Pranav Khadpe

I am a fifth-year PhD candidate in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, where I work with Chinmay Kulkarni and Geoff Kaufman.

I am a human-computer interaction researcher. I am interested in modeling social cognition concepts (how people reason about others' minds, social norms, and moral principles) and putting them to work in two areas:

• Building intelligent communication tools: mechanisms that facilitate constructive communication, media-authoring tools that anticipate audience reactions.
• Improving the safety and efficacy of socially-situated AI systems: measuring the risks of social phenomena such as sycophancy and anthropomorphism in human-AI interaction, and designing AI systems that are better aligned with diverse social and cultural contexts.

Previously, I was a research intern at Microsoft Research (Human Understanding and Empathy Group and Multilingual Systems Group) and Stanford HCI. My undergraduate degree was in Electrical Engineering from IIT Kharagpur.

Support: My work has been supported by the NSF, Google, the Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, and a UROVO Presidential Fellowship.

Find me: Pittsburgh, PA pkhadpe@cs.cmu.edu @pranavkhadpe