I study language, culture and cognitive constructs to enable inclusive and accessible health applications. My ongoing research projects focuses on these two questions:
AI for Well being: Can we predict health behaviors from one’s language? Do linguistic expressions indicating health behaviors vary across demographics? - I study these questions to learn what influences health behaviors, how can we persuade people for healthy behaviors and how language models can help this goal.
Socio-cultural Alignment of Language Models: Language models lack the understanding of cultural variations. How do we assess cultural hetereogeniety of language models? And, how can we teach socio-cultural norms to language models to enable culturally aligned interactions?
Mentoring
Proud to work with these amazing folks!
- Ajinkya Bhalerao, Mahindra University
- Kanjarla Vivek, Mahindra University
- Muvvala N V Sai Gurudeep, Mahindra University
- Sai Anish Sreeramagiri, Mahindra University
- Devireddy Maneesh Reddy, Mahindra University
- Lagishetty Rithwik, Mahindra University
- Pranav Kumar Reddy Teepireddy, Mahindra University
- Sree Deepya Bondalapati, Mahindra University
- Rohan Joseph (MU) -> Telestra
- Neha Bogireddy Reddy (MU) -> George Mason University
- Smriti Suresh (MU) -> Boston University
- Sakshi Reddy Methukpally (MU) -> University of Virginia
- Polamraju Sai Srimeghana (MU)
- Vinuthna Ghattamaneni (MU) -> University of Houston-Clearlake
- Manoj Kumar Gunturu (MU) -> University of Central Florida
- Karella Abhinava Chandrahasa (MU)
- Prakruti Singh Thakur (MU) -> Arizona State University
- Mohammed Abdul Khaliq (MU) -> University of Stuttgart
- Heamesh Nettam Choudhary (MU) -> Lynk Global
- Pavan Mallina (MU) -> Arizona State University
- Kamakshi Moparthi (MU) -> Amazon India -> Dartmouth College
- Manikumar Perla -> Amazon, Japan
- Venkata Sai Hitesh Jonalagadda (MU) -> Oisix ra daichi, Japan
- Uma Maheshwari Gollapudi (MU) -> Indiana University -> Oracle
- Apaar Garg (NSUT) -> Google
- Ayush Garg (NSUT) -> Amazon
- Yash Kukreti (NSUT) -> Amazon