Member Profile : Balaraman Ravindran

Balaraman Ravindran

Professor
Email : ravi [at] cse [dot] iitm [dot] ac [dot] in | Phone : (+91)-44-2257-4370
Lab(s) : AIDB Lab, IIL Lab.
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Research Interests :

Machine learning, Reinforcement learning, Social Network Analysis, Data and text mining

Publications : (Last Five, while at IITM)DBLP | View All

Language Models can Subtly Deceive Without Lying: A Case Study on Strategic Phrasing in Legislation.
Authors : Atharvan Dogra, Krishna Pillutla, Ameet Deshpande, Ananya B. Sai, John J. Nay, Tanmay Rajpurohit, Ashwin Kalyan, Balaraman Ravindran
Appeared in Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), ACL 2025, Vienna, Austria, July 27 - August 1, 2025 (ACL 2025) ,Vol , No., pp.33367-33390, Aug 2025
LExT: Towards Evaluating Trustworthiness of Natural Language Explanations.
Authors : Krithi Shailya, Shreya Rajpal, Gokul S. Krishnan, Balaraman Ravindran
Appeared in Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, FAccT 2025, Athens, Greece, June 23-26, 2025, Vol , No., pp.1565-1587, Jun 2025
InSaAF: Incorporating Safety Through Accuracy and Fairness - Are LLMs Ready for the Indian Legal Domain?
Authors : Yogesh Tripathi, Raghav Donakanti, Sahil Girhepuje, Ishan Kavathekar, Bhaskara Hanuma Vedula, Gokul S. Krishnan, Anmol Goel, Shreya Goyal, Balaraman Ravindran, Ponnurangam Kumaraguru
Appeared in Legal Knowledge and Information Systems - JURIX 2024: The Thirty-seventh Annual Conference, Brno, Czech Republic, 11-13 December 2024 (JURIX 2024) ,Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, Vol 395, No., pp.344-351, Dec 2024
MABL: Bi-Level Latent-Variable World Model for Sample-Efficient Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning.
Authors : Aravind Venugopal, Stephanie Milani, Fei Fang , Balaraman Ravindran
Appeared in Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2024, Auckland, New Zealand, May 6-10, 2024 (AAMAS 2024) ,pp.1865-1873, May 2024
Zero-shot Learning based Alternatives for Class Imbalanced Learning Problem in Enterprise Software Defect Analysis.
Authors : Sangameshwar Patil, Balaraman Ravindran
Appeared in 21st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories, MSR 2024, Lisbon, Portugal, April 15-16, 2024 (MSR 2024) ,pp.140-141, Apr 2024

(Recent) Teaching : View All | Back to top

Jan 2024 - May 2024	:	- Reinforcement learning (CS6700)
Jul 2023 - Nov 2023	:	- Operating Systems Lab (CS3510)
Jul 2023 - Nov 2023	:	- Introduction to Programming (CS1100)
Jan 2023 - May 2023	:	- Big Data Laboratory (CS4830)
Jan 2023 - May 2023	:	- Reinforcement learning (CS6700)

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Program	Name	Roll No.	Joining Date	Funding
PhD	Sangameshwar Suryakant Patil	CS11D007	Jul 2011	EXTERNAL
PhD	Priyatosh Mishra	CS13D024	Jul 2013	PROJECT
PhD	Sudarsun Santhiappan	CS13D030	Jul 2013	PROJECT
PhD	Abhishek Ghose	CS15D004	Jan 2015	PART-TIME
PhD	Joseph Hosanna Raj I.	CS15D304	Jul 2015	HTRA
PhD	Tarun Kumar	CS15D017	Jan 2016	HTRA
PhD	Avinash Sharma	CS16D401	Jul 2016	HTRA
PhD	Gautham Muthravichandran	CS16D020	Dec 2016	PARTTIME
PhD	Chandrasekar Subramanian	CS19D010	Jan 2020	HTRA
PhD	Richa Verma	CS20D020	Sep 2020	HTRA
PhD	Argha Boksi	CS21D407	Jan 2022	HTRA
PhD	Returaj Burnwal	CS21D406	Jan 2022	HTRA
MS	Prasanna P	CS14S016	Jan 2014	PROJECT (NHTRA)
MS	Deepak Mittal	CS15S014	Jan 2015	PROJECT
MS	Girraj Pahariya	CS15S017	Jan 2015	PROJECT
MS	Priyesh V	CS15S012	Jan 2015	PROJECT
MS	Akash Jain	CS15S037	Jul 2015	PROJECT
MS	Beethika Tripathi	CS15S004	Jul 2015	HTRA
MS	Nikita Moghe	CS16S016	Jul 2016	PROJECT
MS	Karthik Thiagarajan	CS16S027	Dec 2016	PROJECT
MS	Pavan Ravishankar	CS17S026	Jul 2017	HTRA
MS	Kakadiya Ashutosh Dilipbhai	CS18S013	Jul 2018	HTRA
MS	Rajan Kumar Soni	CS18S038	Jan 2019	HTRA
MS	Pranshu Malviya	CS19S031	Jan 2020	PROJECT
MS	Kartik	CS20S020	Sep 2020
MS	Manoj Bharadwaj	CS20S056	Jan 2021	PROJECT
M.Tech	Vinamr Goel	CS15M052	Jul 2015	HTTA

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Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India.

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