Kuheli Sai

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Welcome to my website! My name is Kuheli Sai. I am an interdisciplinary researcher, and my research is in the domain of Data Science for Societal Good.
I am especially interested to tackle societal, environmental, public sector, and technological problems that simultaneously help make progress towards achieving United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs).
My goal is to create a secure, sustainable, faster, fair, equitable, people-centric network-enabled technologies (e.g., Internet), applications and accompanied platforms for all and reach towards a better digital society and future. Alongside, leveraging this developed socio-technical systems, my research promotes societal well-being, positive health benefits and inclusion.
My ongoing Ph.D. thesis contributes to the domain of Internet Equity, Digital Sovereignty, and on Sustainability. In past, I have also developed an algorithm for adopting game theoretic approach for developing smart-contract based policy towards securing interoperable Blockchain network. I use concepts from data science, machine learning, natural language processing and primarily adopts empirical methods that specifically aims to solve social good problems. My research simultaneously has implications to contribute towards policy development (including Public Policy).

Collaboration: I am always looking for interesting research problems to work on. If you think I can contribute solving one, please feel free to reach out.

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Exciting Updates!

[Jun. 2025] Registered Report of the Pilot Study of a Multi-Institution Collaborative Group Paper is under review at Nature!

[May 2025] Invited Research Collaborator on using NLP for Healthcare Benefits, Social Media Research

[May 2025] Talk in a Group Presentation in the Summer Institute of Computational Social Science (SICSS) at the Carnegie Mellon University

[May 2025] Program Committee Member - The 8th AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES) 2025

[May 2025] Expert Participant/Collaborator on Global UN Collaboration initiatives (coordinated by ITU) on Policy guidance for enhancing Sustainability and Digital Transformation

[Apr. 2025] Recipient of Catherine Ofiesh and Gerald Orner Award at the University of Pittsburgh

[Mar. 2025] Upcoming invited talk on April 10, 2025, at the Ph.D. lunch talk series of SCI Doctoral Guild, University of Pittsburgh

[Mar. 2025] Selected to participate in Pennsylvania Robotics and Technology Fellowship (PA-RTF), an experiential learning opportunity, organized by the University of Pittsburgh

[Mar. 2025] Student Honoree in the 2025 Graduate and Professional Student Honors Convocation at the University of Pittsburgh (to be held in Apr. 10, 2025)

[Mar. 2025] I will present my research as a poster in the 2025 Data Science Day - a collaborative event co-sponsored by the Office of the Provost - Responsible Data Science and School of Computing and Information, organized by the University of Pittsburgh

[Mar. 2025] I will participate in Summer Institute of Computational Social Science (SICSS) at CMU

[Jan. 2025] I am part of a large-scale global academic collaboration and research projects on Computational Social Science spanning multiple academic institutions all over the world . . . . . I will include all the details soon, stay tuned!

[Jan. 2025] I am part of the IJCAI-2025 Program Committee (main track + survey track)

[Dec. 2024] Awarded Provost's Dissertation Completion Fellowship from University of Pittsburgh

[Oct. 2024] 4 research papers on Data Science for Societal Good theme got accepted + gave 6 research talks

[Jul. 2024] Passed my Ph.D. Dissertation Proposal exam and advanced to Ph.D. Candidacy . . . . one step closer to complete my Ph.D.

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