I'm currently a MATS 10.0 Fellow, working with UK AISI, a research assistant at CISPA and a final-year undergraduate at BITS Goa.
I look into breaking powerful ML models and how to effectively red-team and reverse-engineer them. My work explores the intersection of ML and security - from understanding how LLMs reason and fail, to building more transparent and resilient AI systems.

I am actively looking for Research Engineer / Fellow positions in teams involving AI Security & Safety.
📧 Please email me if you'd like to chat!
>publications & preprints
GASP: Efficient Black-Box Generation of Adversarial Suffixes for Jailbreaking LLMs
Advik Raj Basani, Xiao Zhang
Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2025
Diversity Boosts AI-Generated Text Detection
Advik Raj Basani, Pin-Yu Chen
Transactions of Machine Learning Research (TMLR) 2026
G-GQSA: Exploiting Feature-Based Vulnerabilities and Enhancing Adversarial Resilience in Android Malware Detection
Advik Raj Basani, Hemant Rathore
IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC) 2025
When Less is More: Achieving Faster Convergence in Distributed Edge Machine Learning
Advik Raj Basani, Siddharth Chaitra Vivek, Advaith Krishna, Arnab K. Paul
IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (HiPC) 2024
>blogs

Brittle model organisms obstructs deception elicitation work
Advik Raj Basani, Daniel Tan, Chloe Li
Finetuning-based auditing methods meant to measure deceptive behavior in AI model organisms inadvertently destroy that behavior while eliciting false confessions, undermining the validity of these evaluation approaches.
>photos
just a few pictures that I thought looked cool

