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hey there 🌸
i'm armaan

i spend a lot of time thinking about the space between humans and ai - how meaning is interpreted across that gap, and how small mismatches in understanding can quietly shape behavior. i’m currently pursuing a master’s in computer science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst where i study reinforcement learning and alignment, and try to understand how models learn, adapt, and sometimes misunderstand intent.

alongside research, i co-founded curations.club - a small, intentional corner of the internet where people collect what they love, notice patterns across books, music, and ideas, and connect through shared taste. building it made me think deeply about how design and engineering together can make digital spaces feel slower, warmer, and more human.

outside of this, i make digital art and write essays and blogs. in an earlier chapter, i worked at Goldman Sachs and later as a software engineer at Google.

research 🔬

interests

i’m interested in understanding how llms represent and update beliefs during interaction—especially user modeling, adaptation, and how alignment-relevant behaviors emerge mechanistically.

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measuring and testing dynamic user belief representations in llms

an exploratory mechanistic study showing that llms form evolving internal beliefs about a user’s knowledge state across an interaction - strongly decodable, but not cleanly editable via single-layer activation patching.

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tone-induced misalignment in instruction-tuned language models

an empirical study testing whether tone (while holding semantics constant) can shift model behavior - affecting truthfulness, confidence calibration, and goal persistence under distributional shift.

recent reading

i keep light notes as i read — will link them here soon.

my projects 🧃

👕TeeAndTribesunsetted
2021

a store we built for Indian creators to launch their own merch. born out of hostel room banter and incubated at Nirmaan (IITM's pre-incubation cell).

🌸Curations
2023 – now

a cozy space to showcase your consumption taste. collect what you love and connect with people through taste. from Spotify playlists to book recs — showcase what makes you, you.

visit site →
Curations

books that i love 📚

i’ve made small lists of my favorite reads — the ones i truly recommend 💭

Superwomen reads 🎀💅

The Last Girl

The Last Girl

This book teaches you to be brave because sometimes it is just hard to fathom all the evil in this world. It is your courage that keeps to going.

Educated

Educated

This book teaches you to strive for knowledge in life while still showing great understanding and love for the world you leave behind.

✨ see more from the list →

✨ Beautiful fiction books

The Seven Husbands on Evelyn Hugo

The Seven Husbands on Evelyn Hugo

I ate this book🫣. Sharing one of the strongest lines from this: “When you’re given an opportunity to change your life, be ready to do whatever it takes to make it happen. The world doesn’t give things, you take things.

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

One of the most underrated books i have read. Netflix should make a tv series out of this one. 😛

✨ see more from the list →

📖 Currently Reading

    The Book Thief

    The Book Thief

    Markus Zusak

✨ see more of what i read this year →

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

― Harper Lee

made with using curations.club

making art, slowly 🎨

whenever i find a quiet moment, i try to create some art. i used to paint with acrylics, and now i'm learning my way through digital art

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@thesearearchives

sunflower
stilllife
starry night
flor
sun will rise again

sun will rise again

plant momma

plant momma

starry night

starry night

Prada

Prada

mosiac

mosiac

other things i enjoy 🌷

  • lately, i’ve been spending more time on research, especially in reinforcement learning.
  • i’m building my first app in react native — launching soon 👀 stay tuned!
  • i’m punjabi and i have some banger punjabi music recs — underrated, non-viral gems. not the usual stuff floating around!
  • recently got into jewellery 💍 and started building a little collection i love. here’s what i got and where i wear it.
  • started writing blogs last year as a way to think in public. 💕
  • learning climbing, it’s humbling, but so much fun.
  • i occasionally post “study with me” videos youtube

reach out to me 💌