Divij Handa

PhD student, Arizona State University

Joined

June 2023

Names

Divij Handa (Preferred)

Emails

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

****@asu.edu (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

PhD student

Arizona State University (asu.edu)

2023 – Present

MS student

Arizona State University (asu.edu)

2021 – 2023

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Chitta Baral

2023 – Present

Expertise

LLM Jailbreaking

Present

LLM Reasoning

Present

AI Agents

Present

Publications

GuidedSampling: Steering LLMs Towards Diverse Candidate Solutions at Inference-Time
Divij Handa, Mihir Parmar, Aswin RRV, Md Nayem Uddin, Hamid Palangi, Chitta Baral
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Build-Bench: Benchmarking LLM Agents on Compiling Real-World Open Source Software
Zehua Zhang, Ati Priya Bajaj, Divij Handa, Siyu Liu, Arvind S Raj, Hongkai Chen, Hulin Wang, Yibo Liu, Zion Leonahenahe Basque, Souradip Nath, Will Rosenberg, Vishal Juneja, Nikhil Chapre, Yan Shoshitaishvili, Adam Doupe, Chitta Baral, Ruoyu Wang
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
OptAgent: Optimizing Query Rewriting for E-commerce via Multi-Agent Simulation
Divij Handa, David Blincoe, Orson Adams, Yinlin Fu
- ICLR 2026 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
When "Competency" in Reasoning Opens the Door to Vulnerability: Jailbreaking LLMs via Novel Ciphers
Divij Handa, Zehua Zhang, Amir Saeidi, Shrinidhi Kumbhar, Md Nayem Uddin, Aswin RRV, Chitta Baral
- NeurIPS 2025 - Reliable ML Workshop
- Readers: Everyone
BUILD-BENCH: Benchmarking LLM Agents on Compiling Real-World Open-Source Software
Zehua Zhang, Ati Priya Bajaj, Divij Handa, Siyu Liu, Arvind S Raj, Hongkai Chen, Hulin Wang, Yibo Liu, Zion Leonahenahe Basque, Souradip Nath, Vishal Juneja, Nikhil Chapre, Yan Shoshitaishvili, Adam Doupe, Chitta Baral, Ruoyu Wang
- DL4C @ NeurIPS 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Hypothesis Generation for Materials Discovery and Design Using Goal-Driven and Constraint-Guided LLM Agents
Shrinidhi Kumbhar, Venkatesh Mishra, Kevin Coutinho, Divij Handa, Ashif Iquebal, Chitta Baral
- CoRR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
ActionReasoningBench: Reasoning about Actions with and without Ramification Constraints
Divij Handa, Pavel Dolin, Shrinidhi Kumbhar, Tran Cao Son, Chitta Baral
- ICLR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
ActionReasoningBench: Reasoning about Actions with and without Ramification Constraints
Divij Handa, Pavel Dolin, Shrinidhi Kumbhar, Tran Cao Son, Chitta Baral
- ICLR 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
UnSeenTimeQA: Time-Sensitive Question-Answering Beyond LLMs' Memorization
Md Nayem Uddin, Amir Saeidi, Divij Handa, Agastya Seth, Tran Cao Son, Eduardo Blanco, Steven R. Corman, Chitta Baral
- CoRR 2024
- Readers: Everyone

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