Karthik Vaidhyanathan is an Assistant Professor at the Software Engineering Research Center, IIIT-Hyderabad, India, where he is also associated with the leadership team of the smart city living lab. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy and did his postdoc at the University of L’Aquila, Italy. His main research interests lie in the intersection of software architecture and Artificial Intelligence (AI), with a specific focus on building sustainable software systems. His research focuses on how AI techniques can be leveraged to better architect self-adaptive systems and further how to better define architecting practices for developing AI-enabled systems. As part of his research activities, he serves as a reviewer/organising committee member in various workshops, conferences, and journals. He is also an editorial board member (SE Radio) of IEEE Software. Karthik also brings in more than 5 years of industrial experience as an employee and as a consultant in building and deploying ML products/services.