Hi there 👋 I'm Chandan, a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research working on interpretable machine learning.
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Interpretable and accurate predictive modeling, sklearn-compatible (JOSS 2021). Contains FIGS (PNAS 2022) and HSTree (ICML 2022)

Interpretability for text. Contains Aug-imodels (Nature Communications 2023) , Tree-Prompt (EMNLP 2023) , iPrompt (ICLR workshop 2023) , SASC (NeurIPS workshop 2023) , and QA-Embs (NeurIPS 2024)

adaptive-wavelets Adaptive, interpretable wavelets (NeurIPS 2021)

Notes and resources on AI

Utilities for trustworthy data-science (JOSS 2021)

deep-explanation-penalization Penalizing neural-network explanations (ICML 2020)

hierarchical-dnn-interpretations Hierarchical interpretations for neural network predictions (ICLR 2019)

transformation-importance Feature importance for transformations (ICLR Workshop 2020)

automated-brain-explanations Building natural-language explanations for the brain. Contains GCT (arxiv 2024)

clinical-rule-development Building and vetting clinical decision rules, including vetting an intraabdominal rule (PLOS DH, 2022), analyzing patient perspectives for approving rules (Nature SR, 2025), or analyzing bias across CDIs (medRxiv, 2025). See also general PECARN data preprocessing (clinical-rule-vetting ) and (clinical-self-verification ). Also working on an LLM/EHR pipeline for this culminating in HACHI, and previously BC-LLM.

covid19-severity-prediction Extensive COVID-19 data + forecasting for counties and hospitals (HDSR 2021)

molecular-partner-prediction Predicting successful CME events using only clathrin markers

gan-vae-pretrained-pytorch Pretrained GANs + VAEs + classifiers for MNIST/CIFAR in pytorch

gpt-paper-title-generator Generating paper titles with GPT-2

disentangled-attribution-curves Attribution curves for interpreting tree ensembles trees (arxiv 2019)

matching-with-gans Matching in GAN latent space for better bias benchmarking. (CVPR workshop 2021)

data-viz-utils Functions for easily making publication-quality figures with matplotlib

mdl-complexity Revisiting complexity and the bias-variance tradeoff (JMLR 2021)

sim-dino Simplifying DINO via coding rate regularization (ICML 2025), led by Ziyang Wu

pasta Post-hoc Attention Steering for LLMs (ICLR 2024), led by Qingru Zhang

meta-tree Learning a Decision Tree Algorithm with Transformers (TMLR 2024), led by Yufan Zhuang

mixture-of-inputs Text Generation Beyond Discrete Token Sampling (NeurIPS 2025), led by Yufan Zhuang

induction-gram Interpretable Language Modeling via Induction-head Ngram Models (NeurIPS 2025), led by Eunji Kim & Sriya Mantena

Major: autogluon , big-bench , nl-augmenter

Minor: conference-acceptance-rates , iterative-random-forest , interpretable-ml-book , awesome-interpretable-machine-learning , awesome-machine-learning-interpretability , awesome-llm-interpretability , executable-books , deep-fMRI-dataset

hummingbird-tracking, imodels-experiments, cookiecutter-ml-research, nano-descriptions, news-title-bias, java-mini-games, imodels-data, news-balancer, arxiv-copier, dnn-experiments, max-activation-interpretation-pytorch, acronym-generator, hpa-interp, sensible-local-interpretations, global-sports-analysis, mouse-brain-decoding, ...