About me

Hi there! I am a third year PhD student of computer science at Virginia Tech, where I am conducting research on Emergent Communication (modelling AI agents to invent a language for task completion) under the supervision of Dr. Ismini Lourentzou. I am also a member of the Sanghani Center for Artificial Intelligence & Data Analytics. In the course of my Phd I have been able to work on an Information Retrieval project that supports large scale documents access and retrieval. This enabled me to learn and use fast scale document access tools like Elastic Search and allowed me to take a deep dive into utilizing NLP techniques.

Proir to VT, I have had my Masters in predictive analytics from Austin Peay State University, APSU. My masters program has allowed me to work on different Data science projects ranging from Data visualization, Experimental designs and Machine Learning.

Research

My research interest spans the areas of Machine Learning, Natural Language Prcessing, Information Retrieval, Reinforcement Learning and Emergent Communication. I have a flair for art and I am fascinated about language (written and spoken). In my research I am modelling AI agents to communicate in order to achieve a task. This line of research is important if we want to achieve true and seemless human-computer interaction in the future. My research also has applications in many fields, from Task Assistants, to Robotics to Medical domain and Education. It is also tangentially important in the metaverse!

I have an amazing advisor Dr. Lourentzou. who has expertise in the field of ML, NLP, Reinforcement Learning and Artificial Intelligence.