Sudharshan Balaji சுதர்ஷன் பாலாஜி

pronounced SOO-dhahr-shun buh-LAH-jee

@bsudharshan2001

Sudharshan Balaji

Ph.D. researcher at University of South Florida, working in the SPRAI Lab with Dr. Ning Wang. My current work focuses on AI safety and alignment.

I work on large language models, unlearning, and agentic systems: how they retain information, follow intent, fail under pressure, and can be made more reliable.

Before the Ph.D., I finished my Master's at USF and worked across security, federated learning, and applied NLP. Outside of research, I watch football (the European kind), catch F1 races, and keep a few side projects alive.

Recent
May 2026 Will be attending ACL 2026 from July 4-7 as a presenter
Aug 2025 Started PhD continuing under Dr. Ning Wang
May 2025 Graduated with Master's in CS from USF
Apr 2025 Thesis on LLMs for Network Intrusion Detection published to ProQuest
Feb 2025 Defended thesis successfully
Sep 2024 Started TA'ing "Security & Privacy in ML"
Mar 2024 Joined SPRAI Lab with Dr. Ning Wang