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 second year PhD student in the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University, advised by Fei Fang, and funded by an NSF Fellowship. My research focuses on principled approaches to real-world decision-making, including topics such as resource allocation, explainability, and human-AI collaboration. My work has been deployed to domains including food insecurity and behavioral health.

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.

If you want to chat about any of these topics, or just about research in general, feel free to reach out!

Publications

Most recent publications on Google Scholar.
‡ indicates equal contribution.

PeerCoPilot: A Language Model-Powered Assistant for Behavioral Health Organizations

Gao Mo‡, Naveen Raman‡, Megan Chai, Cindy Peng, Shannon Pagdon, Nev Jones, Hong Shen, Peggy Swarbrick, and Fei Fang

Under Submission

Do Concept Bottleneck Models Obey Locality?

Naveen Raman, Mateo Espinosa Zarlenga, Juyeon Heo, Mateja Jamnik

TMLR '25

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Assortment Optimization for Matching Patients and Providers

Naveen Raman, Holly Wiberg

ML4H Findings '24

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Global Rewards in Restless Multi-Armed Bandits

Naveen Raman, Ryan Shi, Fei Fang

NeurIPS '24

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Understanding Inter-Concept Relationships in Concept-Based Models

Naveen Raman, Mateo Espinosa Zarlenga, Mateja Jamnik

ICML '24

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PeerCoPilot: A Language Model-Powered Assistant for Behavioral Health Organizations

Gao Mo‡, Naveen Raman‡, Megan Chai, Cindy Peng, Shannon Pagdon, Nev Jones, Hong Shen, Peggy Swarbrick, and Fei Fang

Under Submission

Do Concept Bottleneck Models Obey Locality?

Naveen Raman, Mateo Espinosa Zarlenga, Juyeon Heo, Mateja Jamnik

TMLR '25

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Large Language Models in Peer-Run Community Behavioral Health Services: Understanding Peer Specialists and Service Users’ Perspectives on Opportunities, Risks, and Mitigation Strategies

Megan Chai‡, Cindy Peng‡, Gao Mo, Naveen Raman, Shannon Pagdon, Fei Fang, Nev Jones, Peggy Swarbrick, Hong Shen

Under Submission

Contextual Budget Allocation for Food Rescue Volunteer Engagement

Ariana Tang, Naveen Raman, Fei Fang, Ryan Shi

Under Submission

Data-driven Design of Randomized Control Trials with Guaranteed Treatment Effects

Santiago Cortes-Gomez, Naveen Raman, Aarti Singh, Bryan Wilder

ICML '25

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Assortment Optimization for Matching Patients and Providers

Naveen Raman, Holly Wiberg

ML4H Findings '24

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Global Rewards in Restless Multi-Armed Bandits

Naveen Raman, Ryan Shi, Fei Fang

NeurIPS '24

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Understanding Inter-Concept Relationships in Concept-Based Models

Naveen Raman, Mateo Espinosa Zarlenga, Mateja Jamnik

ICML '24

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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

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Improving Learning-to-Defer Algorithms Through Fine-Tuning

Naveen Raman, Michael Yee

NeurIPS '21 Human and Machine Decisions Workshop

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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

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

Naveen Raman, Sanket Shah, John Dickerson

IJCAI '21

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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

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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 (NIER Track)

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Reading List

    2025
  1. Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics by Tim Marshall
  2. Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty by Daron Acemoglu
  3. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
  4. Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design by Charles Montgomery
  5. Life on Earth by David Attenborough
  6. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
  7. South to America by Imani Perry
  8. Paradise Bronx: The Life and Times of New York's Greatest Borough by Ian Frazier
  9. Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics by Richard Thaler
    2024
  1. Congo: The Epic History of a People by David Van Reybrouck
  2. Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike by Phil Knight
  3. Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgement by Daniel Kahneman
  4. The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
  5. Collision of Power: Trump, Bezos, and the Washington Post by Martin Baron
  6. Afterparties by Anthony Veasna So
  7. Correction: Parole, Prison, and the Possibility of Change by Ben Austen
  8. American Wasteland: How America Throws Away Nearly Half of Its Food by Jonathan Bloom
  9. The Passage of Power by Robert Caro
  10. John Lewis by Raymond Arsenault
  11. Six Amendments: How and Why We Should Change the Constitution by John Paul Stevens
  12. Early Indians: The Story of Our Ancestors and Where We Came From by Tony Joseph
  13. The General in His Labyrinth by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  14. Blind Spots: When Medicine Gets It Wrong, and What It Means for Our Health by Marty Makary
  15. The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt
    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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Naveen Raman
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