Krishna Pillutla

Krishna Pillutla is an Assistant Professor and Narayanan Family Foundation Fellow in the Wadhwani School of Data Science & AI, and a Principal Investigator at the Centre for Responsible AI at IIT Madras, India. His research focuses on developing AI that is privacy-preserving and robust, with a focus on applications advancing public good. Pillutla’s research has been recognized by an Outstanding Paper Award at NeurIPS and a J.P. Morgan Ph.D. fellowship. He earned his PhD, master’s, and bachelor’s degrees respectively from the University of Washington, Carnegie Mellon University, and IIT Bombay. Pillutla has also held research positions at Google Research and Meta AI (FAIR).

AI2050 Project

Pillutla imagines a future where cutting-edge foundation model-based AI can deliver high utility at scale in sensitive domains like healthcare and finance, while offering provable protection for the privacy-sensitive data powering these models. To this end, they will develop computationally efficient (multi-modal) fine-tuning, inference, and reasoning approaches such that contextually privacy-sensitive information in each of these settings provably cannot be leaked. This research ultimately paves the way for more ethical and trustworthy AI in critical applications that benefit society.