My work spans LLMs for code, agentic AI, hardware design automation, security, and interpretability.

TODAES 2025
Can EDA Tool Feedback Improve Verilog Generation by LLMs?
Jason Blocklove, Shailja Thakur, Benjamin Tan, Hammond Pearce, Siddharth Garg, Ramesh Karri
arXiv
TODAES 2024
VeriGen: A Large Language Model for Verilog Code Generation Best Paper Award
Shailja Thakur, Baleegh Ahmad, Hammond Pearce, Benjamin Tan, Brendan Dolan-Gavitt, Ramesh Karri, Siddharth Garg
project / HuggingFace / arXiv / award
ACM TCPS 2022
CANOA: CAN Origin Authentication Through Power Side-Channel Monitoring
Shailja Thakur, Carlos Moreno, Sebastian Fischmeister
project / arXiv
IEEE TIFS 2023
On Hardware Security Bug Code Fixes By Querying Large Language Models
Baleegh Ahmad, Shailja Thakur, Benjamin Tan, Ramesh Karri, Hammond Pearce
arXiv
IEEE TIFS 2023
LLM-assisted Generation of Hardware Assertions
Rahul Kande, Hammond Pearce, Benjamin Tan, Brendan Dolan-Gavitt, Shailja Thakur, Ramesh Karri, Jeyavijayan Rajendran
arXiv
DAC 2024
AutoChip: Automating HDL Generation Using LLM Feedback
Shailja Thakur, Jason Blocklove, Hammond Pearce, Benjamin Tan, Siddharth Garg, Ramesh Karri
arXiv
ICCAD 2024
Make Every Move Count: LLM-based High-Quality RTL Code Generation Using MCTS
Matthew DeLorenzo, Animesh Basak Chowdhury, Vasudev Gohil, Shailja Thakur, Siddharth Garg, Ramesh Karri, Jeyavijayan Rajendran
arXiv
NeurIPS 2023
Are Emily and Greg Still More Employable than Lakisha and Jamal? Investigating Algorithmic Hiring Bias in the Era of ChatGPT
Akshaj Kumar Veldanda, Fabian Grob, Shailja Thakur, Hammond Pearce, Benjamin Tan, Ramesh Karri, Siddharth Garg
arXiv
ICCAD 2023
Towards the ImageNets of ML4EDA
Animesh Chowdhury, Shailja Thakur, Hammond Pearce, Ramesh Karri, Siddharth Garg
arXiv
DATE 2023
Benchmarking Large Language Models for Automated Verilog RTL Code Generation Nominated for Best Paper
Shailja Thakur, Baleegh Ahmad, Zhenxing Fan, Hammond Pearce, Benjamin Tan, Ramesh Karri, Brendan Dolan-Gavitt, Siddharth Garg
project / HuggingFace / arXiv
DATE 2023
Security and Interpretability in Automotive Systems
Shailja Thakur, Sebastian Fischmeister
arXiv
ICPR 2020
Saliency-map based model explanation
Shailja Thakur, Sebastian Fischmeister
project / paper
ICPR 2020
Generalizable Saliency map-based explanation
Shailja Thakur, Sebastian Fischmeister
project / arXiv
BuildSys 2014
Wattshare: Detailed energy apportionment in shared living spaces within commercial buildings
Shailja Thakur, Manaswi Saha, Amarjeet Singh, Yuvraj Agarwal
paper
e-Energy 2014
EnergyLens: Combining Smartphones with Electricity Meter for Accurate Activity Detection and User Annotation
Manaswi Saha, Shailja Thakur, Amarjeet Singh, Yuvraj Agarwal
paper