p-Scan: An application for diagnosing Parkinson's disease
Creating a tool that can detect Parkinson's analyzing a persons voice and help them connect their values and individual circumstances with their treatment choice.
A researcher at heart, I'm passionate about bringing transformative technologies to the world. After a foundation in computer science at VIT, I am currently working as a research engineer in Singapore.
Below is a selection of my work in NLP, ML, HRI and healthcare. Some of these have led to publications.
PhonSenticnet: Leveraging phonetics for concept-level sentiment analysis
Coupling sub-symbolic and symbolic AI for weeding the shorthands present in social media text for better sentiment prediction.
Nicole: An Intelligent Psychiatric Training platform for diagnosing Schizophrenia
Using low level speech signals and body movements to provide early diagnosis for Schizophrenia. Also a doctors psychiatric training tool.
Humanoid Co-workers
A prolonged human-robot interaction study. An exciting summer research exploration at Institute for Media Innovation, NTU.
Towards Environment Aware Social Robots using Visual Dialog
Giving social robots the ability to carry out audio visual scene aware dialog with the user, also taking into context the history of the conversation.
Building Nadine: Social Robotics Platform
Building the affective and perception layers of the humanoid to provide a more empathatic & personalized human-robot interaction experience.
Fairness, Accountability and Transparency while treating gender as a variable.
A comprehensive study as to how using gender as a variable in NLP and machine learning tasks can lead to biases and proposing an ethical framework for the same.