Saswat Das

Saswat Das

PhD Student in Computer Science

SEAS, University of Virginia

About Me

I am a PhD student at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Virginia (UVA), where I am fortunate to be advised by Dr. Ferdinando Fioretto as a member of the RAISE Lab. My research interests are broadly situated within the fascinating area of trustworthy/responsible AI; more precisely, these include differential privacy, contextual integrity, algorithmic fairness, adversarial robustness. I am also interested in cryptography and topics related to security and (agentic) LLMs.

Prior to this, I pursued an Integrated M.Sc. (BS+MS) degree at the National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER) with a major in Mathematics and a minor in Computer Science. I also was a student researcher at the School of Computer Sciences at NISER (2021-2023).

Reach out to me anytime for discussing ideas/collaborations, regarding opportunities, and to give talks on my research. I’m open to research internship opportunities as well!

Interests
  • Differential Privacy
  • Privacy-Preserving and Fair Machine Learning
  • Trustworthy AI
  • Cryptography/Security
  • Agentic LLMs
Education
  • PhD (Computer Science), 2023 - Present

    SEAS, University of Virginia

  • Integrated M.Sc. (BS+MS) (Mathematics Major and Computer Science Minor), 2018 - 23

    National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI

Recent News

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Sep 2025: Paper on “Beyond Jailbreaking: Auditing Contextual Privacy in LLM Agents” accepted to the Multi-Turn Interaction (MTI-LLM) Workshop at NeurIPS 2025!

May 2025: New preprint on “Beyond Jailbreaking: Auditing Contextual Privacy in LLM Agents” out on arXiv!

May 2025: Interning this summer and fall at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory to work on data privacy and security!

May 2025: Google Privacy Seminar: Presented our work on “Beyond Jailbreaking: Auditing Contextual Privacy in LLM Agents” with Nando Fioretto

Mar 2025: TOC4Fairness Invited Talk: Presented our work on “Fairness Issues and Mitigations in (Differentially Private) Socio-demographic Data Processes” on Mar 5 with Joon Ko

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
SEAS, University of Virginia
PhD Student
Aug 2023 – Present Charlottesville, VA, USA
 
 
 
 
 
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
PhD Intern
Jul 2025 – Dec 2025 Charlottesville, VA, USA (Remote)
 
 
 
 
 
EECS, Syracuse University
Visiting Research Scholar/Collaborator
Jun 2022 – May 2023 Syracuse, NY, USA
 
 
 
 
 
SM Lab, NISER, HBNI
Student Researcher
Mar 2021 – May 2023 Odisha, IN
 
 
 
 
 
School of Computer Sciences, NISER, HBNI
Winter Intern
School of Computer Sciences, NISER, HBNI
Dec 2019 – Jan 2020 Odisha, IN
 
 
 
 
 
School of Computer Sciences, NISER, HBNI
Summer Intern
School of Computer Sciences, NISER, HBNI
May 2019 – Jul 2019 Odisha, IN

Articles, Book Chapters, and Publications

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(2025). Beyond Jailbreaking: Auditing Contextual Privacy in LLM Agents. MTI-LLM @ NeurIPS-25.

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(2024). Fairness Issues and Mitigations in (Differentially Private) Socio-demographic Data Processes. AAAI-25 (Oral).

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(2024). Low-rank finetuning for LLMs: A fairness perspective. CoLoRAI @ AAAI-25 (🏆 Best Paper).

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(2024). Disparate Impact on Group Accuracy of Linearization for Private Inference. ICML-24.

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(2023). Finding ε and δ of Statistical Disclosure Control Systems. AAAI-24.

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(2023). Advances in Differential Privacy and Differentially Private Machine Learning - A Survey. In Information Technology Security (Springer Nature).

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(2022). Fair Context-Aware Privacy Threat Modelling. In WPTM 2022, USENIX.

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