Founding Researcher and MTS at Secure AI Futures Lab. Building (and breaking) robots at BluSigma Robotics. Previously, Data Engineer at SteadRise. Graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, with a B.Tech in textile engineering and an M.Tech in computer science, advised by Prof. Srikanta J Bedathur.
Research
I am broadly interested in the study of cause and effects (causality, preference optimization, decision under uncertainty), and the study of abstractions (programming languages, formal methods, and distributed computing protocols).
Publications
- Towards Measuring Secure Agent Deployment In The Indian Institutional Context. Basil Labib, Sai Sasank Yadati. GlobalSouthAI Workshop, NeurIPS 2026.
- Replacing Max-Min with Posterior Weighting: Sharper Causal Intervals Under Graph Uncertainty. Basil Labib. ELLIS 2026 Workshop on Causality and Uncertainty.
- Auto-Enhance: Towards a Meta-Benchmark to Evaluate AI Agents' Ability to Improve Other Agents. Samuel F Brown, Basil Labib, Codruta Lugoj, Sai Sasank Yadati. NeurIPS Workshop on Socially Responsible Language Modelling Research, 2024.
Tech
- Can discrete Ricci flow signal capability transition in Transformers?
- Understanding System One Models Using Interpretability Tools
- The Lament of a Young ML Researcher
- Day 1 of n: Reading (and Implementing) Ilya's 30 ML Papers
- Trial by Fire: Tenure as Head of Technology at Rendezvous ‘25
- Implement a Minimax Agent for Optimal Tic Tac Toe Play
Writing
- There is no such thing as AI Safety anymore
- Imagining a Post-AGI Economy
- Songs of My Life (So Far)
- A System's Approach To Understanding Islam
- Indians Are Really Bad At Picking Opponents
- The society we are engineering and the death of manners
Travel
- Meditations from the Beach: Solo Trip To Vizag
- Bonjour Monsieur: Paris '2026
- A Spiritual Reconnect: Trip to Ajmer and Udaipur
Reading
Currently: The Story of Philosophy by Will Durant, and Skunk Works by Ben Rich. Everything else lives on the bookshelf and sometimes on Goodreads.
Watching
Directors I admire are Satoshi Itoh, Satoshi Kon, and Akira Kurosawa (Japanese); Hitchcock and Kubrick (American). Rohmer and Truffaut (French). All-time favourite: Through the Olive Trees by Abbas Kiarostami (respect).
Making (Art|Poems|Comics|Films)
Short films -- the latest is The Secret Lives of Oranges and Pomegranates (2025). Some old poems are here and here. Picking up cooking now. Check out my comics and animations @basil.icious.
Elsewhere in life
Black-red belt in Taekwondo. Beginner swimmer and runner. Speak English, Hindi, Bengali and Urdu; currently learning Mandarin.
Urdu Poetry
خودی کو کر بلند اتنا
کہ ہر تقدیر سے پہلے
خدا بندے سے خود پوچھے
بتا تیری رضا کیا ہےEndow your will with such power
— Allama Muhammad Iqbal
that at every turn of fate
God Himself asks of His slave —
‘What is it that pleases thee?’
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