conference
2026
Symbolic Grounding Reveals Representational Bottlenecks in Abstract Visual Reasoning
Mohit Vaishnav, et al.
Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL)
Building Kimova AI · AI for cybersecurity compliance
AI researcher,
turned founder.
I'm Dr. Mohit Vaishnav — Co-founder & CEO of Kimova AI, where we're automating cybersecurity compliance with AI. I bring a PhD in cognitive AI and visual reasoning from Brown University & ANITI to building products that turn frontier research into real-world impact.
Top 5
Kaggle global rank
of 3000+ — Half-Earth Challenge
15+
Publications
NeurIPS · ICLR · Neural Computation
10+
Countries
research & work experience
PhD
Brown University / ANITI
Cognitive AI & visual reasoning
What I'm doing now
Two worlds, one mission
I split my time between scaling a company and pushing the science forward.
Current · Present
Co-founder & CEO
Kimova AI
Pioneering AI-driven ISO auditing — transforming how organizations achieve and maintain cybersecurity compliance.
Current · Present
Postdoctoral Researcher
TalTech University, Estonia
Leading multidisciplinary research under the EXAI grant on multimodal reasoning agents.
Selected research
Frontier work in vision & reasoning
Peer-reviewed at NeurIPS, ICLR and Neural Computation — full list on the research page.
journal
2026 1 citations
Beyond the Linear Separability Ceiling: Aligning Representations in Vision-Language Models
Mohit Vaishnav, et al.
Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR)
preprint
2025 4 citations
A Cognitive Paradigm Approach to Probe the Perception–Reasoning Interface in VLMs
Mohit Vaishnav, et al.
arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.13620
Let's build the future of AI together
Whether it's AI solutions for compliance, research collaboration, investment, or speaking — I'd love to connect.