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Gokul S Krishnan

Gokul S Krishnan

Research Director

CeRAI IIT Madras

Dr. Gokul S Krishnan currently serves as the Research Director at the Centre for Responsible AI (CeRAI), IIT Madras. He earlier served as a Senior Research Scientist within the same centre. Prior to this, he was a Guest Researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Maryland, USA, and a Research Scientist & Postdoctoral Fellow at the Robert Bosch Centre for Data Science and AI, IIT Madras. He earned his Ph.D. in Information Technology at the National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal. His research interests span Responsible AI, Healthcare Informatics, Machine/Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing, and Web Semantics. He received his M.Tech degree in Computer Science and Engineering from VIT University, Vellore, Tamil Nadu and B.Tech degree in Computer Science and Engineering from College of Engineering Chengannur, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kerala. He has several international journals and conference publications to his name and is also a reviewer for several SCI indexed journals. He is passionate about web/mobile app development and is a python language enthusiast as well.

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Publications

KANEx: Translating Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks' Interpretability to Medical Explainability
Krithi Shailya , Ananya Lakshmi Ravi , Sowmya S Sundaram , Gokul S Krishnan , Aditi Anand , Balaraman Ravindran
Peer Reviewed Paper 29th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI 2026) [Accepted] 2026
Judging LLM-as-a-Judge: Concerning Rubric Artifacts in LLM-based Automated Text Generation Evaluation
Anshul Bagaria , Sowmya S Sundaram , Gokul S Krishnan , Balaraman Ravindran
Peer Reviewed Paper Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2026) [To appear] 2026
A Prescription for Fairness
Featuring: Gokul S Krishnan
Media Happiest Health Magazine 2026
IIT Madras researchers warn against unchecked use of AI in law, propose 'Legal Safety Score' to tackle bias
Featuring: Gokul S Krishnan
Media The Hindu 2025
How IIT-M scientists are evaluating AI's 'bias' through an Indian lens
Featuring: Gokul S Krishnan
Media Hindustan Times 2025
IndiBias-based Contextually Aligned Stereotypes and Anti-Stereotypes (IndiCASA) Dataset
Santhosh G S , Akshay Govind S , Gokul S Krishnan , Balaraman Ravindran , Sriraam Natarajan
Peer Reviewed Paper Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society 8 (1):978-89 (2025) 2025 DOI: 10.1609/aies.v8i1.36605
Line Conversation Graphs for Effective Emotion Recognition using Graph Neural Networks
Gokul S Krishnan , Sarala Padi , Craig S Greenberg , Balaraman Ravindran , Dinesh Manocha , Ram D Sriram
Peer Reviewed Paper IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing (2025) 2025
LExT - Towards Evaluating Trustworthiness of Natural Language Explanations
Krithi Shailya , Shreya Rajpal , Gokul S Krishnan , Balaraman Ravindran
Peer Reviewed Paper Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency 2025 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3715275.3732104
Where Should I Study? Biased Language Models Decide! Evaluating Fairness in LMs for Academic Recommendations
Krithi Shailya , Akhilesh Kumar Mishra , Gokul S Krishnan , Balaraman Ravindran
Peer Reviewed Paper Proceedings of the 14th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 4th Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (IJCNLP-AACL 2025), pages 2291-2317 2025
Learning with Caution: Assessing LLM Performance on Answerable and Unanswerable Questions
Aditya Raj , Gokul S Krishnan , Sanjay Bankapur , Abhilash CB , Manjunath K Vanahalli
Peer Reviewed Paper International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE 2025) 2025
InSaAF: Incorporating Safety through Accuracy and Fairness | Are LLMs ready for the Indian Legal Domain?
Yogesh Tripathi , Raghav Donakanti , Sahil Girhepuje , Ishan Kavathekar , Bhaskara Hanuma Vedula , Gokul S Krishnan , Anmol Goel , Shreya Goyal , Balaraman Ravindran , Ponnurangam Kumaraguru
Peer Reviewed Paper 37th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (JURIX 2024) 2024
Participatory Approaches in AI Development and Governance: Case Studies
Ambreesh Parthasarathy , Aditya Phalnikar , Gokul S Krishnan , Ameen Jauhar , Balaraman Ravindran
Report / Discussion Paper arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.13103 2024
Participatory Approaches in AI Development and Governance: A Principled Approach
Ambreesh Parthasarathy , Aditya Phalnikar , Ameen Jauhar , Dhruv Somayajula , Gokul S Krishnan , Balaraman Ravindran
Report / Discussion Paper arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.13100 2024
Nuances of Fairness in AI Models
Gokul S Krishnan
Blog CeRAI Substack 2024
Evaluating Deployability of LLMs
Gokul S Krishnan
Blog CeRAI Substack 2024

Projects

Analyzing Fairness in Medical LMs
Gokul S Krishnan , Krithi Shailya , Shreyash Adappanavar , Balaraman Ravindran
Technical ResearchFairness/BiasHealthcare
Capacity Building Program for Government Officials
Balaraman Ravindran , Geetha Raju , Gokul S Krishnan , Devika Jay with CeRAI PIs/Leads
Capacity Building/SkillingPolicy ResearchSafety & RobustnessGovernance/Regulation
Explainable RL for sequential decision making in healthcare systems
Gokul S Krishnan , Sowmya S Sundaram , Devika Jay
Explainability/InterpretabilityTechnical ResearchHealthcare
From Principles to Practice: Responsible AI in Indian Healthcare
Balaraman Ravindran , Gokul S Krishnan , Geetha Raju , Urvashi Aneja , Harleen Kaur , Aayushi Vishnoi , Aarushi Gupta
Policy ResearchGovernance/RegulationHealthcare
Generating Domain Context Grounded Natural Language Explanations for Healthcare Tasks
Sowmya S Sundaram , Gokul S Krishnan , Krithi Shailya , Venkatanathan K. V. , Ananya Lakshmi Ravi , Aditi Anand , Balaraman Ravindran
Technical ResearchExplainability/InterpretabilityHealthcare
Global Dialogue on AI Governance - AI Partnership Hub
Balaraman Ravindran , Geetha Raju , Gokul S Krishnan , Devika Jay , Sowmya S Sundaram , Aravind Reddy , Sudarsun Santhiappan
Technical ResearchPolicy ResearchSafety & RobustnessGovernance/Regulation
Grounding RAI principles: Case Studies
Gokul S Krishnan , Sivaramakrishnan Guruvayur , Srinath K R
ai-and-societyregulationgovernance
InSaAF: Incorporating Safety through Accuracy and Fairness | Are LLMs ready for the Indian Legal Domain?
Yogesh Tripathi , Raghav Donakanti , Sahil Girhepuje , Ishan Kavathekar , Bhaskara Hanuma Vedula , Gokul S Krishnan , Shreya Goyal , Anmol Goel , Balaraman Ravindran , Ponnurangam Kumaraguru
ai-and-societysafe-ai
LExT - Towards Evaluating Trustworthiness of Natural Language Explanations
Gokul S Krishnan , Krithi Shailya , Shreya Rajpal , Balaraman Ravindran
Technical ResearchExplainability/InterpretabilityHealthcare
Participatory Approaches in AI Design, Development, Deployment and Governance
Gokul S Krishnan , Ambreesh Parthasarathy , Balaraman Ravindran , Aditya Phalnikar , Ameen Jauhar
Policy ResearchParticipatory AI/EquityGovernance/Regulation
Saakshya: Multi-Agent, RAG-Enhanced Framework for Deepfake Detection and Governance
Aravind Reddy , Gokul S Krishnan , Geetha Raju , Krishna Pillutla , Balaraman Ravindran , Dhruv Tibarewal , IIT Jodhpur
Technical ResearchSecurity
Safe GenAI for Education: Analyzing Geographical Bias in Career Guidance Conversations with LMs
Gokul S Krishnan , Krithi Shailya , Akhilesh Kumar Mishra , Balaraman Ravindran
Technical ResearchFairness/BiasEducation
Stereotype Detection in Indian Languages
Gokul S Krishnan , Sameer Deshpande , Chaithanya V , Balaraman Ravindran , Anindita Sahoo
Technical ResearchFairness/BiasMultilingual/Local Language
Stereotype Detection in the Indian Context (English)
Gokul S Krishnan , Santhosh G S , Akshay Govind , Balaraman Ravindran , Anindita Sahoo , Sriraam Natarajan , UT Dallas
Technical ResearchFairness/Bias
UPRIGHT: Understanding Socio-Technical Pathways of Risky GenAI Use: A Global North–South Seeding Project
Balaraman Ravindran , Oscar Oviedo-Trespalacios , Geetha Raju , Gokul S Krishnan , Krishnan Narayanan
Policy ResearchGovernance/RegulationEducationTechnical Research
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