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<div>Nimisha Karnatak is a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at the University of Oxford, supervised by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Shadbolt">Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt</a> and <a href="https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/max.vankleek/">Professor Max Van Kleek</a>. Her research interests broadly span LLM post-training and evaluation; AI safety and scalable oversight; the reliability and factuality of AI systems; and foundational questions in AI ethics and the philosophy of AI, including AI alignment. She also studies large-scale AI deployments and their wider societal and economic implications, taking an end-to-end perspective on aligning, evaluating, and responsibly deploying advanced AI systems in high-stakes settings.</div>
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<div>Alongside her doctoral studies, Nimisha serves as an International Consultant at <img src="https://brandlogos.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/World-Bank-logo-icon-512x512.png" alt="&ldquo;&rdquo;" width="13" height="13" />&nbsp;<a href="https://www.worldbank.org/en/what-we-do">The World Bank</a> in Washington, D.C., USA, where her work focuses on factuality, AI evaluation, and assessing the real-world impacts of multi-agent AI systems deployed at global scale. Previously, she was a Student Researcher at <strong><span style="color: #3366ff;">G</span><span style="color: #ff0000;">o</span><span style="color: #f5ca0a;">o</span><span style="color: #3366ff;">g</span><span style="color: #33cccc;">l</span><span style="color: #ff0000;">e</span> </strong> <a href="https://deepmind.google/">DeepMind in London</a> focusing on multimodal co-creation and steering generative AI systems.</div>
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<div>Prior to beginning her doctoral studies at Oxford, Nimisha worked full-time for two years as a <a rel="noopener" href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/academic-program/research-fellows-program-at-microsoft-research-india/" target="_blank">Research Fellow</a> at <img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/44/Microsoft_logo.svg" alt="&ldquo;&rdquo;" width="14" height="14" />&nbsp;<a rel="noopener" href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/lab/microsoft-research-india/" target="_blank">Microsoft Research India</a>. Earlier in her career, she held research and internship positions at the International Labour Organization (ILO) in Geneva, the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IIT-R), the Indian School of Business (ISB), and the Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS) at the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). Her research has been published as first-author papers at premier venues including AAAI/ACM AIES, ACM CHI, ACM CSCW, and ACM TOCHI.</div>
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<h2>Publications</h2>
<p><strong>I.</strong> <strong>N. Karnatak</strong>, M. Van Kleek, and N. Shadbolt. <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.05602">Epistemic Trustworthiness in Generative AI: A Normative Framework for Warranted Reliance in High-Stakes Workflows</a>. <em>AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES 2026).</em><br /><a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.05602">Open-access paper</a>&nbsp;| <em>Official link forthcoming upon publication.</em></p>
<p><strong>II.</strong> <strong>N. Karnatak</strong>, M. Chatila, D. Pinzon, R. Yazdanfar, M. Dugas, and R. Vakis. Learning from AVA: Early Lessons from a Curated and Trustworthy Generative AI for Policy and Development Research. <em>ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2026).</em><br /><a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/full/10.1145/3772318.3791062">DOI</a> |<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2604.17843"> Open-access paper</a> | <a href="https://ava.nimishakarnatak.com/">AVA project website</a><a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/full/10.1145/3772318.3791062"></a></p>
<p><strong>III.</strong> <strong>N. Karnatak</strong>, A. F. Baranes, R. Marchant, H. Zeng, T. Butler, and K. Olson (2025). <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2504.14320">Expanding the Generative AI Design Space through Structured Prompting and Multimodal Interfaces</a>. <em>ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2025), Workshop on Designing and Developing User Interfaces with AI.</em><br /><a href="https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2504.14320"><em>DOI</em></a> | <a href="https://www.nimishakarnatak.com/acai/"><em>Project Website</em></a></p>
<p><strong>IV.</strong> <strong>N. Karnatak</strong>, A. F. Baranes, R. Marchant, T. Butler, and K. Olson. <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.06729">ACAI for SBOs: AI Co-Creation for Advertising and Inspiration for Small Business Owners</a>. <em>Google DeepMind Preprint.</em><br /><a href="https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2503.06729"><em>DOI</em></a> | <a href="https://www.nimishakarnatak.com/acai/"><em>Project Website</em></a></p>
<p><strong>V.</strong> <strong>N. Karnatak</strong>, M. Van Kleek, and N. Shadbolt (2024). Generative AI as Collaborative Technology for ASHA Workers in Marginalized Communities. <em>Collaborative AI and Modeling of Humans Bridge, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2024).</em></p>
<p><strong>VI.</strong> <strong>N. Karnatak</strong>, B. Loughrin, T. A. Kuo, O. Mateu-Silvernail, I. Medhi Thies, B. Thies, and M. Jain. <a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3609327">&ldquo;Is it even giving the correct reading or not?&rdquo;: How Trust and Relationships Mediate Blood Pressure Management in India</a>. <em>ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI).</em><br />Presented at <em>ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2024).</em><br /><a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/full/10.1145/3609327"><em>DOI</em></a></p>
<p><strong>VII.</strong> <strong>N. Karnatak</strong>*, M. Gupta*, and M. Jain (2024). <a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3637421">Understanding the Technology-Mediated Home Phlebotomy Ecosystem in India</a>. <em>ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2024).</em><br /><a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3637421"><em>DOI</em></a></p>
<p>*Equal authorship.<br /><br /></p>
<h2>Affiliations</h2>
<p><strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Active affiliations</strong></p>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">PhD Student, Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">International Consultant, The World Bank<br /></span> <span style="font-weight: 400;"> <br /></span> <strong>Former affiliations:<br /><br /></strong></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Student Researcher, Google DeepMind, London, UK</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Research Fellow, Microsoft Research India, Bengaluru, India</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Research Assistant, International Labour Organization (ILO), Geneva, Switzerland</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Research Intern, Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS), Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), Dehradun, India</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Research Intern, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IIT-R), India</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Research Intern, Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad, India</span></li>
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<h2><strong>Teaching</strong></h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Michaelmas 2024</span></p>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href="https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/pmp/subjects/IDE.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Interaction Design</span></a></li>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hilary 2026</span></p>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href="https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/teaching/courses/2025-2026/ai/index.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Artificial Intelligence</span></a></li>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Trinity 2026</span></p>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href="https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/pmp/subjects/IDE.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Interaction Design&nbsp;</span></a></li>
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<h2>Link</h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=3bXGqRoAAAAJ">Google Scholar</a> | <a href="https://www.nimishakarnatak.com/">Personal Website</a> | <a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2564-4924">ORCID</a> | <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/nimisha-karnatak/">LinkedIn</a></span></p>
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<p>&nbsp;</p><h2>Projects</h2><ul class="list-comma-separated"><li><a href="https://ava.nimishakarnatak.com/"><span itemprop="affiliation">Learning from AVA</span></a></li></ul><h2>Supervisors</h2><div class="row"><div itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" class="picturebox col-xs-6 col-sm-4 col-md-3  clear-xs clear-sm clear-md clear-lg"><a class="piccy" href="/people/Nigel.Shadbolt/" style="background-image:url('/files/7431//head%20and%20shoulders.jpg')"></a><center><a href="/people/Nigel.Shadbolt/"><span class="newcaption"><span itemprop="name">Nigel&nbsp;Shadbolt</span></span></a></center></div><div itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" class="picturebox col-xs-6 col-sm-4 col-md-3 "><a class="piccy" href="/people/Max.VanKleek/" style="background-image:url('/files/9248//max-one.png')"></a><center><a href="/people/Max.VanKleek/"><span class="newcaption"><span itemprop="name">Max&nbsp;Van Kleek</span></span></a></center></div></div>
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