I mentor graduate students on research and applied computing projects in artificial intelligence, natural language processing, machine learning, deep learning, software engineering, and educational technologies. My mentoring emphasizes technically sound project design, clear documentation, careful evaluation, and effective research communication.
Student Mentoring and Committee Roles
Yeswanth Soma (CSUDH) — Master’s project supervisor and committee chair; project related to traditional NMT and LLM-based approaches for low-resource MT.
Sumaiya Ibrahim Shaikh (CSUDH) — Master’s project supervisor and committee chair; project related to generative AI for personalized financial product recommendation.
Bibek Poudel (CSUDH) — Master’s project supervisor and committee chair; project related to an AI-powered business management platform.
Sonali Rangampally (CSUDH), Mallikarjuna Yeruku (CSUDH), Akhil Padma (CSUDH), and Samarasimha Reddy Donthireddy (CSUDH) — Master’s project committee member.
Kimaya Tandon (CMC) — Faculty reader for internship supervision.
Representative Project Areas
Large language models and education
Neural machine translation and low-resource languages
Generative AI applications
AI-assisted software engineering
Machine learning and deep learning systems
Natural language processing applications
Student-centered capstone and research projects