Sushma Anand Akoju
PhD Student
Office: GS 710
Interests: Knowledge representation and reasoning, Neuro-symbolic approaches, Information extraction, Question & Answer System, Rule based systems, Automated theorem proving, ML-based Theorem Proving, Logic based systems, Bayesian learning, Uncertainity
Advisor: Dr. Mihai Surdeanu
Biography
I am from India, I have been in the USA for a while. I worked in University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University as a Research Programmer towards AI applications.
Research Interests
I am interested to work on reasoning and natural logic.
What long-term project do you want to work on?
I want to work on neural networks as to how to teach them to learn to reason and possibly to explain at the same time within a Language Understanding domain.
What do you enjoy most about your work?
To learn.
What are your career goals?
I want to continue research work on my research interests and possibly also teach students in the University.
Tell us something interesting about yourself!
I like discussing about research works, concepts in depth. My hobbies are reading books and journals, listening to podcasts, reading research works.