Bhrij Patel
Hello!
I am Bhrij (“Bridge”) Patel. I am a fourth-year CS PhD student at the UMD - College Park. I am co-advised by Dr. Dinesh Manocha as part of the GAMMA lab and by Dr. Amrit Singh Bedi (UCF). My work focuses on theory and practice for reliable, robust reasoning with suboptimal feedback signals. I am currently interning at AG2 (formerly AutoGen) for LLM-based agents. I have also interned at Qualcomm Research and Emergence AI working on tool-based agents. Before my PhD, I graduated from Duke University (‘22), advised by Dr. Cynthia Rudin in her Interpretable ML Lab.
My current research interests:
- Alignment and Personalization for AI Systems, specifically during Test-Time
- Multi-step Tasks with Tool-based Agents
- LLM-based Evaluators for Prompt Optimization
- Sample Efficient Optimization for Reinforcement Learning with Sparse Rewards
[Nov 2025] Started my internship at AG2 (formerly AutoGen), working on multi-agent systems!
[Oct 2025] Completed my internship at Qualcomm for Summer/Fall 2025, writing a paper on efficient function calling for on-device models!
[May 2025] Completed my internship at Emergence AI, writing a research paper on learning API functionality from demonstrations for tool-based agents!
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science, August 2022 - Present
University of Maryland, College Park
M.S. in Computer Science, August 2022 - May 2024
University of Maryland, College Park
B.S. in Computer Science & Math, Minor in Creative Writing, August 2018 - May 2022
Duke University
Publications
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EMNLP '25
Findings of Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2025. -
IROS '25
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2025. -
ICML '24
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2024. -
ICML '23
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2023.
Preprints In Review
ArXiv
ArXiv
ArXiv
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