Aditya Gulati

I am currently a PhD student at the ELLIS Unit Alicante where I am working on the intersection of irrational human behaviour and Artificial Intelligence with Nuria Oliver. I am also supervised by Bruno Lepri from Fondazione Bruno Kessler and Miguel Angel Lozano from the University of Alicante. My current research is focused on the attractiveness halo effect i.e., our tendency to associate attractiveness with other unrelated traits such as intelligence or trustworthiness. We evaluate the impact AI-based beauty filters have on this well established cognitive bias in decisions made by humans and AI systems.

I completed my Bachelors and Masters in Computer Science Engineering at the International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore in 2021. I was also a visiting scholar at the Dynamic Decision Making Lab at Carnegie Mellon University where I worked on modelling human behaviour in complex environments using Instance Based Learning Theory under the supervision of Prof. Cleotilde Gonzalez and Prof. Dinesh Babu Jayagopi. Outside of research, I also enjoy running! I ran my first half-marathon earlier this year in Salzburg and I'm training for my next run in Alicante :)

My research is supported by grants from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (ELIAS) and from Intel.