People
Director
Dr. Cecilia (Cissi) Alm's research interests focus on human-sensing AI and ML for text, speech, ASL, and multimodal human dialogue and other interactions, including interactive and continuous resource-efficient machine learning. She is committed to enabling student research training experiences. Cissi is the joint program director for the MS in Artificial Intelligence, an associate director of the Center for Human-aware AI, and PI and director for NSF award NRT-AI: AWARE-AI: AWAREness for Sensing Humans Responsibly with AI, PI for the NSF-funded IRES AI-PROWIL program, and the PI at RIT for a collaborative NSF EAGER award. She previously was PI for the NSF-funded REU Site: Computational Sensing for Human-centered AI, REU Site: Computational Sensing, and subaward PI for NIH-funded Automated Analysis of Pragmatic Development in ASD. Besides her Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign centered on computational linguistics, she also holds a Certificate of Advanced Study in Language and Speech Processing and a Certificate of Graduate Specialization in Computational Science and Engineering from UIUC.
Current Students
Rajesh Titung
Ph.D. Candidate
Computing and Information Sciences
Michael Peechatt
Ph.D. Candidate
Computing and Information Sciences
Cedric Bone
Ph.D. Candidate
Computing and Information Sciences
Sophia Caruana
Ph.D. Candidate
Cognitive Science
Jordan De Pina
BS Candidate
Neuroscience
Isabelle Arthur
BS Candidate
Computer Science
Jordan Quinn
BS Candidate
Computer Science
Shriya Chepur
MS Candidate
Artificial Intelligence
Pavan Bellam
MS Candidate
Artificial Intelligence
Hreem Mahadeshwar
MS Candidate
Experimental Psychology
Prateek Mehta
MS Candidate
Artificial Intelligence
Alumni
- Aniket Patil
MS 2024
Computer Science
SAP - Kaustubh Gaikwad
MS 2024
Computer Science
SAP - Shrinivas (Sam) Muthupalaniyappan
MS 2023
Data Science
LexisNexis - Dade Wood
MS 2023
Computer Science
Sweetener Supply Corporation - Naveen Kudli Balaji
MS 2023
Computer Science - Matt Altobelli
MS 2023
Experimental Psychology
CogBias AI - Rigved Rakshit
MS 2022
Data Science
SLB - Keiki Takagi
BS 2023
3D Architect, Alt - Adhiraj Sood
MS 2022
Computer Science
Microsoft - Alpheus Dmonte
Ph.D. Student
George Mason University - Emmanuel Okafor
MS 2022
Computer Science
Hubspot - Karen Chen
BS 2022
Computer Engineering
AMD - Ekta Akadkar
MS 2021/2022
Computer Science
ServiceNow - Adya Shrivastava
MS 2021
Computer Science
Amazon - Aditya Avinash Landge
MS 2021
Computer Science
Kodak Alaris - Aditi Munjekar
MS 2021
Computer Science
Nordstrom Technologies - Nikhil Kaushik
MS 2021
Computer Science
Interactive Brokers - Matthew Peeks
BS
Computational Mathematics - Rishab Lalwani
MS 2020
Computer Science
Commonwealth Care Alliance - Mitali Unde
MS 2020
Computer Science
Trillion Technology Solutions - Kunjan Mhaske
MS 2020
Computer Science
AthenaHealth - Alexander P. Hedges
BS/MS 2019
Computer Science
USC Information Sciences Institute - Benjamin S. Meyers
Ph.D. 2023
Computing and Information Sciences
Research Computing at RIT - Kate MacLaren
BS 2019
Museum Studies
Gunn Historical Museum - Kruthika P. Simha
MS 2019
Computer Engineering
Apple - Elizabeth Lucas
BS/MS 2019
Computer Science
Liberty Mutual - Jordan Shea
BS 2019
Computer Science
DigitalOcean - Lucas Kessler
BS 2019
Computer Science
Lockheed Martin, Sikorsky - Tong Liu
Ph.D. 2020
Computing and Information Sciences
Appen - Andy Terkik
MS 2016
Computer Science
Knewton - Anil Behera
MS 2016
Computer Science
Apple - Ben Cohen
BS 2015
Computer Science
Kensho - Chandini Ramesh
MS
Computer Science - Dan Lavoie
BS 2015
Software Engineering
AthenaHealth - Doug Dlutz
BS 2016
Computer Science
Microsoft - Douglas Gliner
BS 2018
Game Design and Development
A game development company - Ja'Nai Gray
BS 2017
Criminal Justice and Sociology - Joe Bullard
MS 2015
Computer Science
Cogent Labs - Kathryn Womack
BS 2013
ASL-English Interpreting
Freelance Interpreting - Limor Hochberg
MS 2014
Experimental and Engineering Psychology
UL, LLC - Michael Berezny
BS/MS
Mechanical Engineering - Miguel Dominguez
Ph.D. 2020
Engineering
VisualDx - Nic Schrading
BS/MS 2015
Computer Engineering
Space X - Preethi Vaidyanathan
Ph.D. 2018
Imaging Science
EyeGaze, Inc. (LC Technologies) - Ravdeep Johar
MS 2014
Computer Science
Facebook - Robbie Jimerson
Ph.D. Candidate
Computing and Information Sciences - Suhas Pillai
MS 2017
Computer Science
TeraDeep - Sanket Sheth
MS 2018
Computer Science - Victor Trejo
MS 2016
Computer Science
Ksquire Group - Will Paul
BS 2016
New Media Interactive Development
Constant Contact - Wilson McCoy
BS 2012
Game Design and Development
Pronology