Name:Utkarsh Dwivedi

Bio:

I am a Ph.D. student at the School of Information Studies, Univerisity of Maryland, College Park. As a research assistant at the Intelligent Assistive Machines (IAM) lab under the supervision of Dr. Hernisa Kacorri and Dr. Elizabeth Bonsignore, I create accessible technology for teaching machine learning and explainable AI.

Previously, I was a game designer and software engineer at StudyPad (Now SplashLearn) in 2017, designing and developing games for learning math. And before that, I was a Research Scientist at IBM Research Labs, New Delhi, India. Primarily, I worked on the intersection of HCI and ML algorithms. I designed and developed machine learning-based technologies for eye-tracking and collaborated with Sesame street for early childhood learning use cases.

Country:United States

Affiliation:University of Maryland

Research interests:Human Computer Interaction, Applied Machine Learning, Learning Technologies, Accessibility