Scholar
Nirav Diwan
Google Scholar ID: -ADOnuAAAAAJ
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
Citations & Impact
Citations
118
H-index
5
i10-index
4
Publications
11
Co-authors
0
Publications
Resume
Academic Achievements
- Co-led development of PurpCode—the first reasoning model for cybersafety using Deliberative Alignment—winner of the Amazon Nova AI Challenge 2025 ($250k prize)
- PurpCode paper accepted at NeurIPS 2025
- Summer 2024 internship work at LG AI Research accepted at AAAI Good Data Workshop 2025
- Work on evading phishing detectors using diffusion models accepted at USENIX Security Symposium 2024
- Research on watermarking fine-tuned LLM-generated text accepted at ACL 2021 (Findings)
- RecipeDB large-scale recipe dataset published in Database: The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation (Oxford University Press, IF=5.8)
- Work on identifying anomalous users in YouTube black market accepted at AAAI-ICWSM
- Received Dean’s Thesis Appreciation Award at IIIT Delhi in 2021
- Selected to represent UIUC at the Catalyzing Advocacy in Science and Engineering Workshop in Washington, 2024