
Hi, I'm Mansi Phute
CS PhD at Georgia Tech
My research interests are Responsible AI and ML safety.
I work on developing explanations for ML systems, analyzing them to identify vulnerabilities, and finding solutions to mitigate these issues.
My UNDREAM system system offers a way to bridge differentiable rendering and photorealistic simulation for end-to-end adversarial attacks, thus enabling beter transferability of attacks to the physical world.
My work includes VISOR and VISOR++ which create a universal, transferable steering image that can steer architecturally diverse models without requiring access to their internal model parameters at runtime.
I have collaborated with designers, developers, and scientists at
IBM,
HiddenLayer,
Intel Labs, and
Nanyang Technological University
Featured Publications
Transferrable Visual Input based Steering for Output Redirection in Large Vision Language Models
ECCV 2026,
2026
Bridging Differentiable Rendering and Photorealistic Simulation for End-to-end Adversarial Attacks
Pacific Asia Conference on Knowledge and Data Discovery,
2026
Visual Input based Steering for Output Redirection in Large Vision Language Models
AAAI AIR-FM Workshop,
2026