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Dr. Nidhi Hegde is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computing Science at the University of Alberta and a Canada CIFAR AI Chair at the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii). Her research focuses on privacy-preserving machine learning, algorithmic fairness, and robust algorithm design for networked systems.
Dr. Hegde's current research investigates differential privacy in bandit algorithms, debiasing frameworks for language models, and long-term fairness guarantees for minority groups. Her work combines theoretical foundations with practical applications in distributed systems and multi-agent learning environments. Recent publications address covariate shift effects in optimization, private matroid optimization, and reinforcement learning with functional noise.
She teaches graduate courses on Responsible AI and Ethical Issues in Data Analytics, covering topics including data privacy, fairness in algorithms, interpretability, and accountability. Dr. Hegde maintains active research collaborations and previously led privacy research at Borealis AI (RBC's research institute).
