Jayati Deshmukh

Jayati Deshmukh is an Assistant Professor at Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani – Hyderabad Campus, in the Computer Science and Information Systems department. 

She was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Southampton, working with Prof. Sarvapali (Gopal) Ramchurn on the Responsible AI UK project and with Prof. Sebastian Stein on the Citizen-Centric Artificial Intelligence Systems project. She continues being a Visiting Researcher at Southampton.

Before that, she did a PhD advised by Prof. Srinath Srinivasa at IIIT-Bangalore. Her PhD thesis was titled “Computational Transcendence: A Model for Emergent Responsible Agency in Multi-Agent Systems”. She is a member of the Web Science Lab (WSL) at IIITB.

Her broad research interests are in the areas of autonomous systems, multi-agent systems, responsible AI, AI ethics, network science and game theory. 

Previously, she has also worked on natural language processing, machine learning, knowledge graphs and deep learning.