Senior Lecturer
- About
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- Email Address
- yaji.sripada@abdn.ac.uk
- Telephone Number
- +44 (0)1224 272597
- Office Address
- School/Department
- School of Natural and Computing Sciences
Biography
I am a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computing Science. I joined the department as a PDRA (Post-Doctoral Research Associate) in 2000. I was promoted to Lecturer in 2003. Before joining the university, I worked as a Research Scientist for Tata Consultancy Services, India, after completing my PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India, in 1998.
Qualifications
- PhD Computer Science and Engineering1998 - Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India
- MTech Computer Science1991 - Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee
- BSc Electrical Engineering1989 - National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, India
Memberships and Affiliations
- Internal Memberships
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Current:
Enterprise and Innovation Champion for the School of Natural and Computing Sciences
Industrial Placements Coordinator for Computing Science
Previous:
Interim Head of Computing Science
Director of Undergraduate Pathways in Computing Science
Outreach Director for Computing Science
- External Memberships
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Member of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Peer Review College since 2016.
Reviewer for the European Research Council (ERC) since 2021.
- Research
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Research Overview
My research focuses on supporting two-way communication between humans and machines in the context of automating machine learning (ML)/data science life cycle tasks such as data engineering and reporting to stakeholders about fitted models and their fairness, accountability, and transparency (FAT). My research brings together ML/data science, knowledge-based programming, natural language technology and information visualization (InfoVis). I am an inventor on several US patents related to natural language-based AI technology. I am one of the founders of Arria (www.arria.com), a company specializing in data-to-text (D2T) natural language generation (NLG).
- Teaching
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Programmes
- Undergraduate, 4 year, September start
- Undergraduate, 4 year, September start
- Undergraduate, 4 year, September start
- Undergraduate, 4 year, September start
- Undergraduate, 4 year, September start
- Undergraduate, 5 year, September start
- Postgraduate, 3 semester, September start
- Postgraduate, 3 semester, January start
- Postgraduate, 3 stage, September start
- Publications
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Input Matters: Evaluating Input Structure's Impact on LLM Summaries of Sports Play-by-Play
Contributions to Conferences: PapersIntegrating Sensemaking in a Question-Driven Development Framework for Textual Narrative Reporting Applications
Contributions to Conferences: PapersStereotypical Bias Amplification, and Reversal, in an Experimental Model of Human Interaction with Generative AI
Royal Society Open Science, 241472Contributions to Journals: ArticlesResponse to UKIPO Consultation on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence
University of Aberdeen: School of Law. 11 pages.Other Contributions: Other ContributionsTowards LLM-driven Automated Verification of Best Practices in Digital Public Infrastructures
Contributions to Journals: Conference ArticlesImproving Factual Accuracy of Neural Table-to-Text Output by Addressing Input Problems in ToTTo
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsSystems, computer-implemented methods, and computer program products for data sequence validity processing
Patents: PatentsConsultation Response to the UK Government’s Policy Proposals on AI Regulation: A Pro-Innovation Approach
University of Aberdeen: School of Law. 20 pages.Other Contributions: Other ContributionsMethod and apparatus for expressing time in an output text
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Error Analysis of ToTTo Table-to-Text Neural NLG Models
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsAn approach to improve asset maintenance and management priorities using machine learning techniques
Safety and Reliability, vol. 41, no. 3, pp. 151-169Contributions to Journals: ArticlesAuto-generating textual data stories using data science pipelines
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3508546.3508642
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Are contrastive explanations useful?
Contributions to Conferences: PapersStudying the Impact of Filling Information Gaps on the Output Quality of Neural Data-to-Text
Contributions to Conferences: PapersMethod and apparatus for motion detection
Patents: PatentsOn the merits and pitfalls of introducing a digital platform to aid conservation management: Volunteer data submission and the mediating role of volunteer coordinators
Journal of Environmental Management, vol. 265, 110497Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.110497
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TravelBot: Utilising social media dialogue to provide journey disruption alerts
Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, vol. 3, 100062Contributions to Journals: ArticlesTowards more effective online environmental information provision through tailored Natural Language Generation: Profiles of Scottish river user groups and an evaluative online experiment
Science of the Total Environment, vol. 673, pp. 643-655Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.03.440
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Towards making NLG a voice for interpretable Machine Learning
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsMethod and apparatus for motion description
Patents: PatentsBuild an app and they will come? Lessons learnt from trialling the GetThereBus app in rural communities
IET Intelligent Transport Systems, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 194-201Contributions to Journals: ArticlesData quality in reasoning
Contributions to Journals: Conference ArticlesComprehension Driven Document Planning in Natural Language Generation Systems
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsTextually Summarising Incomplete Data
Contributions to Conferences: PapersPersuasive Strategies for Encouraging Social Interaction for Older Adults
International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, vol. 32, no. 3, pp. 190-214Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10447318.2016.1136176
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