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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’m interested in creating AI tools for education using Natural Language Processing and Knowledge-based Intelligent systems.
I graduated from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in July 2020 with Bachelor and Master in Electrical Engineering. My specialization was Signal Processing and Communication and I also did a minor in Computer Science and Engineering.
Updates
- March 2025: I will be presenting our work ‘MuDoC: An Interactive Multimodal Document-grounded Conversational AI System’ at Machine Learning and Knowledge Engineering for Trustworthy Multimodal and Generative AI (AAAI-MAKE 2025) in San Francisco, California, US.
- February 2025: I will be defending my PhD proposal on 16th April, 2025. My thesis title is “Conversational AI for Education: Design, Evaluation, and Continual Improvement”. Please reach out to me for details if you wish attend my proposal talk.
- Semptember 2024: I will be presenting 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.
- May 2024: I will be presenting our work ‘Does Jill Watson Increase Teaching Presence?’ at the 2024 ACM Learning at Scale Conference in Atlanta, Georgia, US.
- April 2024: I will be presenting 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.