Our Team
People building strategic and responsible AI
Faculty, researchers, students, project staff, and collaborators working across game theory, machine learning, fairness, and decision systems.
Faculty
Dr. Shweta Jain
Assistant Professor
Shweta Jain is an assistant professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at the Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar. Her research interests are machine learning, game theory, and mechanism design. She obtained her Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from IISc, Bangalore, and worked as an assistant professor at IIT Bhubaneswar before joining IIT Ropar. She is also heading the Indo-Taiwan Joint Research Center at IIT Ropar.
Co-ordinator: Indo-Taiwan Joint Research Center on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, IIT Ropar
SPC Member: IJCAI 2021, IJCAI 2022
PC Member: AAAI 2024, AAAI 2022, AAAI 2021, IJCAI 2020, WebConf 2020 (Social Network Track)
Dr. Swapnil Dhamal
Assistant Professor
Swapnil Dhamal is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar. His research focuses on game-theoretic aspects in contemporary domains such as social networks, transportation planning, and blockchain. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from IISc, Bangalore. Prior to joining IIT Ropar, he held postdoctoral positions at Telecom SudParis (CNRS), INRIA Sophia Antipolis (Laboratoire Informatique d'Avignon), and Chalmers University of Technology.
Members
Post Doctoral
Dr. Shweta Chauhan
Natural Language Processing, Machine Translation, Low-resource Languges
Post Doctoral Researcher
Members
Ph.D Scholar
Napendra Singh Rajput
Computational Social Choice
Subham Pokhriyal
Fairness in Multi-armed Bandits
Shradha Sharma
Client Selection in Federated Learning
Raman Kumar
TBD
Greeshma Panathale
Fairness in Influence Maximisation over Social Networks
Anuj Agarwal
TBD
Mudit Sharma
Dueling Bandits
PhD Alumni
Shivam Gupta
Fair Algorithms in Unsupervised Learning (2020-2025)
Next Stop: IIT Bhilai as Assistant professor
Project Staff
Current
Open for Intake
Project staff positions may be announced based on project requirements.
M.Tech
Current
Open for Intake
Past
Soumya Sarkar
Explainable AI
Nitin Singhal
Federated Recommender System
Sumeet Gupta
Human-in-AI-loop
Kirandeep Kaur
Federated Recommender Systems
Vishal Chaudhary
Interpretable Clustering
BOROJU ARTHIK
Power Grid
Ajay Gangwar
Boosting Techniques
B.Tech
Current
Utkarsh Patel
Matching under Uncertainity
Ananya Sethi
Matching under Uncertainity
Aniket
Recommender System
Akash
Recommender System
Ashish
Dueling Bandits
Satvik
Dueling Bandits
Hetvi
Large Language Models
Past
Ojjasvi
Fair routing
Aman
Fair routing
Harpreet Singh
Fair routing
Archit Sood
Restless bandits
Tarushi
Federated Clustering
Tsing
Federated Clustering
Ayushi
Fair Division
Raj
Fair Division
Jaglike Makkar
Federated Clustering
Bhumika
Federated Clustering
Srikant Saxena
Group Fair Recommender Systems
Dhruv Solanki
Matrix Factorization
Sudhanshu
Matrix Factorization
Vitesh Bangar
Fair allocation over graph
Hiren Gupta
Fair allocation over graph
Virat Jain
Federated Learning
Kritika Bansal
Federated Learning
Vikalp Dhalwal
Recommender Systems
Akanksh Caimi
Recommender Systems