Portrait of Shantam Raj

Shantam Raj

Curious · Driven · Poet

I write code when the sun’s high,
and poetry when the moon’s nigh.

about

My work is interdisciplinary - NLP and LLMs at the core, with a slow, deliberate turn toward policy. I’m drawn to AI in education and to econometric methods that surface effects at scale.

I am looking for ambitious collaborations for social good.

now

Almost there: research on human preferences, stories and LLM alignment with Prof. Elliott Ash, ETH Zurich.

Soon: Studying the cross-transfer of skills in LLMs with Prof. Mrinmaya Sachan and Dr. Mubashara Akhtar.

experience & affiliations

selected publications

Climate-ModernBERT: Revisiting Corpus Composition for Domain-Adaptive Continued Pretraining EMNLP 2026 · under review coming soon
Automated Evidence Extraction and Scoring for Corporate Climate Policy Engagement: A Multilingual RAG Approach EMNLP 2025

talks

selected work (GitHub has the latest)