Abinitha Gourabathina

PhD student, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Joined

April 2025

Names

Abinitha Gourabathina (Preferred)

Emails

****@mit.edu (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

PhD student

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (mit.edu)

2024 – Present

Undergrad student

Operations Research and Financial Engineering, Princeton University (princeton.edu)

2019 – 2023

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Marzyeh Ghassemi

2024 – Present

PhD Advisor

2024 – Present

Expertise

Model robustness

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AI safety

2024 – Present

Publications

TOGA: Trigger Optimization for Clean Data Ordering Backdoor Attack
Qixuan Jin, Walter Gerych, Abinitha Gourabathina, Vinith Menon Suriyakumar, Marzyeh Ghassemi
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Chain-of-Thought Degrades Abstention in Large Language Models, Unless Inverted
Abinitha Gourabathina, Inkit Padhi, Manish Nagireddy, Subhajit Chaudhury, Prasanna Sattigeri
- ICLR 2026 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
The MedPerturb Dataset: What Non-Content Perturbations Reveal About Human and Clinical LLM Decision Making
Abinitha Gourabathina, Yuexing Hao, Walter Gerych, Marzyeh Ghassemi
- CoRR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
The Medium is the Message: How Non-Clinical Information Shapes Clinical Decisions in LLMs
Abinitha Gourabathina, Walter Gerych, Eileen Pan, Marzyeh Ghassemi
- FAccT 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Privacy-Preserving Publishing of Individual-Level Pandemic Data Based on a Game Theoretic Model
Abinitha Gourabathina, Zhiyu Wan, J. Thomas Brown, Chao Yan, Bradley A. Malin
- BIBM 2022
- Readers: Everyone

Co-Authors