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Suhas Thejaswi

Postdoctoral Fellow
Max Planck Institute for Software Systems
lastname (at) mpi-sws.org


About Me

I am a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, working with Dr. Manuel Gomez-Rodriguez. I received my PhD in Computer Science from Aalto University, Finland, where I was fortunate to be advised by Prof. Aristides Gionis. During my master’s studies, I had the opportunity to work as a research assistant with Prof. Petteri Kaski at Aalto University. Before starting my master’s studies, I worked as a (research) engineer at Nokia, Motorola, and Ericsson.

Research Interests

My primary research interest lies in the design of algorithms with provable theoretical guarantees, with an emphasis on responsible computing in automated decision-making systems, prioritizing design choices that mitigate systemic biases, unfairness and discrimination. My PhD research focused on designing scalable algorithms for societal challenges, including modeling epidemic propagation and developing algorithms for fair variants of unsupervised machine learning problems such as clustering and feature selection. More recently, I have been exploring the design algorithmic decision-support systems that encourage effective human-AI interaction—so that humans and algorithms together can perform better than either could alone—with the goal of achieving human-AI complementarity. In this context, I am also investigating how biases perpetuate when humans use algorithmic predictions to make final decisions, and how to mitigate these biases.

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