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Biography
Dr. Haripriya Harikumar is a Research Fellow at University of Manchester, Centre for AI Fundamentals. Pervisouly she was a Postdoctoral Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Applied AI Intelligence Institute at Deakin University. She completed her PhD degree from the Pattern Recognition and Data Analytics group (PRaDA) under the supervision of A/Prof. Santu Rana, A/Prof. Sunil Gupta, Dr. Thin Nguyen, and Alfred Deakin Prof. Svetha Venkatesh. Her research interest is to develop mechanisms to understand Adversarial Machine Learning such as adversarial attacks and defenses. She focuses on building frameworks to defend against these attacks in machine learning models to make them trustable and safe to use. She is also interested in machine unlearning, differential privacy, data manifold analysis, and out-of-distribution detection. She has papers published in top Machine Learning, Data Mining, and Computer Vision conferences. She is a program committee member of top conferences in Machine Learning and Computer Vision.
Education/Academic qualification
Doctor of Philosophy, Deakin University
External positions
Postdoctoral Researcher, Aalto University
7 Jan 2026 → 7 Aug 2026
Visiting Researcher, Deakin University
Nov 2024 → Aug 2025
Keywords
- Adversarial Machine Learning
- AI Security
- AI Privacy
- Bayesian Inference
- Uncertainty Quantification
- Robustness
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities -
SDG 13 Climate Action
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Defense Against Multi-target Multi-trigger Backdoor Attacks
Harikumar, H., Rana, S., Do, K., Gupta, S., Zong, W., Susilo, W. & Venkatesh, S., 2025, Data Science: Foundations And Applications, Pakdd 2025, Pt Vi. Wu, X., Spiliopoulou, M., Wang, C., Kumar, V., Cao, L., Zhou, X., Pang, G. & Gama, J. (eds.). p. 303-314 12 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
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Privacy-Preserving Neural Processes for Probabilistic User Modeling
Sonee, A., Harikumar, H., Hämäläinen, A., Prediger, L. & Kaski, S., 7 May 2025, Proceedings of the Forty-first Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence. Chiappa, S. & Magliacane, S. (eds.). Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, p. 3979-3998 20 p. (Proceedings of Machine Learning Research; vol. 286).Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
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Robust Nearest Neighbour Retrieval Using Targeted Manifold Manipulation
Ghosh, B., Harikumar, H. & Rana, S., 9 Nov 2025.Research output: Preprint/Working paper › Preprint
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Composite Concept Extraction through Backdooring
Ghosh, B., Harikumar, H., Doan, K., Venkatesh, S. & Rana, S., 2024, In FGVC, CVPR Workshop, non-archival, *equal contribution.Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
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Revisiting the Dataset Bias Problem from a Statistical Perspective
Do, K., Nguyen, D., Le, H., Le, T., Nguyen, D., Harikumar, H., Tran, T., Rana, S. & Venkatesh, S., 1 Jan 2024, arXiv, p. 1-32, 32 p. (ArXiv).Research output: Preprint/Working paper › Preprint
Projects
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MCAIF: Centre for AI Fundamentals
Kaski, S. (PI), Alvarez, M. (Researcher), Pan, W. (Researcher), Mu, T. (Researcher), Rivasplata, O. (PI), Sun, M. (PI), Mukherjee, A. (PI), Caprio, M. (PI), Sonee, A. (Researcher), Leroy, A. (Researcher), Wang, J. (Researcher), Lee, J. (Researcher), Parakkal Unni, M. (Researcher), Sloman, S. (Researcher), Menary, S. (Researcher), Quilter, T. (Researcher), Hosseinzadeh, A. (PGR student), Mousa, A. (PGR student), Glover, E. (PGR student), Das, A. (PGR student), DURSUN, F. (PGR student), Zhu, H. (PGR student), Abdi, H. (PGR student), Dandago, K. (PGR student), Piriyajitakonkij, M. (PGR student), Rachman, R. (PGR student), Shi, X. (PGR student), Keany, T. (PGR student), Liu, X. (PGR student), Jiang, Y. (PGR student), Wan, Z. (PGR student), Harrison, M. (Support team), Hartford, J. (PI), Kangin, D. (Researcher), Harikumar, H. (PI), Dubey, M. (PI), Parakkal Unni, M. (PI), Dash, S. P. (PGR student), Mi, X. (PGR student), Barlas, Y. (PGR student), Osho, T. (Support team), Tariq, M. (Support team), Zhang, X. (Researcher), Nzoyem, R. D. (Researcher) & Hudson, T. (Researcher)
1/10/21 → 30/09/26
Project: Research