Research

Peer-Reviewed ML Research Publications

Published research at ICLR 2026 workshops, MathAI 2026 (oral), and IEEE on multimodal AI reasoning, LLM recommendation systems, and biometric geometry.

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Alok Upadhyay seated at the edge of an alpine lake, looking out toward the mountains
Where the good questions tend to show up.
2026

Riemannian Geometry of Multimodal Biometric Embedding Spaces

Conference of Mathematics of AI (MathAI 2026): Oral
A. Upadhyay
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2026

Are VLM Identity Judgments Logically Consistent? Evaluating Symmetry, CoT, and Transitivity in Person Re-ID

ICLR 2026 Workshop on Logical Reasoning of LLMs
A. Upadhyay
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2026

Do LLM Recommenders Obey Preference Axioms? Testing Logical Rationality in LLM-Based Recommendation

ICLR 2026 Workshop on Logical Reasoning of LLMs
A. Upadhyay
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2012

A Novel Architecture for Secure Communications in Mobile Systems

Int'l Conf. Internet Technology & Secured Transactions
A. Upadhyay, J.K. Sahoo, V. Bajpai
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Additional manuscripts under peer review

Service

Conference Reviewer & Program Committee

Program Committee member and peer reviewer at ICLR, CVPR and ACM ICMR, and technical manuscript reviewer for Manning Publications.

Best Reviewer Award: ICLR 2026 Workshop on Agents in the Wild (AIWILD)

Competitive distinction awarded to a single reviewer across the workshop's entire peer-review process, selected by the Program Chair Committee and presented at the workshop's closing remarks, April 2026.

ICLR 2026 Workshop
LLM Reasoning
ACM ICMR 2026
Program Committee: Int'l Conference on Multimedia Retrieval
CVPR 2026 Workshop
Foundation & Generative Models in Biometrics
Manning Publications
Technical manuscript review: identity & access management