Deeksha is a PhD student at the University of Virginia. She earned her Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science from VNR VJIET in Hyderabad, India, where she graduated first class with distinction. She then worked as a guidewire application developer for two years before continuing to earn her master’s degree in computer science from UVa. Her work focuses on Human–AI trust modeling, exploring Human–AI decision-making frameworks by simulating them in custom environments, health data visualization, and ML modeling in healthcare.
Fun fact: Deeksha is well known within the Lab for her prolific rate of sending Slack messages between the hours of midnight and 5am. 💤
Projects
Human AI Teams
Improving Collaboration Between Humans and AI
Past Projects
Publications
Toward Human-Inspired Collaborative Intelligence for Human-AI Team Decision-Making: A Survey
Elsevier BV
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01 Jan 2026
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10.2139/ssrn.6754660