Atmadeep Ghoshal

PhD Student, King's College London

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Civic and Responsible AI Lab

Department of Informatics

King's College London

atmadeep.ghoshal@kcl.ac.uk

I am a PhD student at King’s College London, supervised by Martim Brandão, Ruba Abu-Salma, and Sanjay Modgil.

My research is broadly about responsible AI for robotics and large language models in non-WEIRD and Global South contexts. I study how LLM-controlled robots and foundation models fail communities that are underrepresented in mainstream AI development. My current work includes benchmarking LLM-integrated robotic systems for adversarial robustness in India-specific risk scenarios, developing participatory harm taxonomies for foundation models deployed in the Indian sociotechnical context, and examining how LLMs reason about culturally situated ethical dilemmas.

Prior to my PhD, I was a predoctoral research fellow at the Human Machine Interaction Lab at IIIT Delhi where I was advised by Dr. Jainendra Shukla and Dr. Ratan Suri and mentored by Dr. Ashwini B.

news

Apr 30, 2026 We have got a spotlight at ICML’26 for our work on AI Safety for generative companionship bots! This work was a result of combined efforts across 5 different institutes in the UK and India
Mar 03, 2026 My paper with Seabot Maritime and Frontier Robotics, on accountability in autonomous systems has been accepted at FAccT’26
Jan 15, 2026 My paper on Indian Ethnographers and Responsible AI has been accepted at CHI’26

selected publications

  1. AIES
    Embodied AI at the Margins: Postcolonial Ethics for Intelligent Robotic Systems
    Atmadeep Ghoshal, Martim Brandao, Ruba Abu-Salma, and 1 more author
    In Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society, 2025
  2. CHI
    “It looks useful, works just fine, but will it replace me?” Understanding Special Educators’ Perception of Social Robots for Autism Care in India
    B Ashwini, Atmadeep Ghoshal, Venkata Ratnadeep Suri, and 2 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2024
  3. ICLR Workshop
    Value Alignment in the Global South: A Multidimensional Approach to Norm Elicitation in Indian Contexts
    Atmadeep Ghoshal, Martim Brandao, and Ruba Abu-Salma
    In ICLR 2025 Workshop on Bidirectional Human-AI Alignment, 2025
  4. CHI
    From the Field to the Algorithm: Understanding Indian Ethnographers’ Perspectives on Responsible AI
    Anasmita Ghoshal and Atmadeep Ghoshal
    In Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2026
  5. FAccT
    Uncovering Blindspots for Systemic Safety: Relational Accountability in Maritime Autonomous Systems
    Atmadeep Ghoshal, Caitlin Bentley, Gordon Meadow, and 8 more authors
    In ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, 2026
  6. ICML
    Position: Responsible AI for AI Companions Must Actively Combat Violence Toward Intimate Partners
    Atmadeep Ghoshal, Anasmita Ghoshal, Volodymyr Shevchenko, and 4 more authors
    In International Conference on Machine Learning, 2026