Varun Dhanraj

Masters Student in Computer Science

I started my Masters in Computer Science at the lab in September 2023, and received my BASc in Mathematical Physics from the University of Waterloo. I am currently working on improving the reasoning and planning capabilities of AI agents using strategies and concepts from reinforcement learning, large language models, and diffusion models.

Publications

Conference and Workshop Papers

  • Varun Dhanraj, Chris Eliasmith (2025) Improving Rule-based Reasoning in LLMs using Neurosymbolic Representations. In Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). Association for Computational Linguistics. arXiv:2502.01657.  Abstract  arXiv
  • Varun Dhanraj, Chris Eliasmith (2025) Improving Rule-based Reasoning in LLMs using Neurosymbolic Representations. In Sixth International Conference on the Mathematics of Neuroscience and AI.  Abstract  Poster
  • Varun Dhanraj, Chris Eliasmith (2024) Improving Reasoning and Planning Capabilities of Language Models using Reinforcement Learning. In Mediterranean Machine Learning Summer School 2024.  Abstract  Poster