Dr. Pradhan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer & Information Technology at Â鶹¾«Æ· in West Lafayette, Indiana. Her  research interests are in the areas of data management and data science. Her research is driven by the need to build trustworthy and responsible decision-making systems. More recently, Dr. Pradhan has been building systems that facilitate explainability, fairness, and accountability of data-driven decision-making systems.

Before joining Purdue CIT, Dr. Pradhan held a Postdoctoral Researcher position in the HalıcıoÄŸlu Data Science Institute at the University of California San Diego, and was a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Â鶹¾«Æ·. She has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Â鶹¾«Æ·, and a B.S. and M.S. in Mathematics and Computing from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, India.