Hey! I am Danish Pruthi, I am an assistant professor at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. At IISc, I guide an NLP group focused on inclusive evaluation, model control (e.g., editing, de-biasing, or personalizing trained models), and also on inspecting and validating data sources (in response to biased or harmful behavior). I hope to also work on important NLP applications, e.g., content moderation, assisted writing, etc. I am also interested in understanding the broader societal implications of language technologies.

I received my PhD from CMU, where I was co-advised by Zachary C. Lipton and Graham Neubig. My doctoral research focused on addressing issues concerning the interpretability of deep learning models. I completed my bachelors degree in computer science from BITS Pilani, Pilani in 2015. I've also spent time doing research at Google AI, Microsoft Research, Facebook AI Research, and Amazon AI. I am a recipient of the Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Early Career Fellowship, Siebel Scholarship and the CMU Presidential Fellowship.

Until recently, my legal name was only Danish—an “edge case” for many deployed NLP systems, leading to airport quagmires and, in equal parts, funny anecdotes.

Details about the upcoming NLP course are here.