Publications

8 papers · 4 accepted · 4 first-author. denotes equal contribution. See also: Public Writing.

2026

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

2026

AI-Mediated Negotiation: Design Reflections and Lessons

Veda Duddu, Jash Rajesh Parekh, Andy Mao, Hanyi Min, Ziang Xiao, Vedant Das Swain, and Koustuv Saha

CSCW 2026 Companion Publications · Preprint

2026

When AI Supports Emotionally Demanding Service Work: Experimental Evidence from Customer Service Interactions

Lei Wang, Hanyi Min, Veda Duddu, Koustuv Saha, Vedant Das Swain

AI and the Future of Work 2026 · Wharton Human-AI Research

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

2026

When AI Says "I have been in similar situations": Synthetic Lived Experience in Peer-Like Caregiver Support

Drishti Goel, Agam Goyal, Veda Duddu, Olivia Pal, Violeta J. Rodriguez, Daniel S. Brown, Ravi Karkar, Dong Whi Yoo, Koustuv Saha

HCOMP 2026 · Preprint

2026

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

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

2025

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


Public Writing

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


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