Manish Nagireddy

Researcher, Trustworthy Machine Intelligence, IBM Research

Joined

August 2022

Names

Manish Nagireddy (Preferred)

Emails

****@andrew.cmu.edu (Confirmed)

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

****@ibm.com (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Researcher

Trustworthy Machine Intelligence, IBM Research (ibm.com)

2023 – Present

Intern

IBM Research (ibm.com)

2022 – 2022

Undergrad student

Carnegie Mellon University (cmu.edu)

2019 – 2022

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

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Expertise

trustworthy AI

Present

generative models

Present

Publications

Answering the Wrong Question: Reasoning Trace Inversion for Abstention in LLMs
Abinitha Gourabathina, Inkit Padhi, Manish Nagireddy, Subhajit Chaudhury, Prasanna Sattigeri
- ACL '26 [to appear]
- 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- ICLR 2026 Conference Withdrawn Submission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
Building a Foundational Guardrail for General Agentic Systems via Synthetic Data
Yue Huang, Hang Hua, Yujun Zhou, Pengcheng Jing, Manish Nagireddy, Inkit Padhi, Greta Dolcetti, Zhangchen Xu, Subhajit Chaudhury, Ambrish Rawat, Liubov Nedoshivina, Pin-Yu Chen, Prasanna Sattigeri, Xiangliang Zhang
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Granite Guardian
Inkit Padhi, Manish Nagireddy, Giandomenico Cornacchia, Subhajit Chaudhury, Tejaswini Pedapati, Pierre Dognin, Keerthiram Murugesan, Erik Miehling, Martín Santillán Cooper, Kieran Fraser, Giulio Zizzo, Muhammad Zaid Hameed, Mark Purcell, Michael Desmond, Qian Pan, Zahra Ashktorab, Inge Vejsbjerg, Elizabeth M. Daly, Michael Hind, Werner Geyer et al. (3 additional authors not shown)
- OpenReview Archive Direct Upload
- Readers: Everyone
The RealHumanEval: Evaluating Large Language Models’ Abilities to Support Programmers
Hussein Mozannar, Valerie Chen, Mohammed Alsobay, Subhro Das, Sebastian Zhao, Dennis Wei, Manish Nagireddy, Prasanna Sattigeri, Ameet Talwalkar, David Sontag
- Accepted by TMLR
- Readers: Everyone
Programming Refusal with Conditional Activation Steering
Bruce W. Lee, Inkit Padhi, Karthikeyan Natesan Ramamurthy, Erik Miehling, Pierre Dognin, Manish Nagireddy, Amit Dhurandhar
- ICLR 2025 Spotlight
- Readers: Everyone
SocialStigmaQA Spanish and Japanese - Towards Multicultural Adaptation of Social Bias Benchmarks
Clara Higuera Cabañes, Ryo Iwaki, Beñat San Sebastian, Rosario Uceda Sosa, Manish Nagireddy, Hiroshi Kanayama, Mikio Takeuchi, Gakuto Kurata, Karthikeyan Natesan Ramamurthy
- SoLaR Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Value Alignment from Unstructured Text
Inkit Padhi, Karthikeyan Natesan Ramamurthy, Prasanna Sattigeri, Manish Nagireddy, Pierre Dognin, Kush R. Varshney
- Pluralistic-Alignment 2024
- Readers: Everyone
The RealHumanEval: Evaluating Large Language Models' Abilities to Support Programmers
Hussein Mozannar, Valerie Chen, Mohammed Alsobay, Subhro Das, Sebastian Zhao, Dennis Wei, Manish Nagireddy, Prasanna Sattigeri, Ameet Talwalkar, David Sontag
- Submitted to NeurIPS 2024 Track Datasets and Benchmarks
- Readers: Everyone
SocialStigmaQA: A Benchmark to Uncover Stigma Amplification in Generative Language Models
Manish Nagireddy, Lamogha Chiazor, Moninder Singh, Ioana Baldini
- AAAI 2024
- Readers: Everyone

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