Aayush Oza

I am a first-year PhD student in Computer Science at Tulane University, where I work in the Laboratory for Software Design with Hridesh Rajan. My research sits at the intersection of software engineering and artificial intelligence.

I study how to build agentic AI systems that people can trust with consequential decisions. In particular, I ask whether a specification that holds for an individual component, such as a fairness requirement on a trained classifier, still holds once a large language model orchestrates that component as a tool. My current work applies ideas from Design by Contract to state and check these specifications in agentic systems. You can read more on my research page.

Before joining Tulane, I earned a B.S. in Computer Science from Arizona State University in May 2026. During my undergraduate studies I completed software engineering internships at One World Quest, Amaranth Tech, and the ASU VR Lab, where I built LLM workflow tooling, cloud-backed learning platforms, and virtual reality training applications.

I am always happy to talk about research, collaborations, or graduate school. Email is the best way to reach me.

research interests

• Agentic AI and AI decision making
• Algorithmic fairness in machine learning systems
• Design by Contract for AI systems
• Software engineering for machine learning

education

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, Tulane University, 2026 to present
• B.S. in Computer Science, Arizona State University, 2026

work experience

• Software Engineer Intern, One World Quest, May to Aug 2025
• Software Engineer Intern, Amaranth Tech, Jan to May 2025
• Software Engineer Intern, VR Lab, Arizona State University, Sep to Dec 2024
• Software Engineer Intern, Camus Pharma, May to Aug 2024