Preetam Dammu

Hello! I am a fourth-year PhD student at the University of Washington, Seattle. My research focuses on leveraging generative AI for information retrieval tasks and addressing challenges associated with its adoption. Alongside this, I have a long-standing interest in explainability and robustness in machine learning, which continues to shape my work today. I am fortunate to be advised by Prof. Chirag Shah.

News

Jul 14, 2025	New paper – Dynamic-KGQA: Framework for Generating Adaptive QA Datasets accepted at SIGIR 2025!
Jun 16, 2025	Interning with AWS AI this summer to work on dynamic evaluation of web agents.
Nov 7, 2024	New paper on autonomous generative agent for subjective needs accepted at WSDM 2025!
Sep 21, 2024	New preprint on covert harms in LLM conversations accepted at EMNLP 2024 (Main - Oral)!
Sep 20, 2024	New paper on claim-level verification and evidence attribution through KGs accepted at EMNLP 2024 (Findings)!

Selected Publications

ClaimVer: Explainable Claim-Level Verification and Evidence Attribution of Text Through Knowledge Graphs

Preetam Prabhu Srikar Dammu, Himanshu Naidu, Mouly Dewan, and 4 more authors

2024

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@misc{dammu2024claimverexplainableclaimlevelverification,
  title = {ClaimVer: Explainable Claim-Level Verification and Evidence Attribution of Text Through Knowledge Graphs},
  author = {Dammu, Preetam Prabhu Srikar and Naidu, Himanshu and Dewan, Mouly and Kim, YoungMin and Roosta, Tanya and Chadha, Aman and Shah, Chirag},
  booktitle = {Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024},
  year = {2024},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  url = {https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-emnlp.795},
  doi = {10.18653/v1/2024.findings-emnlp.795},
}

’They are uncultured’: Unveiling Covert Harms and Social Threats in LLM Generated Conversations

Preetam Prabhu Srikar Dammu, Hayoung Jung, Anjali Singh, and 2 more authors

2024

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@misc{dammu2024theyunculturedunveilingcovert,
  title = {'They are uncultured': Unveiling Covert Harms and Social Threats in LLM Generated Conversations},
  author = {Dammu, Preetam Prabhu Srikar and Jung, Hayoung and Singh, Anjali and Choudhury, Monojit and Mitra, Tanushree},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing},
  year = {2024},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  url = {https://aclanthology.org/2024.emnlp-main.1134},
  doi = {10.18653/v1/2024.emnlp-main.1134},
}

Detecting Spurious Correlations via Robust Visual Concepts in Real and AI-Generated Image Classification

Preetam Prabhu Srikar Dammu, and Chirag Shah

In 37th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), XAIA Workshop, 2023

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@inproceedings{dammu2023detecting,
  title = {Detecting Spurious Correlations via Robust Visual Concepts in Real and {AI}-Generated Image Classification},
  author = {Dammu, Preetam Prabhu Srikar and Shah, Chirag},
  booktitle = {37th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), XAIA Workshop},
  year = {2023},
  url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=ewagDhIy8Y},
}

Addressing Weak Decision Boundaries in Image Classification by Leveraging Web Search and Generative Models

Preetam Prabhu Srikar Dammu, Yunhe Feng, and Chirag Shah

In International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2023

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@inproceedings{Dammu2023AddressingWD,
  title = {Addressing Weak Decision Boundaries in Image Classification by Leveraging Web Search and Generative Models},
  author = {Dammu, Preetam Prabhu Srikar and Feng, Yunhe and Shah, Chirag},
  booktitle = {International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  year = {2023},
  url = {https://www.ijcai.org/proceedings/2023/659},
}