Rahul Nair

Title

Senior Research Scientist

Bio

Rahul Nair is Senior Research Scientist at IBM Research and Adjunct Associate Professor at the School of Computer Science, University College Dublin. His current research interests are in trusted AI, model transparency, explainability, and technology for development. His expertise is in optimisation, machine learning which he has applied across sectors particularly transportation, healthcare, and business computing. He holds a Ph.D. from University of Maryland College Park.

Publications

EvalAssist: LLM-as-a-judge simplified
- - Michael Desmond
  - Zahra Ashktorab
  - et al.
- 2025
- AAAI 2025
Foundation Models at Work: Fine-Tuning for Fairness in Algorithmic Hiring
- - Buse Korkmaz
  - Rahul Nair
  - et al.
- 2025
- AAAI 2025
Ranking Large Language Models without Ground Truth
- - Amit Dhurandhar
  - Rahul Nair
  - et al.
- 2024
- ACL 2024
Human-Centered Design Recommendations for LLM-as-a-Judge
- - Qian Pan
  - Zahra Ashktorab
  - et al.
- 2024
- ACL 2024
Interactive Human-Centric Bias Mitigation
- - Inge Vejsbjerg
  - Elizabeth Daly
  - et al.
- 2024
- AAAI 2024
Cookie Consent Has Disparate Impact on Estimation Accuracy
- - Erik Miehling
  - Rahul Nair
  - et al.
- 2023
- NeurIPS 2023
Explaining knock-on effects of bias mitigation
- - Svetoslav Nizhnichenkov
  - Rahul Nair
  - et al.
- 2023
- NeurIPS 2023
Co-creating a globally interpretable model with human inputs
- - Rahul Nair
- 2023
- ICML 2023
An Explainable Forecasting System for Humanitarian Needs Assessment
- - Rahul Nair
  - Bo Schwartz Madsen
  - et al.
- 2023
- IAAI 2023
Assessing Users' Ability To Modify And Communicate Ai Models' Decision Boundaries Via A Low-code, Rules-based Approach
- - David Piorkowski
  - Inge Vejsbjerg
  - et al.
- 2022
- INFORMS 2022

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Patents

- 07 Apr 2025
- US
- 12271789
Interpretable Model Changes
- 07 Apr 2025
- US
- 12271788
Hybrid User Contributed Rules And Machine Learning Framework
- 23 Dec 2024
- US
- 12176107
Model Change Management Of Online Software As A Medical Device
- 25 Nov 2024
- US
- 12153879
Syntactic And Semantic Autocorrect Learning
- 30 Sep 2024
- US
- 12106193
Moving Decision Boundaries In Machine Learning Models
- 23 Sep 2024
- US
- 12100141
Three-dimensional Delineation Of Tumor Boundaries Via Supervised Machine Learning Algorithms And Augmented Reality
- 18 Sep 2023
- US
- 11763320
Extraction Of A Compliance Profile For An Organization
- 08 May 2023
- US
- 11645595
Predictive Capacity Optimizer
- 23 Jan 2023
- US
- 11562087
Sensitive Data Policy Recommendation Based On Compliance Obligations Of A Data Source
- 16 Jan 2023
- US
- 11556938
Managing Regulatory Compliance For An Entity

Projects

AIMEE
AI model explorer and editor tool.
Fluorescence-based Digital Surgery Decision Support
Analyzing and visualizing differences in blood flow patterns, made visible with fluorescent dyes and multispectral imaging.
AutoFair: Human-compatible Automation of Fairness in AI
Addressing the need for trusted AI in a range of practical industrial applications from recruitment, to fintech and advertising.