Navigating the Landscape of Empathetic Dialogue Systems: Current Innovations and Future Developments

Schedule: December 17, 2023 (10 AM - 1 PM)

Presenters

Priyanshu Priya

Ph.D Scholar Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India

Mauajama Firdaus

PostDoctoral Researcher University of Alberta, Canada

Gopendra Vikram Singh

Ph.D Scholar Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India

Dr. Asif Ekbal

Associate Professor Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India Webpage Google Scholar DBLP

Priyanshu Priya

Ph.D Scholar

Priyanshu Priya is a Ph.D. Scholar at the AI-NLP-ML Lab, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Patna, India. Her research interests include Natural Language Processing with a primary focus on modeling politeness in conversational systems. She has received the prestigious Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research (INSPIRE) Fellowship from the Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India for pursuing Ph.D at IIT Patna.

Mauajama Firdaus

PostDoctoral Researcher

Mauajama Firdaus is a PostDoc researcher in the Department of Computer Science in University of Alberta, Canada. She completed her PhD from Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India. in 2021. Her main area of research is Natural Language Processing and Dialogue Generation. She has published papers in various peer-reviewed conferences and journals of international repute.

Gopendra Vikram Singh

Ph.D Scholar

Gopendra Vikram Singh is currently a Research Scholar with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Patna, India. His research interests include natural language processing, with an emphasis on emotion recognition and sentiment analysis in conversations.

Dr. Asif Ekbal

Associate Professor

Dr. Asif Ekbal is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Patna. His research interest include Natural Language Processing, Information Extraction, Text Mining and Machine Learning applications. He is an awardee of the Best Innovative Project award from the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), Visvesvaraya Young Faculty Research (YFRF) Award from the Govt. of India and JSPS Invitation Fellowship from the Govt. of Japan.

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