Publications

Papers, preprints, and workshop contributions. ^✱ denotes equal contribution. See also: Public Writing.

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2026

Inform, Coach, Relate, Listen: Auditing LLM Caregiving Support Roles
Drishti Goel, Agam Goyal, Veda Duddu, Olivia Pal, Jeongah Lee, Qiuyue Joy Zhong, Violeta J. Rodriguez, Daniel S. Brown, Dong Whi Yoo, Ravi Karkar, Koustuv Saha
Under review · Preprint

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When AI Supports Emotionally Demanding Service Work: Experimental Evidence from Customer Service Interactions
Lei Wang, Hanyi Min, Veda Duddu, Koustuv Saha, and Vedant Das Swain
AI and the Future of Work 2026 - Wharton Human-AI Research

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Not My Truce: Personality Differences in AI-Mediated Workplace Negotiation
Veda Duddu, Jash Rajesh Parekh, Andy Mao, Hanyi Min, Ziang Xiao, Vedant Das Swain, Koustuv Saha
Under review · Preprint

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Do We Know What They Know We Know? Calibrating Student Trust in AI and Human Responses Through Mutual Theory of Mind
Olivia Pal^✱, Veda Duddu^✱, Agam Goyal, Drishti Goel, Koustuv Saha
CHI 2026 Extended Abstracts · ACM

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2025

Does AI Coaching Prepare Us for Workplace Negotiations?
Veda Duddu, Jash Rajesh Parekh, Andy Mao, Hanyi Min, Ziang Xiao, Vedant Das Swain, Koustuv Saha
Under review · Preprint

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The Social Gaze of LLMs: A Literature Review of Multimodal Approaches to Human Behavior Understanding
Zihan Liu, Parisa Rabbani, Veda Duddu, Kyle Fan, Madison Lee, Yun Huang
Under review · Preprint

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Public Writing

Essays, blog posts, and other writing outside the academic publication pipeline.

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From Diamond Mining to Open-World Survival: Alignment and Misalignment in RL Agents
Daniel Zhang, Melvin Huang, Hassan Dawy, Veda Duddu, Kevin Zhu, Sean O’Brien, Vasu Sharma, Sunishchal Dev LessWrong · 2025 · Blog post