Karthik Vaidhyanathan is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Information Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics (DISIM) - University of L’Aquila (Italy). He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science in 2021, based on his thesis titled “Data-Driven Self-Adaptive Architecting Using Machine Learning”. His research interests mainly lie in the intersection of Software architecture and Machine Learning. In particular, his research focuses on how machine learning techniques can be leveraged to better architect self-adaptive systems and further how to better define architecting practices for developing Machine Learning-based software systems.