Dr Yaji Sripada

Dr Yaji Sripada

Senior Lecturer

Email Address: yaji.sripada@abdn.ac.uk
Telephone Number: +44 (0)1224 272597
Office Address: 327 Meston Building
Old Aberdeen Campus
Meston Walk
AB24 3UE
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School/Department: School of Natural and Computing Sciences

Biography

I am a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computing Science. I joined the department as a PDRA (Post-Doctoral Research Associate) in 2000. I was promoted to Lecturer in 2003. Before joining the university, I worked as a Research Scientist for Tata Consultancy Services, India, after completing my PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India, in 1998.

Qualifications

PhD Computer Science and Engineering
1998 - Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India
MTech Computer Science
1991 - Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee
BSc Electrical Engineering
1989 - National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, India

Memberships and Affiliations

Internal Memberships: Current:

Enterprise and Innovation Champion for the School of Natural and Computing Sciences

Industrial Placements Coordinator for Computing Science

Previous:

Interim Head of Computing Science

Director of Undergraduate Pathways in Computing Science

Outreach Director for Computing Science
External Memberships: Member of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Peer Review College since 2016.

Reviewer for the European Research Council (ERC) since 2021.

Research

Research Overview

Sitting at the intersection of human-centred AI and automated data science, my research seeks to facilitate two-way communication between users and machines across the ML/data science life cycle. I develop frameworks that incorporate human expertise into automated pipelines, keeping users informed about a model's fairness, ethics, accountability, and transparency (FEAT). This work integrates ML/data science, knowledge-based programming, natural language processing (NLP), and information visualisation (InfoVis). I am an inventor on several US patents related to natural language-based AI technology. I am one of the founders of Arria (), a company specialising in data-to-text (D2T) natural language generation (NLG).

Research Areas

Artificial Intelligence

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Teaching

Programmes

BSc Computing Science
Undergraduate, 4 year, September start
BSc Computing Science and Mathematics
Undergraduate, 4 year, September start
BSc Computing Science and Physics
Undergraduate, 4 year, September start
MA Computing
Undergraduate, 4 year, September start
MA Computing and Music
Undergraduate, 4 year, September start
MSci Computing Science with Industrial Placement
Undergraduate, 5 year, September start
MSc Artificial Intelligence
Postgraduate, 3 semester, September start
MSc Artificial Intelligence
Postgraduate, 3 stage, January start
MSc Information Technology
Postgraduate, 3 stage, September start

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Research Areas

Artificial Intelligence

Programmes

Courses

Towards making NLG a voice for interpretable Machine Learning

Method and apparatus for motion description

Build an app and they will come? Lessons learnt from trialling the GetThereBus app in rural communities

Data quality in reasoning

Comprehension Driven Document Planning in Natural Language Generation Systems

Textually Summarising Incomplete Data

Persuasive Strategies for Encouraging Social Interaction for Older Adults

Exploring the rural passenger experience, information needs and decision making during public transport disruption

Environmental communication in the Information Age: Institutional barriers and opportunities in the provision of river data to the general public

Absolute and Relative Properties in Geographic Referring Expressions

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