Vinay Kumar

Publications

2026
arXiv
Vinay Kumar, Satyendra Rajput, Mausam, N. M. Anoop Krishnan
A benchmark of 169 expert-curated molecular dynamics simulation tasks that exposes fundamental limitations of current AI agents in scientific computing — the best agent solves only 21% of easy-level tasks.
2026
arXiv
Harshit Bisht, Vinay Kumar, Kevin Maik Jablonka, Mausam, N. M. Anoop Krishnan
A position paper identifying four fundamental limitations of current agentic AI scientists — problem selection bias, LLM training gaps in laboratory practice, loss of output diversity, and benchmarks that lack physical feedback loops — that prevent true autonomous scientific discovery.
2024
ECAI 2024
Pranavkumar Mallela, Vinay Kumar, Shashi Shekhar Jha, Shweta Jain
A framework that uses calibrated AI model probabilities to identify cost-effective human-AI collaboration strategies for classification tasks, evaluated on CIFAR-10H and ImageNet-16H.

Talks

July, 2026
Building AI Agents from Scratch
AI/ML for Materials, Department of Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Science
July, 2023
Database Selection Tool: Empowering Decision-Making for Optimal Performance
India-Dalhousie Student Research Symposium, Dalhousie University, Canada