Rahul Gupta

Rahul Gupta
Senior Applied Science Manager @ Amazon Nova
PhD from USC, B.Tech. from IIT Kharagpur

I am a senior leader focused on Responsible AI for frontier foundation models. At Amazon, my work spans safety, evaluation, red-teaming, fairness, privacy, and mitigation capabilities for Amazon Nova and related AGI initiatives.

My work combines executive-scale technical leadership with a deep research record. During my tenure at Amazon, I have reported directly to C-suite and VP-level leaders, led teams as large as 50+, driven third-party safety evaluations and LMArena performance, and organized university AI safety challenges. Even while operating at that level, I take pride in staying close to hands-on science, including first-author work on CBRN uplift evaluation for frontier language models and fairness in large-scale NLU systems.

I publish at venues including NeurIPS, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP, FAccT, and ICASSP, and help convene the field through TrustNLP, Trustworthy Speech Processing, and the SemEval Unlearning Challenge.

Full publication details are available on my Google Scholar profile, and I share recent research updates on X and LinkedIn.

Recent Highlights

Jul 2-7, 2026
ACL & TrustNLP
Co-organizing TrustNLP. Presenting LLM Unlearning, SWAN, ARES, AutoSUIT Bench.
Jul 6-11, 2026
ICML
Two papers: Misaligned Agents and Prompt Injection (spotlight).
Aug 2026
MAA MathFest & IJCAI-ECAI
Panelist for Career Paths in Business, Industry, and Government at MAA MathFest; upcoming talk at the Workshop on Foundation Models for Social Good, co-located with IJCAI-ECAI 2026.
Oct 9, 2026
COLM - Invited Talk
Invited speaker at AdvML-Frontiers × CoTMA workshop on multi-agent AI security.

View full news & accolades archive →