Ph.D. Student at Carnegie Mellon University
Greater Los Angeles Area
Ph.D. Student at Carnegie Mellon University
Greater Los Angeles Area
Involved in the development and evaluation of Automated Conversational Agents to support (collaborative) human activities. Specifically interested in discovering methods to support everyday business processes with state of the art language technologies including Conversational Interfaces and Spoken Language Systems.
- Conversational Interfaces for Collaboration
- Intelligent Tutoring Systems
- Spoken Dialog Systems
- Text to Speech Systems including small memory-footprint TTS
- Speech Recognition Systems
- Huge volume Data Collection for Speech Recognition Systems
- Web / Telephone based Speech Interfaces
- Other applications of Language Technologies
(Computer Software industry)
August 2008 — Present (5 months)
As a member of the scientific team, i work directly with the company's Chief Scientist.
My current responsibilities are development of advanced Natural Language Processing technology both for streamlining internal processes and improving end product.
(Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Research industry)
July 2005 — Present (3 years 6 months)
- Development & Evaluation of Conversational Agents
-- My research focuses on conversational strategies motivated by social processes that can mediate cognitive effects
-- Specifically i work on collaborative learning environments and study the use of conversational agents to support learners
- Besides my primary research focus, i also help other members of my research group with my experience in speech recognition, speech synthesis, spoken dialog system and other forms of language technologies that i have prior experience with
(Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Research industry)
July 2003 — May 2005 (1 year 11 months)
- At IIIT Hyderabad, i was part of the Language Technologies Research Center and worked as a member of Speech Technology Group.
-- My role was to contribute in Development of Spoken Language Systems including TTS and ASR for Indian Languages. Some of my specific work includes
-- Development of a small footprint Text to Speech System for Simputer (a handheld device)
--- Development of several applications of TTS for desktop, handheld and web based platforms
--- Development of a telephonic data collection system for collecting spoken language data for three indian languages
Ph.D., Language Technologies, 2007 — 2011 (expected)
Masters in Language Technology, Conversational Interfaces, 2005 — 2007
- Authored 1 journal article, 5 conference papers and 3 workshop papers
B.E., Computer Science & Engg., 1999 — 2003
- Graduated with Honors
- Awarded the Silver Medal for Best Final Year Project
- Authored 1 journal article and 3 conference papers
- Indian Graduate Student Association,
- Language Technologies Institute,
- IEEE Computer Society,
- Ryze, Hyderabad Network
- IEEE Computer Society Richard E Merwin Student Scholarship 2003 for active leadership