I am an Assistant Professor in the Interactive Intelligence group, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, and Computer Science (EEMCS), at the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft).
I received a PhD in Computer Science (2016) from North Carolina State University. Prior to TU Delft, I have been an Assistant Professor at Rochester Institute of Technology (2017—2019), an intern at Google, and Software Engineer at Alcatel-Lucent.
I co-direct the Hippo lab, a Delft AI lab on decision support for fair and interpretable public policy. I am a participating researcher in the Hybrid Intellgence center.
Engineering socially intelligent agents is the overarching theme of my research. I envision computing systems as sociotechnical systems that support rich interactions between humans and computational agents, enabling a variety of individual and societal applications. I seek to develop (1) cognitive abstractions (e.g., values, norms, trust, and contexts) for systematically engineering sociotechnical systems; (2) deliberation and negotiation techniques to support rich, many-to-many, interactions among humans and agents, and (3) data-driven methods for supporting decision making by intelligent agents. My works address research challanges that often span multiple computing subareas.
Ongoing Projects
| Hippo Lab | Hippo Lab is part of the TU Delft AI Labs and Talent Program. The aim of the Hippo Lab is to develop AI techniques for fair, efficient, and interpretable policy analysis. Pradeep co-directs the Hippo Lab with Dr. Jazmin Zatarain Salazar. The Hippo Lab is a collaboration between the faculties of EEMCS (two PhD students) and TPM (two PhD students) | PI, Co-director, PhD (2) supervisor | 2021—2026 |
| Hybrid Intelligence | The Hybrid Intelligence (HI) Center is funded by a 10 year Zwaartekracht grant from the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science. The main goal of the HI project is develop methods, tools, and techniques to combine human and machine intelligence, expanding human intellect instead of replacing it. Pradeep is a coordinator for the Explainable HI research line and a member of the HI taskforce. Pradeep supervises two PhD students in this project. | Research line coordinator, Taskforce member, PhD (2) supervisor | 2020—2029 |
| RED&BLUE | RED&BLUE (Real Estate Development & Building in Low Urban Environments) is a a five-year transdisciplinary research program funded under the Dutch Research Agenda (NWA). Pradeep supervises a PhD student and PostDoc on developing an AI-supported integrative forum in the project. | Co-applicant, PhD (1) and PD (1) supervisor | 2022—2027 |