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Tejas Polu

Undergraduate Student
University of California, Santa Cruz
tpolu [at] ucsc [dot] edu


About Me

Hi πŸ‘‹πŸ½ I’m Tejas, a senior undergraduate advised by Prof. Xin (Eric) Wang and Prof. David T. Lee in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at UC Santa Cruz.

Research Interests

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Publications

  1. ICML
    Jing Gu, Ashwin Nagarajan, Tejas Polu, Kaizhi Zheng, Ruijian Zha, Jie Yang, Xin Eric Wang
    ICML 2025: Building Physically Plausible World Models, ICML 2025: Test-Time Adaptation - Putting Updates to the Test

  2. CHI
    Reza Habibi, Zhiyu Lin, Jiahong Li, Tejas Polu, Ashwin Nagarajan, Magy Seif El-Nasr
    CHI 2025: Human-AI Interaction for Augmented Reasoning

  3. IUI
    Annota: Crowdsourced Predictions for Crowd Convergence
    Samintha Chandrasiri*, Neo Sud*, Tejas Polu, Emil Wilson, Brian Nguyen, David T. Lee
    Submitted to IUI 2026 (under review)

  4. IEEE VR
    Smells Like Fire: Evaluating the Impact of Olfactory Cues in VR Wildfire Evacuation Training
    Alison Crosby, MJ Johns, Eunsol Sol Choi, Tejas Polu, Katherine Isbister, Sri Kurniawan
    Submitted to IEEE VR 2026 (under review)

  5. CHI
    Overcoming Constraints: A Model of Augmented Collaboration
    Michael Kintscher, Tejas Polu, Chris Bryan
    Submitted to CHI 2026 (under review)

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Teaching