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Kavita Kumari

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AI security researcher at Technical University of Darmstadt building defenses and detectors for deepfakes and model misalignment.

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At Technical University of Darmstadt - System Security Lab, I design machine-learning models for security-critical and multimodal data, and defenses against backdoors, data leakage, and adversarial behavior. I also build evaluation pipelines for LLM safety and robustness.

I designed VoiceRadar, a system for detecting AI-generated and manipulated speech. Its paper received the Distinguished Paper Award at NDSS 2025, and the system is being commercialized with an industry partner.

For Light2Lie, I developed a physics-inspired vision pipeline that uses reflectance, illumination, and signal inconsistencies to distinguish AI-generated images from real ones. I evaluated its robustness under distribution shifts and adversarial perturbations.

In my current AI Security Research Fellowship, I’m testing whether a reasoning model’s hidden context can be recovered from its output logits. I also built a LoRA fine-tuning pipeline for studying self-narrative language drift and emergent misalignment.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Current

AI Security Research Fellow

Heron AI Security Research Fellowship

Sep 2026 - Present (1 month)

Testing whether a reasoning model's hidden context (system prompt or chain of thought) can be recovered from its output logits, a channel that refusal training and output filtering do not cover.

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Current

Applied Postdoctoral Researcher

Technical University of Darmstadt

Dec 2022 - Present (3 years 10 months)

Designed and implemented physics-informed and energy-based ML models for security-critical and multimodal data analysis. Designed defenses for privacy and security threats in distributed learning setups and LLM evaluation pipelines for model safety and robustness.

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Teaching / Research Assistant (PhD Student)

University of Texas at San Antonio

Aug 2016 - Aug 2022 (6 years)

Developed machine learning and probabilistic modeling solutions for privacy, security, and uncertainty analysis in real-world systems. Designed game-theoretic and stochastic models to analyze adversarial behavior and repeated interactions in data-driven systems.

Education

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Aligarh Muslim University

Grade: 8.9 / 10.0

Pursued studies at Aligarh Muslim University, achieving a GPA of 8.9 out of 10.0.

Tech stack

Software and tools used professionally

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