Varad Vishwarupe is pursuing his doctoral studies under Professors Marina Jirotka and Ivan Flechais in the Human-Centred Computing research group at the Department of Computer Science and the Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford. His research interests lie at the confluence of Explainable Artificial intelligence, Human-Computer Interaction, Machine Learning, Ethical and Human-Centred AI. He hails from India and has published over 20 international research papers, 10+ granted patents and 500+ citations to his name. He is also India's Top 30 under 30 Excellence in Technology Awardee. Varad believes that humans and humanity's needs ought to be put first while developing state-of-the-art AI. He believes in taking an interdisciplinary approach to this, by amalgamating his skills from Artificial Intelligence and Human-Computer Interaction for developing Ethical and Human-Centred AI systems that shall pave the way for a better future for AI research.