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I’m Karan Taneja, a Computer Science Ph.D. Candidate at Georgia Institute of Technology. My advisor is Prof. Ashok Goel, director of Design & Intelligence Lab and AI-ALOE Institute. I create, deploy, and test conversational AI tools for education. I’m expecting to graduate in May 2026 and I’m actively seeking job opportunities in the space of AI research, product design, and human-computer interaction. I’m also interested in startups, so reach out to me if you want to work together to build something crazy, or built something where I can contribute.
Before Georgia Tech, I graduated from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in July 2020 with Bachelors and Masters in Electrical Engineering. I specialized in Signal Processing for my masters and also did a minor in Computer Science and Engineering.
Updates
- May 2025: My collaborator Anjali Singh presented our work ‘Protecting Human Cognition in the Age of AI’ at the Tools for Thought Workshop at CHI 2025 in Yokohama, Japan.
- May 2025: I will be presenting our work ‘Towards a Multimodal Document-grounded Conversational AI System for Education’ at the 26th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2025) in Palermo, Italy.
- April 2025: I passed my PhD Proposal exam on 16th April, 2025! My thesis title is “Conversational AI for Education: Design, Evaluation, and Continual Improvement”. Expecting to graduate in May 2026.
- March 2025: I presented our work ‘MuDoC: An Interactive Multimodal Document-grounded Conversational AI System’ at the Machine Learning and Knowledge Engineering for Trustworthy Multimodal and Generative AI (AAAI-MAKE 2025) in San Francisco, California, US.
- November 2024: I presented our work ‘Can Active Label Correction Improve LLM-based Modular AI Systems?’ at the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing in Miami, Florida, US.
- July 2024: I presented our work ‘Does Jill Watson Increase Teaching Presence?’ at the 2024 ACM Learning at Scale Conference in Atlanta, Georgia, US.
- July 2024: I presented our work ‘Jill Watson: A Virtual Teaching Assistant powered by ChatGPT’ at the 25th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2024) in Recife, Brazil.