {2026}, 
}
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Mapping Clinical Doubt: Locating Linguistic Uncertainty in LLMs
Srivarshinee Sridhar*, Raghav Kaushik Ravi*, Kripabandhu Ghosh
AAAI'26 SECURE-AI4H Workshop, 2025
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@InProceedings{Sridhar2025MappingClinical, 
	author = {Srivarshinee Sridhar* and Raghav Kaushik Ravi* and Kripabandhu Ghosh}, 
	title = {Mapping Clinical Doubt: Locating Linguistic Uncertainty in LLMs}, 
	booktitle = {AAAI'26 SECURE-AI4H Workshop}, 
	year = {2025}, 
}
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Scratcher: An automated machine-vision tool for dissecting the neural basis of itch
Devangshu Nandi*, Raghav Kaushik Ravi*, Jagat Prajapati, Arnab Barik
Neuroscience, 2026
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@InProceedings{NANDI2026Scratcher, 
	author = {Devangshu Nandi* and Raghav Kaushik Ravi* and Jagat Prajapati and Arnab Barik}, 
	title = {Scratcher: An automated machine-vision tool for dissecting the neural basis of itch}, 
	booktitle = {Neuroscience}, 
	year = {2026}, 
}
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PruneBERT: Context-Aware Sentence Classification through Statistical Relevance Pruning
Raghav Kaushik Ravi*, L Jeganathan, M Meena, Jayaram Balabaskaran, Ummity Rao
SSRN Preprint, 2025
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@InProceedings{Ravi2025PruneBERT, 
	author = {Raghav Kaushik Ravi* and L Jeganathan and M Meena and Jayaram Balabaskaran and Ummity Rao}, 
	title = {PruneBERT: Context-Aware Sentence Classification through Statistical Relevance Pruning}, 
	booktitle = {SSRN Preprint}, 
	year = {2025}, 
}

Education

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Vellore Institute of Technology
B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering • 2022–Present
CGPA: 9.49/10

Relevant Coursework: Probability & Statistics, Discrete Mathematics and Graph Theory, Complex Numbers and Linear Algebra, Calculus, Differential Equations and Transforms, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Digital Image Processing

Work Experience

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Microsoft Research India
Feb 2026 – Present
Research Intern

Working with Dr. Vineeth N Balasubramanian. Working closely with the PowerPoint AgentMode (Frontier) Team as well.
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University of Virginia
Nov 2024 – Dec 2025
Undergraduate Student Researcher

Worked with Dr. Chirag Agarwal. Evaluated the trustworthiness of language models in healthcare through a multilingual benchmark spanning 15 languages, 18 tasks, and 5 core dimensions: truthfulness, fairness, safety, robustness, and privacy. [CLINIC]
AI-NLP-ML Research Lab, IIT Patna Logo
AI-NLP-ML Research Lab, IIT Patna
Oct 2024 – Dec 2025
Undergraduate Student Researcher & Summer Research Intern (ACM IKDD Uplink Program 2025)

Guide: Dr. Sriparna Saha. Worked on CLINIC. Also served as Summer Research Intern at IIT Patna as part of the ACM IKDD Uplink Program 2025 (May 2025 – Sep 2025), one of the 16 interns selected from over 350 institutions across India. Worked with VLMs for aligning verses and visuals in Poetic Storytelling. Work under review at ACL ARR.
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Artificial Intelligence Institute of South Carolina
Feb 2025 – Aug 2025
Research Intern

Worked with Dr. Amitava Das. Worked on Alignment Quality Index (AQI), a contrastive, layer-attentive metric leveraging CKA-driven introspection to detect alignment-relevant representations beyond over-smoothed final embeddings.
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Samsung R&D Institute India
Jul 2024 – Jan 2025
R&D PRISM Intern

Worked on retrieval systems. Received the PRISM Excellence Award for the work done during the internship.
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Indian Institute of Science
May 2024 – Jul 2024
Summer Research Intern

Worked on Scratcher, paper accepted to Neuroscience.

Volunteering

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CVPR
Reviewer
Reviewer for the AICC 2026 Workshop at CVPR'26

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