AI for Society Group

Graduate Students

Kausik Lakkaraju, University of South Carolina (2020 Oct - ): Multi-modal decision support, causal reasoning, collaborative assistants
Vishal Pallagani, University of South Carolina (2021 Jan - ): Neuro-symbolic methods, planning, collaborative assistants [Jointly with Prof. A. Sheth]
Bharath Chandra Muppasani, University of South Carolina (2022 Jan - ): Information spread, time series, planning, ontology [Jointly with Prof. M. Huhns and V. Narayanan]
Siva Likitha Valluru, University of South Carolina (2022 Aug - ): Team recommendation and trusted AI
Rushil Thareja, University of South Carolina (2024 Jan - ): Chatbots, recommendation and trusted AI

Sara Rae Jones, University of South Carolina (2023 May - ): Information spread, trusted AI

Vansh Nagpal, University of South Carolina (2024 Jan - ): Data-based decisions, trusted AI

Tarmo Koppel, Fulbright Scholar, University of South Carolina (2021 Jan - Aug): AI and business [Jointly with Prof. A. Sheth]. Now at Tallinn University, Estonia.

Sai Teja Palladi, University of South Carolina (2021 Aug - 2023 May): Systems simulation and team recommendation (non-thesis). Completed Masters.
Shuge Lei, University of South Carolina (2022 Jan - 2023 Jan): AI and Randomized Control Trial. Completed Masters.
Rohit Sharma, University of South Carolina (2022 May - 2022 Jul): Team recommendation and web applications. Summer Internship. Now at Ecsite, Santa Clara, CA.
Marilyn Gartley, University of South Carolina (Feb 2021 - May 2022): Text and regulations, environment law (thesis student). Completed Independent Study.
Avineet Singh, University of South Carolina (2021 - May 2022): Text and regulations analysis. Completed Independent Study. Now at Ecsite, Greeneville, SC.
Kunal Dhavale, University of South Carolina (2021 ): Unstructured question answer, natural language querying. Completed Independent Study.

Peyton Tucker, University of South Carolina, (2022 May - 2022 Aug), Ontology [Jointly with Prof. Vignesh Narayanan and Prof. Mike Huhns, University of South Carolina]
Claude Reid, University of South Carolina, (2022 May - 2022 Aug), Image Detection, Machine learning [McNair Fellow]
Owen Bond, University of South Carolina (Summer 2022): Text extraction and parsing

Aniket Gupta, Netaji Subhas University of Technology, Delhi, India, (2022 Apr - May 2023): Text analysis, language models,
Chaitanya Pandey, Bharati Vidyapeeth College of Engineering, Delhi, India (2022 Apr - May 2023): Text analysis, summarization
Priyanshi Gupta, Bharati Vidyapeeth College of Engineering, Delhi, India (2021 Nov - May 2023): Text analysis, SQL
Akshay Gupta, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India (2020 Apr - 2022 May): Image analysis, explanations
Karan Aggarwal, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (2020 Dec - Aug 2021): Text analysis, visualization
Ridam Hazra (NIT, Durgapur): Chatbots (2021 May - 2021 Aug) [Jointly with Prof. Sandeep Kumar, IIT Roorkee]
Prasath Murugesan (PSG College of Tech., Coimbatore) (2021 May - 2021 Dec) [Jointly with Dr. Keerthiram Murugesan, IBM Research]
Gaurav Mundada (IIIT, Naya Raipur): Visualization of Trust Ratings (2021 May - 2021 Aug)
Sparsh Agrawal, (IIIT, Naya Raipur): Chatbots (2021 May - 2021 Aug)
Sparsh Johri (Evergreen Valley High School, San Jose - CA): NLP and Regulations (2021 May - 2021 Aug) [Jointly with Natwar Modani, Adobe Research]

Behzad Ghazanfari, University of South Carolina (2021 June - 2022 Jan): Deep learning [Jointly with Prof. A. Sheth]

Austin Hetherington, University of South Carolina (2021 June - 2021 Sep): Recommender systems, Edge AI

Ronak Shah, University of South Carolina (2020 Nov - 2021 Nov): Unsupervised machine translation for low-resource languages

Hem Chandra Joshi, IIT Roorkee (2021 Dec - 2022 Oct): Multi-modal trust, decision support [Jointly with Prof. Sandeep Kumar]