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Uma Gunturi

I am currently a Machine Learning Engineer at IBM WatsonX Orders (formerly McD Tech Labs) working on a voice-based conversational agent for McD drive-thru in Mountain View, CA. Previously, I earned my Masters in Computer Science from Virginia Tech , where I wrote a thesis on Linguistically Differentiating Acts and Recalls of Racial Microaggressions. I was a part of Dr. Eugenia H. Rho's SAIL Research Lab. I was also a member of the Center for Human-Computer Interaction (CHCI) at VT. I received my Bachelors in Computer Science and Engineering in 2021 at Bennett University, India.

During my undergrad, I was a Research Intern at MIDAS Lab at the Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, New Delhi working under the mentorship of Dr. Debanjan Mahata and Dr. Rajiv Ratn Shah. My research lies on the intersection of Computational Social Science, Natural Language Processing, and Multimodal Deep Learning.

What have I been up to?

• Jan 2024 Paper accepted at ACM CHI 2024!
• Sept 2023 Paper on my thesis work has been accepted at ACM CSCW 2024!
• July 2023 Excited to join IBM Watson Orders (formerly McD Tech Labs) as an ML Engineer in Mountain View, CA!🍟
• April 2023 Received the Paul E. Torgersen Research Excellence Award 2023 for my M.S thesis at Virginia Tech!🏆
• March 2023 Paper accepted at CHI 2023 Workshop on Combating Toxicity, Harassment, and Abuse in Online Social Spaces! [Demo]
• August 2022 Attended the IBM Neuro-Symbolic AI Summer School 2022!
• May 2022 Excited to start my Summer Internship at IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, NY!
• November 2021 Paper accepted at EMNLP 2021! [Data & Models]
• August 2021 Joined Virginia Tech as a graduate student!

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