I have started my internship as an AI Researcher at the Institute of Foundational Models, MBZUAI in Silicon Valley (Sunnyvale, CA), working on improving model capabilities on science and mathematics! 
Mallikarjuna Tupakula
AI Researcher · Institute of Foundational Models, MBZUAI
Hi! I am an AI Researcher at the Institute of Foundational Models, MBZUAI in Silicon Valley, working with Mikhail Yurochkin on improving foundation-model capabilities for science and mathematics, and evaluating scientific benchmarks. I work closely with Professor Sanghamitra Dutta on AI for Science to understand model behaviour using interpretability. I am completing my MS in Computer Science at Rochester Institute of Technology with a full graduate merit scholarship.
At RIT, I work with Professor Ashique KhudaBukhsh and collaborate with Professor Sumeet Kumar at the Indian School of Business. Previously, I spent nearly four years as a full-time researcher at ISB, publishing at NeurIPS, INFORMS Journal on Computing, ACL, ASONAM, and INFORMS on Data Science, and receiving the Kathuria Pre-Doctoral Scholarship.
“Karmanye vadhikaraste ma phaleshu kadachana” — Bhagavad Gita
“You have the right to perform your duty (action), but you are not entitled to the results or fruits of your actions”
Updates
I am at San Diego for presenting my work at NeurIPS’25, feel free to send an email to catchup 
I received a complimentary registration for attending NeurIPS’25 
My sole author publication at NeurIPS'25 FM4LS on Drug-Text Alignment. Please read my paper and let's meet at NeurIPS'25
Awards & Honors
Google Cloud Platform Credit Award
Received Google Cloud Platform credit support as part of the TPU Builders program.
CVPR'25 Broadening Participation Participant Award
Selected for the CVPR 2025 Broadening Participation program.
NeurIPS 2024 Reviewer Registration Support
Received registration support from the Machine Learning and the Physical Sciences Workshop for serving as a reviewer.
PyTorch 2024 Conference Travel Support
Received Linux Foundation funding to attend the PyTorch 2024 conference in San Francisco.
Full Merit Scholarship for Graduate Studies
Awarded a full merit scholarship for graduate studies at Rochester Institute of Technology.
Kathuria Pre-Doctoral Scholarship
Awarded by Shri Nihal Chand Kathuria Education Trust for excellence in pre-doctoral research at Indian School of Business.
Full Scholarship for Undergraduate Studies
Awarded for exceptional entrance examination performance and prior academic record.
Facebook AI Scholarship
Awarded the competitive Facebook AI Scholarship.
Research
INFORMS IJOC2025
Quantifying the Academic Quality of Children's Videos Using Machine Comprehension
Preprint2025