Avyukth Nilajagi

Computer Science @ Pitt

Interested in AI safety and neuroscience.

Publications

NeurIPS 2026 · AI4Good Workshop Springer LNCS, forthcoming

Scalable Search Heuristics for Inoculation Prompting

A. R. Nilajagi, X. Liu, N. Maturi, B. K. Baghel

Mentored the EleutherAI SOAR cohort behind this work, in collaboration with Bhiman Kumar Baghel at Pitt. Developed Latent Preference Shift, which ranks inoculation prompts from base-model log-probabilities instead of a fine-tuning run per candidate.
Society for Neuroscience 2025 Poster + nanosymposium talk

Interactions of single-neuron spiking with the spectrolaminar motif of LFP power via spike-field synchronization

A. Abdaltawab, A. Nilajagi, M. Babaei, Y. Xiong, H. Nejat, A. Bastos, D. Mendoza-Halliday

Decomposed the canonical cortical microcircuit to the level of single neurons, using spike–field synchronization to relate each neuron's spiking to the spectrolaminar motif: the layered pattern of LFP power that recurs across mammalian cortex.

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