Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
New York University Abu Dhabi — May 2025
CBSE Higher Secondary (AISSCE)
Sharjah Indian School — 2021
Junior Research Scientist
Center for Interacting Urban Networks (CITIES) Research Institute, NYU Abu Dhabi
Advised by Prof. Azza Abouzied
February 2026 - Present
Research Assistant (Capstone Research)
Cyber Security and Privacy (CSP) Lab, NYU Abu Dhabi
Advised by Prof. Christina Pöpper
February 2024 - Present
Research Assistant
Data Intelligence and Computation in Engineering (DICE) Lab, NYU Tandon School of Engineering
Advised by Prof. Chinmay Hegde
July 2024 - January 2025
Research Assistant (IoT Environmental Station)
Mubadala Arabian Center for Climate and Environmental Sciences (ACCESS) Lab, NYU Abu Dhabi
Advised by Prof. Francesco Paparella
February 2023 - May 2024
AI Product Researcher
Trevex
August 2025 - Present
Software Engineer Intern
LetsRise Academy, Abu Dhabi
May 2024 - August 2024
Programming: Python, C/C++, JavaScript, Go, Java, MATLAB
Machine Learning: PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face, LoRA Fine-Tuning, Synthetic Dataset Generation
Data Systems: Hadoop, Spark, HiveQL, Presto
Web & Backend: Flask, Node.js, Express.js, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Firebase
Hardware & Robotics: Raspberry Pi, Arduino, ROS, 3D Printing
Languages: English, Hindi, Malayalam, Arabic
Sanjana Nambiar, Christina Pöpper. (2025). "JailFact-Bench: A Comprehensive Analysis of Jailbreak Attacks vs. Hallucinations in LLMs." SiMLA 2025 Workshop, co-located with ACNS 2025. To appear in Springer LNCS.
Sanjana Nambiar, Chinmay Hegde, Niv Cohen. (2024). "Synthetic Fine-Tuning as a Defense Mechanism in Large Language Model PII Attacks." NeurIPS 2024 LLM Privacy Competition.
Benjamin Feuer, Micah Goldblum, Teresa Datta, Sanjana Nambiar, Raz Besaleli, Samuel Dooley, Max Cembalest, John P. Dickerson. (2025). "Style Outweighs Substance: Failure Modes of LLM Judges in Alignment Benchmarking." International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2025.