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Lead AI Scientist & Researcher

I work on applied AI systems: LLMs in finance, responsible deployment, model behaviour, uncertainty, and decision-making under risk.

Currently: NatWest AI Research · Oxford DPhil

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2025 :: Workshop paper :: NeurIPS 2025 Workshop on Generative AI in Finance

Operationalising LLMs for Compliance-Critical Letter Writing in Financial Services

Devesh Batra, Alexandros Anatolakis, John Hartley, Jude King, Greig A Cowan, Raad Khraishi

A production-focused paper on LLM-assisted drafting for compliance-critical financial-services letters.

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2025 :: SSRN preprint :: SSRN

A Review of LLM Agent Applications in Finance and Banking

Devesh Batra, Conor Hamill, John Hartley, Ramin Okhrati, Dale Seddon, Harvey Miller, Raad Khraishi, Greig Cowan

A survey of LLM agent applications in finance and banking, organised around simulation, acting, analysis, and advising.

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2025 :: Conference paper :: Findings of ACL 2025

How Personality Traits Shape LLM Risk-Taking Behaviour

John Hartley, Conor Brian Hamill, Dale Seddon, Devesh Batra, Ramin Okhrati, Raad Khraishi

Studies how LLM personality traits relate to risk propensity using Cumulative Prospect Theory and Big Five framing.

LLMsRiskBehaviourFinance

2025 :: arXiv preprint :: arXiv

Obscured but Not Erased: Evaluating Nationality Bias in LLMs via Name-Based Bias Benchmarks

Giulio Pelosio, Devesh Batra, Noemie Bovey, Robert Hankache, Cristovao Iglesias, Greig Cowan, Raad Khraishi

Evaluates latent nationality bias in LLMs when explicit demographic labels are replaced by culturally indicative names.

LLMsBiasEvaluationResponsible AI

2023 :: arXiv preprint :: arXiv

Conformal Predictions for Longitudinal Data

Devesh Batra, Salvatore Mercuri, Raad Khraishi

Introduces Longitudinal Predictive Conformal Inference for finite-width prediction intervals with longitudinal and cross-sectional coverage goals.

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03/05/2026

Why a personal website

Why keep a personal research homepage in the age of LinkedIn and Scholar.

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What I Work On

LLM systems in finance and banking

Responsible AI, governance, and evaluation

Uncertainty, conformal prediction, and decision systems

Model behaviour, bias, risk, and human-AI interaction

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Research code :: archive

Longitudinal Predictive Conformal Inference

Reference code for conformal prediction over longitudinal data.

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Casual webapps :: idea

Badminton Match List Generator

A small webapp for creating accessible match lists, rotations, or doubles pairings for a badminton club.

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AI / data demos :: idea

Governed LLM Agent Notes

A public notebook-style explainer for thinking about agent usefulness, risk, and deployability in finance.

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I like small, legible systems.

Research should be understandable. Software should be useful. AI systems should be measured where they are actually used. And side projects should be allowed to be weird.