About me

Hi! I’m Maitreyi, a second-year PhD student in the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University, where I am advised by Prof. Bryan Wilder. Previously, I was at IIT Kharagpur, where I majored in Mathematics & Computing, and was fortunate to work with Prof. Partha Pratim Chakrabarti for my master’s thesis. In the past, I’ve had the privilege to work with Amit Sharma and Vineeth Balasubramanian at Microsoft Research (Summer 2025), with Prof. Dhanya Sridhar’s Causal ML Research Group at Mila - Quebec AI Institute (Summer 2023-24), and earlier with Dr. Manuel Gomez Rodriguez’s Human-Centric Machine Learning Group at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (Summer 2022).

My research interests span causal machine learning, developing methods robust to distribution shifts, and AI alignment and safety. Always happy to chat about these - especially if you’re into theory-meets-practice conversations.

News

• January 2026: Poster at the Bridging Prediction and Intervention Problems in Social Systems workshop at Simons Institute in Berkeley. [poster]
• December 2025: Paper on Distributionally Robust Feature Selection accepted at NeurIPS’25. [arXiv]
• August 2024: Started my PhD at Carnegie Mellon University.

I enjoy running (having run track in high school and college), playing squash, reading, and playing the piano. I am an avid quizzer was the governor of the IIT Kharagpur Quiz Club. You can find some of my sets here. I also like to dabble in making stop motion animations - which you might come across on some pages!