Rishi Desai
I'm currently building RL environments for agentic coding at Abundant AI. Previously I graduated from Stanford with a BS and MS in computer science and minor in music.
My recent work focuses on building tools for creating RL environments, evaluating dataset quality, and studying agent traces.
Check out SWE-gen, a new tool for scaling SWE-bench–style task generation.
Posts
SWE-gen: scaling SWE-bench task generation
January 18, 2026
SWE-gen turns any GitHub PR into a SWE-bench style RL environment. We used it to create SWE-gen-JS, a dataset of 1000 JavaScript and TypeScript tasks.
CharForge: character consistency with one reference image
June 27, 2025
A guide for achieving character consistency from a single reference image.
Unlocking Character LoRAs with Structured Captions
May 8, 2025
A guide for image captioning and prompt optimization.
Fixing Face Consistency in GPT-4o Image Gen
April 21, 2025
A guide to enhancing faces in AI generated images.
Publications
Privacy-Constrained Policies via Mutual Information Regularized Policy Gradients
Chris Cundy*, Rishi Desai*, and Stefano Ermon
AISTATS 2024
Detecting Human-Object Relationships in Videos
Jingwei Ji, Rishi Desai, Juan Carlos Niebles
ICCV 2021
BioFabric Visualization of Network Alignments
Rishi Desai, William JR Longabaugh, Wayne Hayes
Recent Advances in Biological Network Analysis, Springer, 2021