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Research·1 patent·2 papers

Patent and research.

One granted patent and two papers, one of them at the EMNLP 2026 Main Conference. This page lists each one with its coauthors and links.

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Anirudh Vasudevan holds a granted patent for the Contactless Integrated Voting System and co-wrote ConsensusDrift: Semantic Salience Can Override Majority Evidence in LLM Aggregation, a paper at the EMNLP 2026 Main Conference. Before that he published work on detecting life activities with FMCW radar using a deep convolutional neural network (Springer, 2023).

The patent grew out of CIVS, a contactless voting kiosk I built as a personal and academic project. It checks a voter's face against registered ID photos, then records a ballot chosen by holding up fingers and confirmed with a thumbs up. The engineering is in the CIVS write-up.

Patent

Contactless Integrated Voting System

Granted patent

May 2023

  • Filed as A System and a Method for Contactless Voting, Indian application 202341031598, May 2023.
  • Assigned to SRM Institute of Science and Technology.
  • It lets people vote using speech and hand gestures instead of touching a machine.

Patent document ↗How CIVS worksSource on GitHub ↗

Papers

ConsensusDrift: Semantic Salience Can Override Majority Evidence in LLM Aggregation

EMNLP 2026 (Main Conference)

2026

  • With Gokul Srinath Seetha Ram and Rashmi Elavazhagan.

Research experience

Institute for Health Informatics, University of Minnesota

Twin Cities, MN

Graduate Research Assistant

January 2024 to July 2025

  • Data processing, causal analysis, and predictive modeling in Python on K-12 education and health equity in Minnesota, inside a privacy-compliant framework.

InsightEDU, MS Computer Science capstone

University of Minnesota, advised by Erich Kummerfeld

February 2026

  • Plotly dashboards over aggregated school-district data, plus a chatbot whose retrieval runs in the browser with a hand-written TF-IDF engine. Read the write-up.