Krishna Pillutla

Assistant Professor

Privacy and robustness in ML/AI

Dr. Krishna Pillutla is an assistant professor in the Department of Data Science and AI at IIT Madras. Previously, he was a visiting researcher at Google Research in Mountain View, CA with the Federated Learning team. Dr. Krishna received his Ph.D. from the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, under the advisement of Zaid Harchaoui and Sham Kakade. Prior to that, he worked with Nina Balcan for his Master’s degree at Carnegie Mellon University and received an undergraduate degree from IIT Bombay.

Dr. Krishna’s research has been recognized by an Outstanding Paper Award at NeurIPS 2021, a J.P. Morgan Ph.D. fellowship (2019), and two Honourable Mentions for the American Statistical Association (ASA) Student Paper Award.