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Research

I research safety, privacy and alignment in multi-agent LLM systems: benchmark and evaluation design, adversarial probing for privacy leakage, reward modeling, and red-teaming of agentic systems.

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Privacy & safety in multi-agent systems

COLM 2026HAIPS workshop · oral

Benchmarking privacy leakage in multi-agent systems

Soumya Sharma, Ayana Hussain, Héber Hwang Arcolezi, Ulrich Aïvodji, Spandana Gella, Adriana Romero Soriano, Golnoosh Farnadi

tl;dr

A benchmark for what actually drives privacy leakage when LLM agents talk to each other. Across Qwen3, Llama 3.1 and Gemma models, more capable and reasoning models leak more, leakage compounds over turns, and prompt-based mitigations only go so far. Also presented at WiML.

Alignment & evaluation

ICML 2026Human CoCreativity workshop

IDEAFix: Evaluation Framework for Creative Defixation Prompting in LLMs

Florian Carichon, Soumya Sharma, Meaghan J. Girard, Romain Rampa, Golnoosh Farnadi

tl;dr

An evaluation framework for creativity in LLMs. It surfaces a hive-mind behaviour: different models converge on strikingly similar ideas in creative tasks. Under review at NeurIPS 2026.

ICLR 2025MoFA workshop

Robust Reward Modeling via Causal Rubrics

Pragya Srivastava, …, Soumya Sharma, …, Karthikeyan Shanmugam, Doina Precup

tl;dr

Uses causal structure over rubric dimensions to train reward models that are robust to spurious correlations. My dimension-wise rater methodology from Google DeepMind fed into this work.

Earlier: NLP at IIT Kharagpur

ACL 2023Findings

Financial Numeric Extreme Labelling: A Dataset and Benchmarking

Soumya Sharma, Subhendu Khatuya, Manjunath Hegde, Afreen Shaikh, Koustuv Dasgupta, Pawan Goyal, Niloy Ganguly

tl;dr

A dataset and benchmark for tagging numbers in financial filings with XBRL labels, drawn from thousands of possible tags. Built with Goldman Sachs.

Also contributed to

Teaching

McGill · Fall 2026Computational Linguistics (TA)
McGill · Winter 2026Natural Language Processing (TA)
IIT Kharagpur · 2020–22AI Ethics, NLP, Algorithms, and Programming & Data Structures (TA)
IIT KharagpurLed a mentor program for 8 B.Tech, M.Tech and internship students

Reviewing

ACLJanuary 2026, May 2026, ACL 2024
EMNLP / NAACLEMNLP 2023, NAACL 2024

Awards

CIFARAI Safety School — selected participant
McGill / MilaProfessor Cho Diversity Scholarship
Qualcomm, 2021Innovation Fellowship finalist, for “Question Answering in E-Manuals”