Preetam Dammu

Hello there! I am a second-year PhD student at the University of Washington, Seattle. I am interested in exploring ways to make machine learning solutions more robust, explainable, and scalable. I am fortunate to be advised by Prof. Chirag Shah.

Before starting my PhD, I was a researcher at TCS Research, where I worked on explainability and robustness in machine learning. During my Master’s, advised by Prof. Bapi Raju, I applied machine learning to solve problems in Neuroscience.

My current research interests lie in leveraging Generative AI for downstream tasks, and addressing technological issues associated with its adoption.

News

Jan 15, 2025	New tutorial – Information Seeking in the Age of Agentic AI accepted at CHIIR 2026! Looking forward to presenting it in March 2026.
Mar 8, 2024	New paper from Amazon internship accepted at WebConf 2024!
Nov 6, 2023	New paper accepted at NeurIPS 2023, XAIA Workshop!
Jun 12, 2023	Started internship at Amazon as Applied Scientist II
May 22, 2023	New paper accepted at IJCAI 2023!

Selected Publications

Detecting Spurious Correlations via Robust Visual Concepts in Real and AI-Generated Image Classification

Preetam Prabhu Srikar Dammu, and Chirag Shah

In 37th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), XAIA Workshop, 2023

Bib PDF

@inproceedings{dammu2023detecting,
  title = {Detecting Spurious Correlations via Robust Visual Concepts in Real and {AI}-Generated Image Classification},
  author = {Dammu, Preetam Prabhu Srikar and Shah, Chirag},
  booktitle = {37th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), XAIA Workshop},
  year = {2023},
  url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=ewagDhIy8Y},
}

Addressing Weak Decision Boundaries in Image Classification by Leveraging Web Search and Generative Models

Preetam Prabhu Srikar Dammu, Yunhe Feng, and Chirag Shah

In International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2023

Bib PDF

@inproceedings{Dammu2023AddressingWD,
  title = {Addressing Weak Decision Boundaries in Image Classification by Leveraging Web Search and Generative Models},
  author = {Dammu, Preetam Prabhu Srikar and Feng, Yunhe and Shah, Chirag},
  booktitle = {International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  year = {2023},
  url = {https://www.ijcai.org/proceedings/2023/659},
}