The Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS)

The Center for Education and Research in
Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS)
Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security

Romila Pradhan

Romila Pradhan

Title

Assistant Professor 

Department

Office

KNOY 287 

Email

rpradhan@purdue.edu 

URL

https://polytechnic.purdue.edu/profile/rpradhan 

Vita

https://romilapradhan.github.io/ 

Education

Ph.D., Computer Science, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 2018
M.S., Mathematics and Computing, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, India, 2008
B.S., Mathematics and Computing, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, India, 2008 

Key Areas

Responsible data science, Data management, Machine learning 

Notable Awards

Google Research Scholar Award. 

Biography

Dr. Pradhan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer & Information Technology at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. Her research interests are in the areas of data management and data science. Her research is driven by the need to build trustworthy and responsible decision-making systems. More recently, Dr. Pradhan has been building systems that facilitate explainability, fairness, and accountability of data-driven decision-making systems.

Before joining Purdue CIT, Dr. Pradhan held a Postdoctoral Researcher position in the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute at the University of California San Diego, and was a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Purdue University. She has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Purdue University, and a B.S. and M.S. in Mathematics and Computing from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, India.