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.