Hello, I'm Siddharth Yayavaram.

I'm currently pursuing a Master's in Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning at Carnegie Mellon University. I earned my Bachelor's in Computer Science from BITS Pilani, graduating as the Institute Gold Medalist (Rank 1) with a GPA of 9.97/10.

My research spans multimodal AI, LLM agents, evaluation, and culturally aware machine learning systems. For my undergraduate thesis, I collaborated with CMU and worked with Professor Graham Neubig, Simran Khanuja, and Michael Saxon to build a system that augments vision-language models with information from a multilingual, multicultural knowledge base, improving performance on scoring images for cultural relevance. This work was accepted to CEGIS @ ICCV 2025 and EACL 2026 (main conference).

My prior research has explored machine learning applications in mental health (speech data) and post-training language models for idiom classification and depression detection. I'm currently contributing to GameDevBench, a benchmark for evaluating agentic capabilities through game development.

I'm always excited to collaborate on AI and NLP research. Feel free to reach out if you'd like to work together.