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Contact Information

Name Atmadeep Ghoshal
Professional Title PhD Researcher
Email atmadeep.ghoshal@kcl.ac.uk
Phone
Location London, England

Professional Summary

PhD Researcher at the Civic and Responsible AI Lab, King’s College London, working on responsible AI for robotics and large language models in non-WEIRD and Global South contexts.

Experience

  • 2024 -

    Co-founder and CEO
    Ataraxia Research
    Building domain-specific harm taxonomies and preference alignment pipelines for regulated industries, with a focus on the Indian sociotechnical context.
  • 2025 -

    Graduate Research Assistant
    King's College London
    UK AISI funded project on human-AI collaboration frameworks for autonomous underwater robots.
    • Interviewed professionals from UK Army, UK Navy and private bodies on maritime AI autonomy
    • Conducted quantitative user studies on AI-enabled systems in the maritime sector
    • Designed and evaluated experiments on human-AI complementarity in maritime operations
  • 2025 - 2025

    Graduate Research Assistant
    King's College London
    Contributed to a machine learning system to assess risks of emerging AI technologies using patent data from Lens.org.
    • Developed search strings and annotation protocols for security-related AI patents under EU AI Act taxonomies
    • Annotated 250+ patents for automated risk assessment training datasets
    • Conducted statistical analysis of patent data across risk categories
  • 2022 - 2023

    Predoctoral Fellow
    IIIT Delhi
    CDNM Predoctoral Fellowship investigating the use of social robots in the Global South.

Education

  • 2024 -

    London, UK

    PhD
    King's College London
    Computer Science
    • Advisors: Dr. Martim Brandão, Dr. Ruba Abu-Salma and Dr. Sanjay Modgil
    • Fully funded NMES Faculty International PhD Studentship
  • 2020 - 2022

    Kolkata, India

    MA
    Jadavpur University
    Sociology
    • Advisor: Prof. Amites Mukhopadhyay
    • University Gold Medal for standing first class first
  • 2017 - 2020

    Kolkata, India

    BA
    Jadavpur University
    Sociology
    • University Gold Medal for standing first class first

Awards

  • 2025
    ICLR Bi-Align Travel Award
    Prolific and Layer 6 AI

    For attending ICLR 2025

  • 2024
    King's College London Global Research Grant
    King's College London

    For doctoral studies

  • 2024
    NMES Faculty International PhD Studentship
    King's College London

    Fully funded studentship for doctoral studies 2024-2028

  • 2024
    Gary Marsden Travel Award
    ACM CHI

    For attending CHI 2024

  • 2022
    CDNM Predoctoral Fellowship Award
    IIIT Delhi

    For investigating the use of social robots in the Global South

  • 2022
    University Gold Medal
    Jadavpur University

    First class first in postgraduate sociology program

  • 2020
    University Gold Medal
    Jadavpur University

    First class first in undergraduate sociology program

Skills

Programming Languages: Python
Qualitative Research Methods: Ethnography, Participatory Design, Interviews, Survey, Horizon Scanning
Research Interests: Human Centred AI, AI Alignment, Participatory AI Design, LLM Evaluation in Global South, Constitutional AI, Red Teaming Automation

Languages

English : Fluent
Bengali : Native speaker
Hindi : Fluent