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Designing Public Sector AI Systems That People Actually Trust
Siddharth Mehrotra
Postdoc researcher: Human-AI Interaction
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Siddharth Mehrotra
Postdoc researcher: Human-AI Interaction
Namaste! My name is Siddharth. I am a postdoctoral researcher at University of Amsterdam working with Prof. Maarten de Rijke and with Dr. Roel Dobbe at TU Delft on studying citizen's trust in human-AI interaction with a focus on public sector AI system. Prior to this role, I spent a year working with Prof. Ben Crum at AI & Digital Governance lab at VU Amsterdam as a postdoc fellow. I completed my PhD from the Interactive Intelligence group, Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering & Mathematics of Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), the Netherlands, working with my advisor Dr. Myrthe Tielman and promotor Prof. Catholijn Jonker. I am fortunate and grateful to have wonderful supervisors who have received some of the highest honors such as ACM Fellow and Order of the Lion of the Netherlands.
My research interests are at the intersection of AI Safety, HCI and Trustworthy AI, and their application in domains such as AI governance and policy-making. In my PhD, my main focus was on designing for appropriate trust in human-AI interaction. To do this, I combined formal and computational social science approaches with human-centered design to develop AI systems.
My research were generously supported by TAILOR Connectivity Fund, Dr. Jost Henkel Stiftung Scholarship from Henkel and Deutschlandstipendium from RWTH Education fund. I have also worked in industry such as at Siemens Research, Mazda, Grohe and as a member of app review board for Microsoft (Student Partner).
I also support young researchers who wish to pursue a PhD in Computer Science. Are you looking here looking for 1-1 guidance on your PhD/PD/Faculty applications in the Netherlands? Sign up a session with me here: https://topmate.io/siddharth_mehrotra/
My research were generously supported by TAILOR Connectivity Fund, Dr. Jost Henkel Stiftung Scholarship from Henkel and Deutschlandstipendium from RWTH Education fund. I have also worked in industry such as at Siemens Research, Mazda, Grohe and as a member of app review board for Microsoft (Student Partner).
I also support young researchers who wish to pursue a PhD in Computer Science. Are you looking here looking for 1-1 guidance on your PhD/PD/Faculty applications in the Netherlands? Sign up a session with me here: https://topmate.io/siddharth_mehrotra/
Publications
Understanding AI Trustworthiness: A Scoping Review of AIES & FAccT Articles
Siddharth Mehrotra, Jin Huang, Xuelong Fu, Roel Dobbe, Clara I. Sánchez, Maarten de Rijke
to appear in Journal of AI Research (JAIR), 2026
India’s AI Governance Landscape: Insights from Elite Stakeholder Interviews
Siddharth Mehrotra, Sarah Hladíková
Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’26), ACM, 2026 Apr
Pascal D. Koenig, Siddharth Mehrotra
International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, Taylor & Francis, 2025, pp. 1--21
Siddharth Mehrotra, Ujwal Gadiraju, Eva Bittner, Folkert van Delden, Catholijn M. Jonker, Myrthe L. Tielman
33rd ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP ’25), ACM, NY, USA, 2025
Practising Appropriate Trust in Human-Centred AI Design
Chadha Degachi, Siddharth Mehrotra, Mireia Yurrita, Evangelos Niforatos, Myrthe Lotte Tielman
CHI EA '24, Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2024
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