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General Information

Haripriya Harikumar
Languages English, Malayalam

Education

  • 2019
    PhD
    Deakin University, Australia

Experience

  • 2024-till date
    Research Fellow
    University of Manchester
    • Under Prof. Samuel Kaski’s UKRI Turing AI World-Leading Researcher Fellowship
  • 2026
    Visiting Researcher
    Aalto University
    • To work closely with the PML group in Aalto University.
  • 2019-2024
    Postdoctoral Research Fellow
    Applied Artificial Intelligence Institute, Deakin University
    • Led a Safe and Responsible AI research team

Membership

    • An active member in Women in AI community (WAI)

Honors and Awards

  • 2025
    • European Lighthouse on Secure and Safe AI funds (ELSA) Grant 2025
    • Attended CISPA-ELLIS-Summer School 2025 in Trustworthy AI (August 4-8, 2025)
  • 2025
    • Secure and Trustworthy Machine Learning Conference Travel Grant
  • 2025
    • Works under UKRI Turing AI World-Leading Researcher Fellowship
    • Granted Global Talent Visa to work in UK
  • 2023
    • WiML Travel Grant to attend NeurIPS
  • 2015
    • PhD Scholarship

Academic Interests

  • AI Security
    • Adversarial attack and defense
    • Adversarial robustness
    • Backdoor attack and defense
    • Differential Privacy
    • Machine Unlearning
  • AI Safety
    • Bias
    • Adversarial robustness
  • Uncertainty
    • Reliability
    • Data manifold learning
    • Bayesian Experimental Design

Professional Services

  • Conference Reviewer: CVPR (2021-Current), AAAI (2022-Current), ICML (2024-Current), NeurIPS (2023-Current), AISTAT (2024-Current), ICCV (2023,2025), EUSIPCO (2019-2021), ECCV (2022,2024).