Aditya Gulati

Postdoctoral Researcher

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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

2026

01/15
Doh, M., Gulati, A., Canali, C.., & Oliver, N. (2026). Aesthetics as Structural Harm: Algorithmic Lookism Across Text-to-Image Generation and Classification. Preprint.

2025

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

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).
Top 5% of research outputs scored by Altmetric
09/29
Milan, IT
Gulati, A., Lepri, B., & Oliver, N. (2024). Lookism: The overlooked bias in computer vision. Fairness and ethics towards transparent AI: facing the chalLEnge through model Debiasing (FAILED) - Workshop at ECCV 2024.
07/18
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. International Conference on Computational Social Science; International Conference on Thinking.

2023

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

2022

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