Aparna Balagopalan is a PhD student in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at MIT, advised by Prof. Marzyeh Ghassemi. Her research broadly focuses on developing fair and robust machine learning models for deployment contexts such as healthcare. Prior to this, she received a Master’s degree in Applied Computing  from the University of Toronto and a BTech degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from IIT Guwahati.