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About me

Hello there! My name is Ayan. I am a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems and Saarland University, Germany, jointly advised by Prof. Krishna Gummadi and Prof. Isabel Valera.

Prior to joining as a Ph.D. student, I completed my M.Sc. in Computer Science at Saarland University. Before this, I completed my Bachelors in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Heritage Institute of Technology, India, and worked for two years as a System Engineer at Infosys, India.

I am broadly interested in research topics that encompass the aspects of fairness, robustness and understanding of machine learning systems in consequential decision-making and high-stakes scenarios. In particular, I am exploring the application of deep generative models in these contexts. I am also very enthusiastic about understanding and explaining deep learning models and their perceptions (with respect to human-centric as well as machine-centric views).

You can find more information on my personal page here.

Publications

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/fat/RateikeMMGV22,

title = {Don't Throw it Away! The Utility of Unlabeled Data in Fair Decision  Making},

author = {Miriam Rateike and Ayan Majumdar and Olga Mineeva and Krishna P. Gummadi and Isabel Valera},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3531146.3533199},

doi = {10.1145/3531146.3533199},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-01-01},

urldate = {2022-01-01},

booktitle = {FAccT '22: 2022 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and 

 Transparency, Seoul, Republic of Korea, June 21 - 24, 2022},

pages = {1421–1433},

publisher = {ACM},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@article{DBLP:journals/corr/abs-2111-14726,

title = {Exploring Alignment of Representations with Human Perception},

author = {Vedant Nanda and Ayan Majumdar and Camila Kolling and John P. Dickerson and Krishna P. Gummadi and Bradley C. Love and Adrian Weller},

url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.14726},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-01-01},

urldate = {2021-01-01},

journal = {CoRR},

volume = {abs/2111.14726},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}