Naveen Raman

PhD Student Carnegie Mellon University
Previous MPhil @ University of Cambridge, Undergrad University of Maryland

naveenr [AT] cmu.edu

About

Hello! I'm a first year PhD student in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, funded by an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. I previously obtained my MPhil in Advanced Computer Science on a Churchill Scholarship, where I worked with Mateja Jamnik to understand explainability through concept learning models. I received my BS in Computer Science and Math from the University of Maryland, during which I worked with John Dickerson on fairness in rideshare, and with Jordan Boyd-Graber on entity linking algorithms. During my summers, I worked at MIT Lincoln Labs and Facebook.

My research focuses on improving machine learning for decision making, with a particular focus on multi-agent systems. This includes work on fairness in rideshare platforms [IJCAI'21], learning-to-defer algorithms [NeurIPS'21 WHMD], and my current work on bandits for food rescue platforms. I'm interested in tackling the following questions:

  1. How can we develop decision making algorithms in scenarios where agents are heterogenous, such as in heterogenous matching scenarios
  2. How can we overcome missing or incomplete data when making decisions in imperfect information scenarios
  3. How can we account for interactions amongst strategic agents when making decisions in multi-agent scenarios
If you want to chat about any of these topics, or just about research in general, feel free to reach out and contact me!

Publications

Most recent publications on Google Scholar.
indicates equal contribution.

Do Concept Bottleneck Models Obey Locality?

Naveen Raman, Mateo Espinosa, Juyeon Heo, Mateja Jamnik

NeurIPS '23 XAI: Past, Present, and Future Workshop

Human Uncertainty in Concept-Based AI Systems

Katherine M. Collins, Matthew Barker, Mateo Espinosa Zarlenga, Naveen Raman, Umang Bhatt, Mateja Jamnik, Ilia Sucholutsky, Adrian Weller, Krishnamurthy Dvijotham

AIES '23

Improving Learning-to-Defer Algorithms Through Fine-Tuning

Naveen Raman, Michael Yee

NeurIPS '21 Human and Machine Decisions Workshop

Data-Driven Methods for Balancing Fairness and Efficiency in Ride-Pooling

Naveen Raman, Sanket Shah, John Dickerson

IJCAI'21: International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 2021.

Stress and Burnout in Open Source: Toward Finding, Understanding, and Mitigating Unhealthy Interactions.

Naveen Raman, Minxuan Cao, Yulia Tsvetkov, Christian Kaestner, Bogdan Vasilescu

ICSE '20: International Conference on Software Engineering. 2020 (NIER Track)

Do Concept Bottleneck Models Obey Locality?

Naveen Raman, Mateo Espinosa, Juyeon Heo, Mateja Jamnik

NeurIPS '23 XAI: Past, Present, and Future Workshop

Human Uncertainty in Concept-Based AI Systems

Katherine M. Collins, Matthew Barker, Mateo Espinosa Zarlenga, Naveen Raman, Umang Bhatt, Mateja Jamnik, Ilia Sucholutsky, Adrian Weller, Krishnamurthy Dvijotham

AIES '23

Improving Learning-to-Defer Algorithms Through Fine-Tuning

Naveen Raman, Michael Yee

NeurIPS '21 Human and Machine Decisions Workshop

Eliciting Bias in Question Answering Models through Ambiguity

Andrew Mao, Naveen Raman, Matthew Shu, Eric Li, Franklin Yang, Jordan Boyd-Graber

EMNLP '21 Machine Reading for Question Answering Workshop

Data-Driven Methods for Balancing Fairness and Efficiency in Ride-Pooling

Naveen Raman, Sanket Shah, John Dickerson

IJCAI'21: International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 2021.

What more can Entity Linking do for Question Answering

Naveen Raman, Pedro Rodriguez, Jordan Boyd-Graber

NeurIPS '20: Human And Machine in-the-Loop Evaluation and Learning Strategies Workshop

Stress and Burnout in Open Source: Toward Finding, Understanding, and Mitigating Unhealthy Interactions.

Naveen Raman, Minxuan Cao, Yulia Tsvetkov, Christian Kaestner, Bogdan Vasilescu

ICSE '20: International Conference on Software Engineering. 2020 (NIER Track)

News

Reading List

    2023
  1. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
  2. Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
  3. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
  4. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
  5. The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker
  6. Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Pasos
  7. The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
  8. India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy by Ramachandra Guha
  9. A Promised Land by Barack Obama
  10. Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead
  11. Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond
  12. King: A Life by Jonathan Eig
  13. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemmingway
  14. Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton
  15. Who Gets What - and Why: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design by Alvin Roth
    2022
  1. The Masters and the Slaves by Gilberto Freyre
  2. The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
  3. The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
  4. The Art of Doing Science and Engineering by Richard Hamming
  5. How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities by John Cassidy
  6. Freakonomics by Steven Levitt
  7. About Town by Ben Yagoda
  8. When to Rob a Bank by Steven Levitt
  9. Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom
  10. Napoleon's Buttons by Jay Burreson
  11. The Summer Game by Roger Angell
  12. Possible Minds: Twenty five ways of looking at AI by John Brockman
  13. Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking by Samin Nosrat
  14. The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
  15. Mythologies by Roland Barthes
  16. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
  17. The Best American Science and Nature Writing by Sy Montgomery
  18. Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder
  19. The Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
  20. The Bad Side of Books by DH Lawrence
  21. Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki by Haruki Murakami
  22. Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
  23. The Argumentative Indian by Amartya Sen
  24. The Long Divergence by Timur Kuran
  25. Flash Boys by Michael Lewis
  26. The Bear and the Nightengale by Katherine Arden
  27. Street Gang: The Complete history of Sesame Street by Michael Davis
  28. The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company by Michael Davis
    2021
  1. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
  2. The Varieties of Religious Experiences by William James
  3. Rhinoceros by Eugene Ionesco
  4. Metamorphoses by Ovid
  5. Orientalism by Edward Said
  6. At home by Bill Bryson
  7. Intermediate Microeconomics: A Modern Approach by Hal Varian
  8. Botany for Gardners by Brian Capon
  9. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
  10. Ethics and the Military Profession by George Lucas and Rick Rubel
  11. Barry Goldwater by Robert Goldberg
  12. The American Language by H. L. Mencken
  13. The Piano Lesson by August Wilson
  14. The American Canon by Harold Bloom
  15. African Dominion by Michael Gomez
  16. The Golden Bough (Part 1) by James Frazer
  17. Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb
  18. What If by Randall Munroe
  19. Go Tell It On the Mountain by James Baldwin
  20. History of Opera by Stanley Sadie
  21. The Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald Volume 5 by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  22. Defeat into Victory by William Slim
    2020
  1. The Story of Art by Ernst Gombrich
  2. The Iliad by Homer
  3. The Aeneid by Virgil
  4. A History of Japan 1615-1867 by George Sansom
  5. Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Ardent
  6. Macroeconomics by George Mankiw
  7. Africa: A Biography of the Continent by John Reader
  8. Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 by W.E.B. Du Bois
  9. The History of Jazz by Ted Gioia
  10. Grant by Ron Chernow
  11. The Library of Greek Mythology by Apollodorus
  12. Master Harold...and the boys by Athol Fugard
  13. A Peace to End All Peace by David Fromkin
  14. China: A History by John Keay
  15. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
  16. Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
  17. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead by Tom Stoppard
  18. Osman's Dream by Caroline Finkel
  19. A Brief History the Late Ottoman Empire by M Sukru Hanioglu
  20. Hegel in 90 Minutes by Paul Strathern
  21. Empire of the Mind: A History of Iran by Michael Axworthy
  22. The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Acknowledgements

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