Tadepalli researcher to present AI paper at prestigious ICML 2026 conference
Tadepalli-born technology entrepreneur Venkata Sree Karthikeya Gattupalli will present his AI research at the AI4Law Workshop during ICML 2026 in Seoul. His specialised legal AI model aims to review lawyer invoices at over 90% lower cost than larger AI systems.
Hyderabad: A young researcher with roots in Tadepalli has been selected to present his work at one of the world’s most prestigious artificial intelligence conferences.
Venkata Sree Karthikeya Gattupalli, son of Tadepalli s Ramaprasad and Vaishnavi and now a technology entrepreneur in Reno, Nevada, USA, has had his research paper formally accepted at the AI4Law Workshop at ICML 2026, the International Conference on Machine Learning, to be held in Seoul.
Karthikeya is the founder of legalbill.ai, an American legal technology startup. The US legal services industry, worth hundreds of billions of dollars annually, relies heavily on complex billing and invoice-review processes.
His accepted paper, “Domain-Adapted Hybrid Mamba-Attention SLM for Legal Billing Review,” introduces a new type of small AI model built specifically for the legal industry. The model can automatically check lawyer invoices for overbilling and errors, and the research shows it can perform the task at more than 90 percent lower cost than large models from companies like OpenAI.
Karthikeya said the work was motivated by the need to make advanced AI affordable for law firms and businesses. “I am proud to represent both my work in the US and my hometown of Tadepalli on this global stage,” he said.
The paper was chosen after international peer review and will be presented before leading AI scientists and legal tech experts on July 10. Karthikeya completed his early education in Andhra Pradesh before moving to the United States for higher studies and entrepreneurship.
