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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Artificial Intelligence

Programmes

Courses

Method and apparatus for expressing time in an output text

Error Analysis of ToTTo Table-to-Text Neural NLG Models

An approach to improve asset maintenance and management priorities using machine learning techniques

Auto-generating textual data stories using data science pipelines

Are contrastive explanations useful?

Studying the Impact of Filling Information Gaps on the Output Quality of Neural Data-to-Text

Method and apparatus for motion detection

On the merits and pitfalls of introducing a digital platform to aid conservation management: Volunteer data submission and the mediating role of volunteer coordinators

TravelBot: Utilising social media dialogue to provide journey disruption alerts

Towards more effective online environmental information provision through tailored Natural Language Generation: Profiles of Scottish river user groups and an evaluative online experiment

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