Summary
Pradeep Murukannaiah is an Associate Professor in the Interactive Intelligence group at TU Delft with 11+ years of research and engineering experience bridging AI, NLP, and multi-agent systems to support deliberation and decision-making on complex societal challenges like climate policy. He leads the Hippo lab and holds coordination roles within the Hybrid Intelligence center, translating interdisciplinary theory on values and norms into practical tools for fair, interpretable policy analysis. His background spans academia and industry—from software engineering at Lucent/Alcatel and internships at Google to PhD research in machine learning and RDF query processing—giving him rare fluency across systems, databases, and human-centered AI. Known for focusing on hybrid human-AI synergy, he combines rigorous multi-agent modeling with applied NLP to enable multi-stakeholder, multi-objective decisions.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at North Carolina State University
Bengaluru University
English, Hindi, Kannada