Atharv Chagi

BS/MS @ Texas A&M University (Graduating May 2027)

atharvchagi [AT] tamu.edu

Bio

Hi! Good to meet you, and welcome to my website! I am Atharv Chagi, a BS/MS student at Texas A&M University learning Computer Science + Math.

This summer, I'll be a software engineering intern at Texas Instruments, exploring AI agents for chip design. Previously, I was a software engineering intern at Siemens working on LLM applications for Electrical Products R&D teams.

I'm currently working in the DIVE Lab advised by Dr. Shuiwang Ji (also collaborating with Dr. Dileep Kalathil and Dr. James Caverlee), developing post-training methods for Large Language Models and Diffusion Language Models.

Feel free to reach out to me via email!

Publications

Learnability-Informed Fine-Tuning of Diffusion Language Models
Shubham Parashar ⋅ Atharv Chagi ⋅ Jacob Helwig ⋅ Lakshmi Madhavarapu ⋅ Sushil Vemuri ⋅ James Caverlee ⋅ Dileep Kalathil ⋅ Shuiwang Ji
43rd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2026)
Paper ⋅ Code
LIFT framework diagram
Data-Efficient Autoregressive-to-Diffusion Language Models via On-Policy Distillation
Xingyu Su* ⋅ Jacob Helwig* ⋅ Shubham Parashar* ⋅ Atharv Chagi ⋅ Lakshmi Jotsna ⋅ Degui Zhi ⋅ James Caverlee ⋅ Dileep Kalathil ⋅ Shuiwang Ji
arXiv preprint, 2026
Project ⋅ Paper ⋅ Code ⋅ Models
* Equal contribution
OPDLM framework diagram

Experience

Atharv Chagi
atharvchagi [AT] tamu.edu