Abhinav Madahar · अभिनव ਮਦਾਹਰ
Email: abhinav@abhinavmadahar.com | Phone: +1 (480) 399-4228 | Website: abhinavmadahar.com
Education
Rutgers University – New Brunswick
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Mathematics (Double Major)
September 2017 – May 2021
Publications
Madahar, A. (2025, October 6). Natural language edge labelling: Decoupling intent from execution in structured LM reasoning. arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04817
Madahar, A. (2025, October 1). Lateral tree-of-thoughts surpasses ToT by incorporating logically consistent, low-utility candidates. arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01500
Public writing
Madahar, A. (2025, October 8). Toward a general cure for cancer: Why we might need an AGI researcher. Abhinav Madahar (Substack). https://abhinavmadahar.com/p/toward-a-general-cure-for-cancer
Madahar, A. (2025, July 3). If AI is a GPT, are we missing a complement? Examining current AI discourse from a history-informed approach. Abhinav Madahar (Substack). https://abhinavmadahar.com/p/if-ai-is-a-gpt-are-we-missing-a-complement
Madahar, A. (2025, May 25). Constraining malicious AGI: Exploring the capacities of states and non-state actors to develop and use artificial general intelligence for harm, and the legal barriers that may limit them. Abhinav Madahar (Substack). https://abhinavmadahar.com/p/constraining-malicious-agi
Madahar, A. (2025, April 22). How Poland and its peers can advance their economies using artificial general intelligence: How economies on the low end of high-income can use AGI to reach the frontier. Abhinav Madahar (Substack). https://abhinavmadahar.com/p/poland-and-agi
Research Experience
Industry
Johnson & Johnson — Data Science Co-op
Titusville, New Jersey | April 2020 – September 2020
Mentor: Walter Cedeño, PhD
Oracle Corporation — Data Science Intern
Santa Clara, California | May 2019 – August 2019
Mentor: Dorian Puleri, PhD
Johnson & Johnson — Medical Devices Data Science Intern
Somerville, New Jersey | May 2018 – August 2018
Mentors: Jeff Headd, PhD; Sparkle Russell-Puleri, PhD
Academia
Rutgers University – Department of Computer Science
Research Assistant | May 2020 – August 2020
Principal Investigator: Prof. James Abello Monedero
Research Assistant | September 2018 – May 2019
Principal Investigator: Prof. Sungjin Ahn
Research Assistant | September 2017 – August 2018
Principal Investigator: Prof. Gerard de Melo
Professional Experience
Academia.edu — Software Engineer
San Francisco, California | July 2021 – March 2022
Invited Talks
“Pedagogical Conversational Agents.” AIDeathon (organized by AI Consensus under Minerva University), August 11, 2023.
Service and Outreach
AI Classroom Challenge — Judge for student proposals on educational use-cases of AI | November 2023
IEEE Rutgers Student Branch — Co-organizer of weekly undergraduate machine-learning research paper colloquium | September 2017 – May 2018