Venkatesh Mishra

I'm a second-year Computer Science PhD student at Arizona State University, where I'm advised by Dr. Chitta Baral. My current research interests lie in investigating the reasoning capabilities of Language Agents.

I completed my Master's in Computer Science from Arizona State University in 2024. Previously, I worked as a Software Consultant at Oracle.

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News

  • October, 2025 - 1 paper accepted at MTI-LLM @ NeurIPS 2025.
  • September, 2025 - 1 paper accepted at EMNLP 2025.
  • April, 2025 - 1 paper accepted at TrustNLP@NAACL 2025.
  • March, 2025 - Received travel grants from SCAI and ASU GSG.
  • January, 2025 - 2 papers accepted at NAACL 2025.
  • August, 2024 - Started my PhD
Publications
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How Can Input Reformulation Improve Tool Usage Accuracy in a Complex Dynamic Environment? A Study on τ-bench
Venkatesh Mishra, Amir Saeidi, Satyam Raj, Mutsumi Nakamura, Jayanth Srinivasa, Gaowen Liu, Ali Payani, Chitta Baral
EMNLP 2025 Findings, NeurIPS 2025 Workshop MTI-LLM

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Investigating the Shortcomings of LLMs in Step-by-Step Legal Reasoning
Venkatesh Mishra, Bimsara Pathiraja, Mihir Parmar, Sat Chidananda, Jayanth Srinivasa, Gaowen Liu, Ali Payani, Chitta Baral
NAACL 2025 Findings

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Hypothesis Generation for Materials Discovery and Design Using Goal-Driven and Constraint-Guided LLM Agents
Shrinidhi Kumbhar, Venkatesh Mishra, Kevin Coutinho, Divij Handa, Ashif Iquebal, Chitta Baral
NAACL 2025 Findings

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Investigating and Addressing Hallucinations of LLMs in Tasks Involving Negation
Neeraj Varshney, Satyam Raj, Venkatesh Mishra, Agneet Chatterjee, Ritika Sarkar, Amir Saeidi, Chitta Baral
NAACL TrustNLP 2025 Workshop

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