Valmik Nahata
Undergraduate Researcher at Harvard Medical School & MGH, member of student research group MIT AI Alignment, with previous experience at Dartmouth Health, and others.
B.S. in Data Science from University of California, San Diego (2024-2028).
My daily work involves solving problems in AI alignment and robustness, and creating resilient systems for AI in Science.
Professional Experience
Research Affiliations
MIT AI Alignment
Member • 2026 - Present
Harvard Medical School & MGH
Undergraduate Researcher • 2025 - Present
Researching Large Language Models for Clinical Use and focusing on chain-of-thought robustness.
Dartmouth Health & Dartmouth Cancer Center
Research Intern • 2024 - 2025 • 1 Year
Developed Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Pathology Reports.
Academic
University of California, San Diego
Undergraduate Student • 2024 - Present
Data Science at Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute (Ranked #8 on U.S. News). Vice President of Research at the AI Student Collective. Member of ACM, IEEE, UBIC, SDxUCSD.
Projects
Labry
2025 - Present
Democratizing Research.
GeoCheater
2026
WorldGuessr Cheats.
CarbonTime
2025
3D Carbon Simulation.
Signly
2025
American Sign Language Conversationalist.
DuckAI
2025
Industry Language Model Benchmarking. Georgia Tech.
Blume
2025
Departed Relatives Conversationalist.
Kaboo
2024
Point of Sale QR Automation.
Research
CoT Robustness in LLMs
Upcoming · 2025
Chain-of-Thought Robustness in Large Language Models for Clinical Applications.
A Statistical Analysis of Crab Pulsar Giant Pulse Rates
2024
Research conducted at Department of Physics and Astronomy, West Virginia University.
Cover Edge-Based Triangle Counting
2024
Research conducted at Department of Data Science, New Jersey Institute of Technology.

RAG for Pathology Reports
2024
Manuscript & Poster. Research conducted at Dartmouth Health & Dartmouth Cancer Center.
Accolades
1st Place | NSF HDR & UC San Diego SMASH Hackathon
2026
Coastal Flooding Prediction Models.
1st Place | Apart Research Sprint
2025
The Early Economic Impacts of Transformative AI: A Focus on Temporal Coherence.
3rd Place | Milwaukee Bucks & Modine Hackathon
2025
Fan Engagement & Churn Propensity Models Presentation.
