Raghunathan Awarded 2024 Okawa Research Grant

Aditi Raghunathan, an assistant professor in Carnegie Mellon University's Computer Science Department, has received the 2024 Okawa Research Grant for her work in creating trustworthy large language models (LLMs).

Raghunathan is one of six U.S. professors who received this grant from the Okawa Foundation for Information and Telecommunications. The foundation awarded 14 total grants to professors in the U.S., South Korea and China.

Raghunathan said she is thrilled to receive the grant, which will help her continue her critical research into making machine learning more robust.

"Despite their success, LLMs remain brittle and insecure, prone to hallucinations, generating harmful content and being jailbroken, with growing concerns about their use as autonomous agents in high-stakes tasks," she said. "This grant will support my work on making LLMs trustworthy to ensure they deliver benefits without harm."

Visit the Okawa Foundation's website for more information about the research grants.