Ritwik Gupta
[at] berkeley.edu
AI in chaotic environments and governance of dual-use military-civil AI
Assistant Professor, University of Maryland (starting 2026)
Technical Director for Autonomy, Defense Innovation Unit (DIU)
Highlights
Prospective Students: Students interested in working with me should apply to the UMD CS Ph.D. program and mention my name in their research statement. I am looking for students interested in working on physics-integrated computer vision, multi-robot perception, and technology policy. I am also looking for also looking for Public Policy Ph.D. students with engineering backgrounds. For this, please apply to the UMD Public Policy Ph.D. program and mention your interest in working with me as an outside advisor.
- [June 2024] I will be starting as an Assistant Professor in Computer Science and the AI Interdisciplinary Institute at the University of Maryland in Fall 2026.
- [May 2024] Our paper, Enough Coin Flips Can Make LLMs Act Bayesian, was accepted to ACL 2025.
- [Sep. 2024] I launched the AI Frontiers Intiative aimed at centering data and realistic ML research trends in AI governance.
- [May 2024] Our paper, xT, was accepted to ICML 2024.
- [Apr. 2024] I was awarded the Timothy B. Campbell Innovation Award by the EECS Department.
- [Dec. 2023] Our work, ClimSim, was awarded Best Paper at NeurIPS 2023 in the D&B track.
- [Oct. 2023] Our work on Scale-MAE was nominated for Best Paper at ICCV 2023!