Ramaravind Kommiya Mothilal

Ramaravind Kommiya Mothilal is a PhD student in the Faculty of Information and a graduate fellow of the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society (SRI) at the University of Toronto. He is co-advised by Ishtiaque Ahmed and Shion Guha. Ramaravind is also a member of the Department of Computer Science’s Third Space research group, Dynamics Graphics Project lab, and iSchool’s Human-Centred Data Science Lab.

Before starting his PhD, Ramaravind worked as a Data Scientist at Everwell Health Solutions and as a pre-doctoral AI Center Fellow at Microsoft Research India. During these years, he has built dashboards for state organizations, developed optimal incentive schemes for spreading public awareness messages, created open-source software to explain ML models, and analyzed caste hierarchy and information flow within the online social networks of Indian politicians.

Fairness questions about ML development and deployment in societally critical spaces; the intersection of fairness, justice, and ML-based content moderation systems; understanding various tensions, expectations, and subtle technical assumptions that go into developing ML-based information systems; developing tools to support ML practitioners and other stakeholders in their fairness-related works in practice

• M.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence – KU Leuven, Belgium
• Undergraduate degree in Instrumentation and Control Engineering – NIT Trichy, India

• Recipient of the graduate fellowship by Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society at the University of Toronto