I am a postdoc with the Machine Learning Group of Cambridge University, supervised by Dr Adrian Weller. I am also a bye-fellow of Churchill College. From 2017-2022, I was a PhD student with the Computer Science department of IIT Bombay advised by two amazing researchers: Prof. Sunita Sarawagi and Prof. Soumen Chakrabarti. My PhD was supported by Google PhD Fellowship. Before PhD, I had spent two wonderful years as a research member staff at Amuse Labs contributing features to a digital archival project called ePADD. I graduated with computer science majors from IIT Mandi in the himalayas, which is where I found my love (for mountains)!

I am passionate about research challenges that arise when deploying Machine Learning systems in the wild. Currently, my research focus in on discovering alternative forms of human-to-machine and machine-to-human communication that engender more trust and control over ML models.

An overview of my research and background can be found in Publications and CV respectively. You can reach me using any of the contact pointers provided in the footer or reach me on my mail id [viharipiratla][at]gmail[dot]com