About Me

I am Yaman Kumar Singla, a Google Ph.D. fellow in the Department of Computer Science Engineering at the State University of New York at Buffalo. I am graduating in Fall'24 and am open to jobs as a research scientist. 

I have worked in Adobe Research for 6+ years where I study large language and vision models (LLMs, VLMs) from the context of the behavior modality. The behavior modality consists of (at least) five components: (1) Speaker, (2) Content, (3) Channel, (4) Receiver, (5) Behavior (Effect). One can also include other components in these five: (6) Time of sending and (7) Time of receiving.

Therefore, from this point of view, I try to solve the following questions:

• Behavior Simulation: How will a certain audience behave for a certain message sent by a certain sender at a sender time over a certain channel?

• Personalization or Customer Behavior Optimization with Content as a Hook: How should a message be constructed such that it gets a certain behavior from a certain audience?

• Targeting or Audience Optimization: To whom should a message be sent in order to get a certain effect?

• Transsuasion: How to transfer low-performing content to high-performing one for a certain audience and speaker (advertiser/marketer)?

• Speaker Optimization: Who should send a message to get a certain effect? (for example, choose the appropriate influencer account)

• Time Optimization: What time and with what frequency should a message be sent so that it gets a certain effect?

• Ultimately, how much free will is there with humans when making decisions?

• ....

My research is about designing large language and human behavior models that can predict human behavior, generate content that can bring about needed behavior, and explain behavior. This involves explaining, predicting, and optimizing human behavior in the real world, especially from the context of marketing, advertising, and computational social science.

A list of works related to behavior in the wild by me and my team can be found here: http://behavior-in-the-wild.github.io. An explanatory version of the behavior in the wild is given in my (work-in-progress) Ph.D. thesis, and the papers can be found on my scholar profile.

The motivation as to why I work on the behavior modality and why behavior in the wild should be solved at all is covered in this blog.

I have been awarded multiple awards and honors from industry and academia for my contributions.

Feel free to contact me by email if you want to discuss this further: yamankum@buffalo.edu. To get more information, check out the links at the top of the page. 

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