yash kumar atri

hi! i am a postdoctoral researcher at the university of virginia, working with prof. tom hartvigsen. before joining uva, i completed my phd in computer science & engineering at iiit Delhi, advised by prof. vikram goyal and prof. tanmoy chakraborty. my research aims to build language systems that learn continuously, adapt responsibly, and evolve alongside human knowledge.

i am interested in enabling language models to continuously learn and adapt beyond their initial pretraining. my current research explores model editing, developing methods to update models efficiently with new information and corrections. i build modular systems that apply each change locally, allowing the model to evolve while retaining its existing knowledge. my long-term vision is to create systems that learn like humans: accumulating knowledge over time, refining their understanding, and remaining robust as language, technology, and societal values change.