PhD Candidate in Computer Science

Research Interests: Human-Data Interaction and Human-Centered AI

Research Lab@Institution: Accessible Computing Lab @ Old Dominion University

Advisor: Dr. Vikas G Ashok

Contact: yprak001@odu.edu | 757-994-3873

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ABOUT ME
Hey there! I’m a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Computer Science at Old Dominion University, where I’ve been actively conducting research since Fall 2021. I am part of the Accessible Computing Lab, working under the guidance of Dr. Vikas Ashok. My research centers on Human-Data Interaction (HDI), a field closely related to Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) that examines how individuals engage with and interpret data. A significant focus of my work is understanding how individuals, particularly those with disabilities, interact with data-driven interfaces and computational systems. Driven by this goal, I design and develop AI-powered assistive technologies to enhance accessibility, ensuring that digital content and data are more inclusive and user-friendly for everyone.
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REVIEWING HISTORY

CHI 2025 Case Studies
IMX 2024 Technical Papers
IUI 2025 Papers
IUI 2024 Posters and Demos
CUI 2024 Papers
UbiComp/ISWC 2024 Posters and Demos
CHI 2024 Case Studies
NeurIPS Ethics Reviewer 2024
ICMI 2024 Long and Short Papers
IUI 2023 Posters and Demos
IDC 2024 Work-In-Progress
NeurIPS Ethics Reviewer 2023
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
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Data Structures and Algorithms

Instructor. Dr. Morris

Course No: 361

Course Details:

Title: Data Structures and Algorithms

Credit Hours: 3

Start Date: 08/24/2024

END Date: 12/06/2024

Description: This course covers the following topics: (i) Basic introduction to algorithms, their design and analysis (ii) Asymptotic notation (iii) Recurrence Relations and their solutions (iv) Sorting and Order Statistics: various algorithms for sorting and their analysis, lower bounds for sorting, computing medians, modes and various order statistics (v) Paradigms for algorithm design and analysis: Dynamic Programming, Greedy Method, Amortized Analysis, and (vi) Graphs and Elementary Graph Algorithms: Breadth-first and Depth-first Search, Topological Sort, Minimum Spanning Trees and Shortest Paths Algorithms

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Machine Learning

Instructor: Dr. Sun

Course No: 722/822

Course Details:

Title: Machine Learning

Credit Hours: 3

Start Date: 08/24/2024

END Date: 12/06/2024

Description: This course presents both the foundational and the practical aspects of modeling, analyzing, and mining of computerized data sets, including classification, regression, clustering, semi-supervised learning, structured sparsity learning, etc. The course assignments are designed to contain both theoretical and programming components in order to train students to gain hands-on-experience.

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Introduction to AI

Instructor: Dr. Yaohang Li

Course No: 480/580

Course Details:

Title: Introduction to AI

Credit Hours: 3

Start Date: 08/24/2024

END Date: 12/06/2024

Description: Laboratory work required. Introduction to concepts, principles, challenges, and research in major areas of AI. Areas of discussion include: natural language and vision processing, machine learning, machine logic and reasoning, robotics, expert and mundane systems.

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Natural Language Processing

Instructor: Dr. Vikas

Course No: 733/833

Course Details:

Title: Data Structures and Algorithms

Credit Hours: 3

Start Date: 08/24/2024

END Date: 12/06/2024

Description: Natural language processing (NLP) techniques are the crux of many leading modern technologies. Advances in NLP are also critical in the pursuit of Artificial Intelligence. This course will discuss core problems in NLP and the state-of-the-art tools and techniques as well as advanced NLP research topics. The topics will include language models, part-of-speech tagging, syntactic parsing, word embedding, statistical machine translation, text summarization, question answering, and dialog interaction. At the end of the course, students will be familiar with many language-processing tasks and applications.

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