I am an Assistant Professor in the Interactive Intelligence group (II/INSY/EEMCS) at TU Delft.
I co-direct the Hippo lab, a Delft AI lab on AI for fair, efficient, and interpretable analysis of climate policies. I also hold lead roles—Use Cases Coordinator, Diversity Co-Chair, and (previously) Explainable HI Research Line Coordinator— in the Hybrid Intellgence center.
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.
Research Summary
A sociotechnical system (STS) consists of interacting principals (humans and organizations) in the social tier and artificially intelligent (AI) agents representing principals in the technical tier. My research focuses on three key abstractions necessary for engineering an STS.
- Context defines the micro-society an STS represents.
- Value represents a principal's deep-rooted motivations to act.
- Norm captures a directed expectation between the principals.
I work on both agent-oriented methodologies for incorporating these abstractions in an STS and natural language processing (NLP) techniques for learning these abstractions from interactions among the STS stakeholders. My works appear multiagent systems (e.g., AAMAS and IJCAI), NLP (e.g., ACL and EMNLP) and software engineering (e.g., TOSEM and RE) among others.
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 |