Atula Tejaswi

Atula Tejaswi

I'm a PhD student in Computer Science at UT Austin, exploring what's next for capable, reliable frontier models.

Current
PhD, Computer Science
The University of Texas at Austin · advised by Prof. Sujay Sanghavi
M.S.
Computer Science
The University of Texas at Austin
B.Tech
Computer Science & Engineering
Manipal Institute of Technology
Student Researcher
Google
Mountain View, CA

Research interests

I'm interested in post-training and LLM agents. I'm also interested in developing diffusion language models and improving their capabilities relative to autoregressive models.

llm agents post-training diffusion language models data curation alignment

Papers

* equal contribution
arXiv · 2026

OpenThoughts-Agent: Data Recipes for Agentic Models

Negin Raoof*, Richard Zhuang*, Marianna Nezhurina*, Etash Guha*, Atula Tejaswi, Ryan Marten, Charlie F. Ruan, Tyler Griggs, Alexander Glenn Shaw, Hritik Bansal, E. Kelly Buchanan, Artem Gazizov, Reinhard Heckel, Chinmay Hegde, Sankalp Jajee, Daanish Khazi, Emmanouil Koukoumidis, Xiangyi Li, Hange Liu, Shlok Natarajan, Harsh Raj, Nicholas Roberts, Ethan Shen, Nishad Singhi, Michael Siu, Ashima Suvarna, Hanwen Xing, Patrick Yubeaton, Robert Zhang, Leon Liangyu Chen, Xiaokun Chen, Steven Dillmann, Saadia Gabriel, Xunyi Jiang, Anurag Kashyap, Boxuan Li, Yein Park, Minh Pham, Sujay Sanghavi, Lin Shi, Ke Sun, Yixin Wang, Zhiwei Xu, Erica Zhang, Siyan Zhao, Wanjia Zhao, Jenia Jitsev, Alex Dimakis, Benjamin Feuer†, Ludwig Schmidt† +45 more

Paper Project Page

Research Journey

Along the way, I've had the chance to work with Prof. Mrinmaya Sachan (ETH Zürich), Prof. Lucie Flek (University of Marburg), Prof. Marie-Jean Meurs (MITACS Globalink, University of Quebec in Montreal), Prof. Aditya Gopalan (Indian Institute of Science), and Prof. Eunsol Choi (UT Austin/NYU).