Abbavaram Gowtham Reddy

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Abbavaram Gowtham Reddy
Ph.D. Student (Prime Minister Research Fellow from 2020 to 2023)
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad
Research Interests: Causal representation learning, Statistical causal inference, Causal modelling of machine and deep learning models, Neurosymbolic AI
Contact: Email, CV, Linkedin, Github, Google Scholar

I am a final year Ph.D. student at IIT Hyderabad. I am advised by Prof. Vineeth N Balasubramanian. I work on the research problems at the intersection of Causality and AI. I like to play chess and write poems (mostly in Telugu) in my free time.

Research Publications (3 x AAAI, 1 x ICML, 3 x Workshop CVPR-w Best Paper Award , NeurIPS-w, AAAI-w)

  • [AAAI 2024] Abbavaram Gowtham Reddy, Saketh Bachu, Harsharaj Pathak, Benin L Godfrey, Vineeth N Balasubramanian, Varshaneya V, Sathya Narayanan Kar. Towards Learning and Explaining Indirect Causal Effects in Neural Networks. [pdf] [code]

  • [AAAI 2024] Abbavaram Gowtham Reddy, Vineeth N Balasubramanian. NESTER: An Adaptive Neurosymbolic Method for Causal Effect Estimation. [pdf] [code]

  • [Are Large Language Models Simply Causal Parrots? - AAAI 2024 Workshop] Aniket Vashishtha, Abbavaram Gowtham Reddy, Abhinav Kumar, Saketh Bachu, Vineeth N. Balasubramanian, Amit Sharma, Causal Inference using LLM-Guided Discovery. [pdf] [code]

  • [CML4Impact - NeurIPS 2022 Workshop] Abbavaram Gowtham Reddy*, Saloni Dash*, Amit Sharma, Vineeth N Balasubramanian. Counterfactual Generation Under Confounding. [paper link] (*=equal contribution)

  • [ICML 2022] Abbavaram Gowtham Reddy*, Kancheti Sai Srinivas*, Vineeth N Balasubramanian, Amit Sharma. Matching Learned Causal Effects of Neural Networks with Domain Priors [pdf] [code](*=equal contribution)

  • [AAAI 2022] Abbavaram Gowtham Reddy, Benin Godfrey L, Vineeth N Balasubramanian. On Causally Disentangled Representations [pdf] [code]

  • [Best Paper Award @ Causality in Vision - CVPR 2021 Workshop ] Abbavaram Gowtham Reddy, Benin Godfrey L, Vineeth N Balasubramanian. CANDLE: An Image Dataset for Causal Analysis in Disentangled Representations. [code]

  • [AIES 2021] Abbavaram Gowtham Reddy. Causality in Neural Networks - An Extended Abstract [pdf]

Research Services

  • Student volunteer at Asian Conference on Machine Learning, Hyderabad, 2022

  • Reviewer at AAAI 2024, AAAI 2023, ICML 2022, CVPR 2022, WACV 2022, ACML 2021

  • Sub-reviewer at AISTATS 2024, ICML 2022, ICLR 2022, NeurIPS 2021, CVPR 2021, NeurIPS 2020, ECCV 2020, BMVC 2020

Research Forums Attended

  • Google Research Week, India, 2023. Poster Presentation

  • Amazon Research Days, India, 2023. Poster Presentation

  • Google Research Week, India, 2023.

  • Amazon Research Days, India, 2022. Poster Presentation

Fellowships, Awards, and Recognitions

  • DAAD AI-net fellowship for the Postdoc Networking in AI 2024.

  • Prime Minister Research Fellowship (PMRF), Sep 2020 - Jul 2023.

  • Research Excellence Award from IIT Hyderabad for the academic year 2022 - 2023.

  • Qualified for Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) 2 times (2015 June, 2016 June) and Assistant Professorship 3 times (2013 Dec, 2014 June, 2014 Dec) in National Eligibility Test (UGC-NET) conducted by University Grants Commission India.

  • Fearless Problem Solver by EPAM India in 2018.

  • Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) - 2012 - All India Rank 1543.

Teaching

  • Teaching Assistant (TA) for the course “Introduction to Programming” offered by Dr. Vineeth N Balasubramanian at IIT Hyderabad during Aug 2023 - Dec 2023.

  • Mathematical Foundations of Machine Learning at BVRIT, Hyderabad as part of PMRF teaching activities during Jan 2022 - May 2022.

  • Mathematical Foundations of Machine Learning at PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore as part of PMRF teaching activities during Sep 2021 - Nov 2021.

  • Teaching Assistant (TA) for the course “Deep Learning for Computer Vision” offered by Dr. Vineeth N Balasubramanian as part of the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) during July2020-Nov 2021.

  • Basics of Computer Science in SV College of Engineering, Tirupati as part of PMRF teaching activities during Dec2020-May2021.

  • Teaching Assistant (TA) for the course “Causal Inference and Learning” offered by Dr. Vineeth N Balasubramanian at IIT Hyderabad during Jan 2021 - May 2021.

  • Teaching Assistant (TA) for the course “Deep Learning for Computer Vision” offered by Dr. Vineeth N Balasubramanian as part of the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) during Sep2020-Dec 2020.

Education

  • PhD (9.38 CGPA), Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Telangana, India, Aug. 2019- Present

  • MTech, School of IT, JNTU Hyderabad. 2013-2015

Work Experience

  • Research Intern, Microsoft Research India, 07-2022 to 10-2022

  • Software Engineer, EPAM India, 09-2015 to 07-2018