Vedant Nanda
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I am a PhD student in the Computer Science Department at the University of Maryland, College Park and the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS), where I am part of the Maryland-Max Planck joint program. I am fortunate to have the guidance of Krishna P. Gummadi (MPI-SWS) and John P. Dickerson (University of Maryland) as my advisors, and I also collaborate closely with Adrian Weller at the University of Cambridge. My research focuses on building a better understanding of Trustworthy Deep Learning through an empirical lens. I've contributed to research in fairness (ICML2019 AAAI2020 AAAI2023), robustness (ICML2022 & AAAI2023), and my work was one of the first to establish a connection between the two fields (FAccT2021). Lately, in the era of large models, I have been thinking about efficient learning (NeurIPS2023) and am offering a seminar on Systems for LLMs.
During my PhD, I had the pleasure of interning twice at Amazon where I first worked on counterfactual explanations with AWS Clarify and then on fairness aspects of generative AI with AWS Bedrock.
I obtained my undergrad from IIIT Delhi (2015 - 2019) majoring in Computer Science and Engineering, where I was associated to Precog. During my undergrad I worked on topics related to Social Computing, Computational Social Science and ICT4D.
I am fortunate to have worked with some amazing mentors (in alphabetical order): Soheil Feizi (UMD), Tom Goldstein (UMD), Hoda Heidari (ETH Zürich), Ponnurangam Kumaraguru (IIIT Delhi), Bradley C. Love (UCL), Rijurekha Sen (IIT Delhi), Pushpendra Singh (IIIT Delhi), Mariya Toneva (MPI-SWS), and Muhammad Bilal Zafar (Amazon). I spent the wonderful summer of 2018 interning at MPI-SWS where I was advised by Krishna P. Gummadi.
For more, check out my CV.
vnanda [at] mpi-sws [dot] org vedant [at] cs [dot] umd [dot] edu