I am a Ph.D student in Computer Science and Engineering at Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio working under the guidance of Dr. Yong Pei and Dr. Nia S. Peters.

I am inspired by real world problems and driven to provide scalable and sustainable solutions. My approach to research is defined by first principles based thinking, interdisciplinary collaboration, and rigor.

As a bibliophile and music enthusiast I am fascinated by the power of written and spoken word in sparking our imagination and conveying information about the self. As a travel enthusiast I am intrigued by how people use language all over the gloe to collaborate. Hence, my research interests are in the intersection of Computer Supported Cooperative Works (CSCW), Natural Language Processing, Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Human Computer Interaction and Social Psychology. I am currently working on projects that involve developent of real-time, pragmatic information extraction techniques that leverage prosodic(How it is said?) and lexical(What is said?) information from conversations to identify emotions, speaker agreement/disagreement, speaker engagement and task boundaries.

Updates

• August 2020 - In the news - Thank you Wright State University for the spotlight.
• April 2020 - Excited to announce that our paper titled Real-Time Interruption Management System for Eficient Distributed Collaboration in Multi-tasking Environments has been accepted as part of CSCW 2020! Congratulations to my co-authors Aishwarya Bositty, Dr. Nia S. Peters, Dr. Yong Pei.
• I am currently conducting a human subject-based evaluation of our NLP based Motivational Interviewing tool ReadMI (Real-Time Assessment of Dialogue in Motivational Interviewing) in partnership with Wright State School of Medicine, a National Institute of Health funded project.
• December 2019 - our journal article AI - Enabled Language-Speaking Coaching for Dual-Language Learners is published in the IADIS International Journal on WWW/Internet.
• April 2019 - I will be presenting our work on our mobile learning platform iLeap in Utrecht, Netherlands.
• September 2018 - Excited to be a part of the Battlespace Acoustic Branch of the Air Force Research laboratory as a Graduate Research Assistant working on Machine Learning/Deep Learning and NLP research topics.
• September 2018 - We will be conducting a pilot project of our real-time classroom autocaptioning system “AutoCap” in BIO 1180 class.
• September 2018 - In the news - “Pilotless drone for human passengers” project.
• February 2018 - In the news - Declared winners of the Ohio Opioid Technology Challenge.
• May 2017 - Successfully defended my master thesis
• August 2016 - Successfully completed my 8-month internship at BMW Group Technology Office, Mountain View, California working on sustainabile mobility(Electric vehicles) projects like BMW i ChargeForwardand SmartCharging.