I am a PhD student in computer science at Purdue University, West Lafayette, advised by Z. Berkay Celik and Dongyan Xu. I am a member of the PurSec Lab. Previously, I earned a master’s degree in computer science from Purdue and an integrated master of technology degree in computer science from the International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore.

Publications

Conference Publications

A Self-Explainable Deep Architecture for Security Applications
Ananth Shreekumar, JyunJhu Syu, Muslum Ozgur Ozmen, Dongyan Xu, and Z. Berkay Celik
Conference on Game Theory and AI for Security. 2026.

Investigating the Impact of Dark Patterns on LLM-Based Web Agents
Devin Ersoy*, Brandon Lee*, Ananth Shreekumar, Arjun Arunasalam, Muhammad Ibrahim, Antonio Bianchi, and Z. Berkay Celik
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy. 2026.

Incorporating Autonomous Bargaining Capabilities into E-Commerce Systems
Ananth Shreekumar*, Biswesh Mohapatra*, and Shrisha Rao
ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents. 2020.

Journal Articles

Improving Sepsis Prediction in Intensive Care with SepsisAI: A Clinical Decision Support System with a Focus on Minimizing False Alarms
Ankit Gupta, Ruchi Chauhan, Saravanan G., and Ananth Shreekumar
PLOS Digital Health. 2024.

Workshop Publications

Formalizing the Safety, Security, and Functional Properties of Agentic AI Systems
Edoardo Allegrini, Ananth Shreekumar, and Z. Berkay Celik
Agents in the Wild: Safety, Security, and Beyond Workshop, International Conference on Learning Representations. 2026.

Towards Artifact Rejection in Microscopic Urinalysis
Tarun Dutt, G.N. Srinivasa Prasanna, Tathagato Rai Dastidar, and Ananth Shreekumar
Medical Imaging Meets NeurIPS Workshop, Neural Information Processing Systems. 2019.

Preprints

The Yes-Man Syndrome: Benchmarking Abstention in Embodied Robotic Agents
Doguhan Yeke*, Elif Su Temirel*, Ananth Shreekumar*, Brandon Lee, Dongyan Xu, and Z. Berkay Celik
arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.20544. 2026.

Stable GFlowNets with TV Monitoring and Probabilistic Guarantees
Zengxiang Lei, Ananth Shreekumar, Jonathan Rosenthal, Ruoyu Song, Alvaro A. Cardenas, Daniel J. Fremont, Dongyan Xu, Satish Ukkusuri, and Z. Berkay Celik
arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.01729. 2026.

Adaptive Blockwise Search: Inference-Time Alignment for Large Language Models
Mohammad Atif Quamar*, Mohammad Areeb*, Nishant Sharma*, Ananth Shreekumar, Jonathan Rosenthal, Muslum Ozgur Ozmen, Mikhail Kuznetsov, and Z. Berkay Celik
arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.23334. 2025.

* Equal contribution.

Service

External Reviewer

SIGKDD (2026, 2027), NDSS (2025, 2026), IEEE S&P (2025, 2026), CCS (2025), NeurIPS (2025), AAAI (2026), ICLR (2026)

Teaching

Graduate Teaching Assistant
CS361 Great Issues in Computer Science Spring 2025
CS529 Security Analytics Fall 2024
CS240 Programming in C Fall 2023
CS352 Compilers: Principles and Practice Spring 2023
MA165 Analytic Geometry and Calculus I Fall 2022
Guest Lecturer
CS197 Freshman Honors Seminar Spring 2026
CS529 Security Analytics Fall 2025, Fall 2024
CS361 Great Issues in Computer Science Spring 2025