Abhay Puri

Staff Research Scientist / Engineer · Building Safe & Secure AI Agents · ServiceNow AI Research

I am a Staff Research Scientist / Engineer at ServiceNow AI Research, working on the safety and security of LLMs and AI agents red-teaming, backdoor attacks, adversarial fine-tuning, prompt injection, and secure adaptation for enterprise systems. I have also worked on multimodal learning, document understanding, and scalable vector graphics (SVG) generation.

I completed my M.Sc. in Computer Science (specialization in ML) at Mila / Université de Montréal. My work has appeared at NeurIPS, ICLR, CVPR, COLM, and TMLR.

I’m always happy to chat about AI security, agent robustness, or research in general — feel free to reach out!

Abhay Puri

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Selected Publications

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No, of Course I Can! Deeper Fine-Tuning Attacks That Bypass Token-Level Safety Mechanisms

Joshua Kazdan, Abhay Puri, Rylan Schaeffer, Lisa Yu, Chris Cundy, Jason Stanley, et al.

ICLR 2026

DoomArena: A Framework for Testing AI Agents Against Evolving Security Threats

Abhay Puri*, Leo Boisvert*, Mihir Bansal*, Chandra Kiran Reddy Evuru*, Gabriel Huang*, Avinandan Bose*, et al.

COLM 2025

StarVector: Generating Scalable Vector Graphics Code from Images and Text

Juan A. Rodriguez, Abhay Puri, Shubham Agarwal, Issam H. Laradji, Pau Rodriguez, Sai Rajeswar, David Vazquez, Christopher Pal, Marco Pedersoli

CVPR 2025

BigDocs: An Open Dataset for Training Multimodal Models on Document and Code Tasks

Abhay Puri*, Juan A. Rodriguez*, Xiangru Jian*, S. S. Panigrahi*, Tianyu Zhang*, Aarash Feizi*, et al.

ICLR 2025

LitLLMs, LLMs for Literature Review: Are We There Yet?

Abhay Puri*, Shubham Agarwal*, Gaurav Sahu*, Issam H. Laradji, K. D. Dvijotham, Jason Stanley, Laurent Charlin, Christopher Pal

TMLR 2025

Experience & Education

ServiceNow AI Research
ServiceNow AI Research Senior → Staff Research Scientist / Engineer 2023 – present
Jumio
Jumio ML Engineer 2022 – 2023
Mila
Mila – Quebec AI Institute M.Sc. Computer Science (ML) 2021 – 2023
Université de Montréal
Université de Montréal M.Sc. Computer Science (ML) 2021 – 2023
ST Microelectronics
ST Microelectronics Python Development Engineer 2019 – 2020

Mentoring

Current Interns

Rishika Bhagwatkar

M.Sc. Student · Mila / McGill

Manveer Singh Tamber

PhD Student · University of Waterloo

Alumni

Kevin Kasa

Research Intern · ServiceNow AI Research

ML Research, Law Zero

Joshua Kazdan

Research Intern · ServiceNow AI Research

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