About Me

Dr. Bharadwaj is a Senior Researcher at the Navy's Center of Excellence in High Assurance Systems. He is the Principal Investigator (PI) on an NRL Base Program whose goal is to develop tools and methods to assure safe and secure code generation by Foundation Models such as ChatGPT. His position is that researchers need to study the science behind automatic code generated by these models, and recommends the use of symbolic-AI based tools to uncover defects in the AI-generated code. This will enable us as a community to foster another research innovation: the use of Foundation Models themselves for code rewriting, which will automate defect elimination, thereby tremendously scaling the process of defect-free software creation. The proposed approach therefore offers the intriguing possibility of moving towards the holy grail of automated software development!

Dr. Bharadwaj also serves as PI on an Office of Naval Research (ONR) Discovery and Invention (D&I) project to conduct research on providing secure, resilient, and Low Probability of Intercept (LPI) communications and edge-computing services on Low-Size, Weight, Power and Cost (SWaP-C) attritable platforms. He is also PI on a project funded by the Navy Modeling & Simulation Office (NMSO) for creating a rapidly reconfigurable, dependable and reproducible, physics-accurate modeling and simulation framework for the assessment of POM alternatives and effects on faster-than-real-time testbeds. He is also Co-PI on an ONR D&I project on cognitive architectures for tasking and coordination of Tactical Electromagnetic Warfare Systems. Additionally, Dr. Bharadwaj serves as adviser to organizations such as DARPA, NSF, and PEO-IWS, on research challenges and directions, particularly in the areas of assured tactical systems and design principles for tactical electromagnetic warfare systems.