Krishna Pillutla

Assistant Professor

Dept of DSAI IIT Madras

Krishna Pillutla is an assistant professor in the department Data Science and AI at IIT Madras. His group studies the theory and practice of ML & AI, focusing on privacy-preserving and robust learning, with applications to LLMs and generative AI.

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Publications

InvisibleInk: High-Utility and Low-Cost Text Generation with Differential Privacy

Vishnu Vinod , Krishna Pillutla , Abhradeep Guha Thakurta

Peer Reviewed Paper The Thirty-ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2025) 2025

Deception in Reinforced Autonomous Agents: The Unconventional Rabbit Hat Trick in Legislation

Atharvan Dogra , Krishna Pillutla , Ameet Deshpande , Ananya B Sai , John J Nay , Tanmay Rajpurohit , Ashwin Kalyan , Balaraman Ravindran

Peer Reviewed Paper Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2025), Volume 1: Long Papers, pages 33367-33390 2024

Projects

Deception in Reinforced Autonomous Agents

Atharvan Dogra , Ameet deshpande , John Nay , Tanmay rajpurohit , Ashwin kalyan , Balaraman Ravindran , Krishna Pillutla , Ananya B Sai

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Saakshya: Multi-Agent, RAG-Enhanced Framework for Deepfake Detection and Governance

Aravind Reddy , Gokul S Krishnan , Geetha Raju , Krishna Pillutla , Balaraman Ravindran , Dhruv Tibarewal , IIT Jodhpur

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