Balaraman Ravindran

Head of the Centre - Professor

Professor B. Ravindran heads the Department of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (DSAI), the Wadhwani School of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (WSAI) the Robert Bosch Centre for Data Science & Artificial Intelligence (RBCDSAI) and the Centre for Responsible AI (CeRAI) at IIT Madras.

Along with that, he is also the Mindtree Faculty Fellow at IIT Madras. Currently, his research interests are centred on learning from and through interactions and span the areas of geometric deep learning and reinforcement learning.

He received his PhD from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and his Master’s degree from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He is an elected fellow of the Association for Advancement of AI (AAAI) and Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), as well as an ACM Distinguished Member.