Hi there! I’m Hiwot Belay, a Ph.D. student at Harvard’s Data to Actionable Knowledge Lab, advised by Finale Doshi-Velez. My research focuses on Interpretable Machine Learning.
Before starting my Ph.D., I completed my undergraduate studies in Computer Engineering at Benedict College.
Research Interests
- Interpretable Machine Learning
📄 Publications
- Transparent Trade-offs between Properties of Explanations
H Tadesse, A Hüyük, Y Yacoby, W Pan, and F Doshi-Velez
UAI 2025 - Directly Optimizing Explanations
H Tadesse, A Hüyük, Y Yacoby, W Pan, and F Doshi-Velez
ICML Workshop on Humans, Algorithmic Decision-Making and Society: Modeling Interactions and Impact, 2024 - Variational Exploration Module VEM: A Cloud-Native Optimization and Validation Tool for Geospatial Modeling and AI Workflows
Julian Kuehnert, Hiwot Tadesse, Chris Dearden, Rosie Lickorish, Paolo Fraccaro, Anne Jones, Blair Edwards, Sekou L Remy, Peter Melling, Tim Culmer Pre-print, 2023📬 Get in Touch
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