Bio

Bhavya Ghai is an Applied Scientist at Amazon. Previously, he was a PhD Candidate, advised by Prof. Klaus Mueller, at the Computer Science department, Stony Brook University. His research, at the intersection of Machine Learning (ML), Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Data Visualization, focuses on human-centered AI approach to audit and mitigate algorithmic bias at different stages of the ML pipeline. This includes building visual interactive systems, conducting empirical studies, and developing ML models to tackle social biases based on gender, race, etc. from tabular datasets, word embeddings and classification models. His work has been featured at top-tier venues like IEEE VIS, ACM CIKM, CHI, CSCW, DIS and ASSETS. He is the recipient of multiple awards including Bloomberg Immersion fellowship, Data Science for Social Good fellowship by Georgia Tech, Chairman Fellowship Award by Stony Brook University, Junior Researcher Award by the Institute of Advanced Computational Sciences, etc. Previously, he worked as an intern at prestigious institutions like Twitter, IBM Research, Bell Labs, Georgia Tech and IIT Delhi. He earned his bachelor’s and master’s degree in Information Technology from Indian Institute of Information Technology, Gwalior in 2016.

Research Interests:

• Algorithmic Fairness
• Human Centered AI
• Data Visualization
• Explainable AI
• Human Computer Interaction

Recent Updates

• Aug'22 My first ever patent titled Optimizing a Machine Learning System is now online!
• Aug'22 Our paper on cascaded debiasing interventions got accepted to ACM CIKM 2022!
• July'22 Really glad that our paper on Fairness in AI got accepted to IEEE VIS 2022!
• May'22 Excited to start my summer internship with Twitter's META team!
• April'22 Our work on social biases in creative storytelling got accepted to ACM DIS 2022
• June'21 Our work on building smart writing tool for People who Stutter got accepted to ACM ASSETS 2021
• Feb'21 Our paper on Intersectional Social biases in Word Embeddings accepted to LBW, ACM SIGCHI 2021
• Aug'20 Our work on Explainable Active Learning is accepted @ACM Conference on Computer-supported Cooperative Work, CSCW 2020
• July'20 Paper accepted @ Workshop on Data Science with Human in the Loop, ACM SIGKDD Conference 2020
• Feb'20 Paper accepted @ Fair & Responsible AI Workshop, ACM SIGCHI Conference 2020, Hawaii
• Feb'20 Presented a poster on speech recognition @AAAI Conference 2020, New York
• Oct'19 Presented my PhD research @ Doctoral Colloquium, IEEE VIS Conference, Vancouver
• Oct'19 Presented upcoming research titled "Measuring social biases in human annotators using counterfactual queries in Crowdsourcing" @BHCC 2019 [Abstract | Slides]
• Aug'19 Awarded with IACS Junior Researcher Award Again! by IACS, Stony Brook University [media]
• Summer'19 Research Intern @ IBM T.J. Watson Research center, Yorktown Heights, NY
• Mar'19 Won 3rd Prize @SBU 3 Minute Thesis Competition!
  
• Feb'19 Won Best Research Talk Award! @GRD 2019
• Dec'18 My research on "Tackling Algorithmic Bias through Human-centered AI" selected for Doctoral Consortium @FAT* Conference 2019
• Aug'18 Awarded with IACS Junior Researcher Award! by IACS, Stony Brook University [media]
• Summer'18 Research Intern at Nokia Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ
• Feb'18 Awarded Full Silver Scholarship for ODSC Boston
• Oct'17 Presented my poster titled 'Visualization of Multivariate Data with Network Constraints using Multi-Objective Optimization.' at IEEE Vis 2017
• Sept'17 Presented our paper titled 'Coupling Data Science with Participatory Planning for Equity in Urban Renewal Programs: An Analysis of Atlanta's Anti-Displacement Tax Fund' at Data Science for Social Good Conference, Chicago
• Aug 26,2017 Awarded Travel Grant award for Data Science for Social Good Conference, Chicago
• July 28,2017 Awarded with Bloomberg Immersion Fellowship!
• Summer'17As DSSG Fellow, Worked with Prof. Ellen Zegura at Georgia Tech, Atlanta
• Jan'17 Teaching Assistant for CSE CSE 337 Scripting languages for Spring'17
• Sept'16 Teaching Assistant for CSE 303 Theory of Computation & CSE 214 Computer Science II for Fall'16
• Aug'16 Awarded Chairman's Fellowship Award by CS Dept., Stony Brook University!
• Aug'16 Joined PhD program at CS department, Stony Brook University
• Jun 6,2016 Started working as Software Engineer at InfoEdge India
• May'16 Graduated with Master's in Information Technology from IIIT Gwalior