Prof. Ponnurangam Kumaraguru

Abstract
In a world increasingly shaped by AI technologies, including influential models like GPT-4, LLaMA, Stable Diffusion, and DALL.E, common applications of AI in natural language understanding, image generation, and more are prominent. There is an increased use of AI models in various applications, from enhancing customer service interactions to enabling creative image generation and autonomous vehicles. One can now use specialized GPTs for a variety of use cases through a AppStore-like AI marketplace, straight out-of-the-box. However, with great power comes great responsibility, and it’s imperative to acknowledge the technical, ethical, responsible, and fairness issues that accompany these powerful systems. Zooming out to the bigger picture, the talk will address the criticality of identifying ethical, responsible, and safe requirements for AI systems. Will cover some super exciting ongoing research projects at Precog Lab https://precog.iiit.ac.in/ — methods to improve interpretability [ICML 2024], consistency [LREC-COLING 2024], Continual learning [NeurIPS 2024], detecting AI generated Hindi text [EMNLP 2024] and the removal of harmful labels and knowledge from these models [ICML 2024]. 

Bio
Prof. Ponnurangam Kumaraguru (“PK”) is a Professor of Computer Science at IIIT-Hyderabad. He is an Adjunct Faculty at IIT Madras and IIIT Delhi. PK is a Serial Academician with formal appointments (Adjunct/Visiting) in India and across the world, including Brazil, Europe, and USA. He is a senate / academic council member at IIIT Una, JKLU, and LNMIIT Jaipur. PK was inducted an ACM Distinguished Member in 2021. PK is currently (from July 2024) the Vice President of ACM India Council and has been a member since July 2020. PK was listed in the World’s 2% Scientists by Stanford University in Nov 2020. PK is a TEDx and an ACM Distinguished & ACM India Eminent Speaker. PK received his Ph.D. from the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). PK’s research interests are responsible & safe AI, applied machine learning & NLP, and social network analysis. His Ph.D. thesis work on anti-phishing research at CMU contributed in creating an award-winning startup – Wombat Security Technologies, wombatsecurity.com. Wombat was acquired in March 2018 for USD 225 Million. Please connect with PK at LinkedIn, and Twitter. 

 Prof. Ponnurangam Kumaraguru
IIIT Hyberabad