Aditya Gulati

Postdoctoral Researcher *ELLIS Member*

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Aditya Gulati is a Postdoctoral Researcher at ELLIS Alicante. He holds a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Computer Science Engineering from the International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore, and a PhD at ELLIS Alicante supervised by Nuria Oliver (ELLIS Alicante), Miguel Angel Lozano (University of Alicante) and Bruno Lepri (Fondazione Bruno Kessler). His research interests lie in modelling human behaviour and artificial intelligence.

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/adi-gulati/about
Link to ORCID profile: ORCID iD icon https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0356-2987

Publications in association with ELLIS Alicante

2022

09/27
Gulati, A., Lozano, M. A., Lepri, B., & Oliver, N. (2022, September). BIASeD: Bringing Irrationality into Automated System Design. In Thinking Fast and Slow and Other Cognitive Theories in AI, AAAI Fall Symposium 2022.

2023

07/09
Gulati, A., Martinez-Garcia, M., Lozano, M. A., Lepri, B., & Oliver, N. (2023). The Beauty Survey - Study Registration.

2024

07/18
Gulati, A., Martinez-Garcia, M., Fernandez, D., Lozano, MA., Lepri, B., & Oliver, N. (2024, July). What is Beautiful is Still Good: The Attractiveness Halo Effect in the era of Beauty Filters. In International Conference on Computational Social Science; International Conference on Thinking.
09/29
Milan, IT
Gulati, A., Lepri, B., & Oliver, N. (2024, September). Lookism: The overlooked bias in computer vision. In Fairness and ethics towards transparent AI: facing the chalLEnge through model Debiasing (FAILED) - Workshop at ECCV 2024.
11/27
Gulati, A., Martinez-Garcia, M., Fernandez, D., Lozano, MA., Lepri, B., & Oliver, N. (2024). What is beautiful is still good: the attractiveness halo effect in the era of beauty filters. Royal Society Open Science, 11(11).
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2025

02/25
Philadelphia, US
Doh, M., Gulati, A., & Oliver, N. (2025, February). Attractive by Design: How The Attractiveness Halo Effect Shapes AI Perception. In Collaborative AI and modeling of Humans (CAIHu) - Bridge program at AAAI 2025.
06/30
Eindhoven, NL
Doh, M., Gulati, A., Mancas, M., & Oliver, N. (2025, June). When Algorithms Play Favorites: Lookism in the Generation and Perception of Faces. In European Workshop on Algorithmic Fairness.
10/20
Madrid, ES
Gulati, A., D'Incà, M., Sebe, N., Lepri, B., & Oliver, N. (2025, October). Beauty and the Bias: Exploring the Impact of Attractiveness on Multimodal Large Language Models. In Eighth AAAI/ACM Confernece on AI, Ethics and Society (AIES).
12/12
Alicante, ES
Gulati, A. (2025, December). Judging Books by Their Cover: The Impact of Facial Attractiveness on Humans and AI. In PhD Thesis, University of Alicante.
Thesis Defense

2026

01/15
Doh, M., Gulati, A., Canali, C.., & Oliver, N. (2026, January). Aesthetics as Structural Harm: Algorithmic Lookism Across Text-to-Image Generation and Classification. In Preprint.
01/18
Wei, M., Gulati, A., Zhao, G., & Oliver, N. (2026, January). Happy Young Women, Grumpy Old Men? Emotion-Driven Demographic Biases in Synthetic Face Generation. In Preprint.
02/09
Gulati, A., & Oliver, N. (2026, February). Why do we Trust Chatbots? From Normative Principles to Behavioral Drivers. In CHI 2026 workshop on Understanding, Mitigating, and Leveraging Cognitive Biases to Calibrate Trust in Evolving AI Systems.
02/19
Derner, E., Kučera, D., Gulati, A., Bagheri, A., & Oliver, N. (2026, February). Mind the Style: Impact of Communication Style on Human-Chatbot Interaction. In Preprint.