Dr Yaji Sripada

Dr Yaji Sripada

Senior Lecturer

Email Address: yaji.sripada@abdn.ac.uk
Telephone Number: +44 (0)1224 272597
Office Address: 327 Meston Building
Old Aberdeen Campus
Meston Walk
AB24 3UE
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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 Engineering
1998 - Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India
MTech Computer Science
1991 - Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee
BSc Electrical Engineering
1989 - National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, India

Memberships and Affiliations

Internal Memberships: 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: 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

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

Programmes

BSc Computing Science
Undergraduate, 4 year, September start
BSc Computing Science and Mathematics
Undergraduate, 4 year, September start
BSc Computing Science and Physics
Undergraduate, 4 year, September start
MA Computing
Undergraduate, 4 year, September start
MA Computing and Music
Undergraduate, 4 year, September start
MSci Computing Science with Industrial Placement
Undergraduate, 5 year, September start
MSc Artificial Intelligence
Postgraduate, 3 semester, September start
MSc Artificial Intelligence
Postgraduate, 3 semester, January start
MSc Information Technology
Postgraduate, 3 stage, September start

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Building a Parallel Spatio-Temporal Data-Text Corpus for Summary Generation

Selecting the content of textual descriptions of geographically located events in spatio-temporal weather data

Summarising Complex ICU Data in Natural Language

Using Spatial Reference Frames to Generate Grounded Textual Summaries of Georeferenced Data

Evaluation of on-line bradycardia boundary detectors from neonatal clinical data

Trends in semen parameters in the northeast of Scotland

Atlas.txt: Linking Geo-referenced Data to Text for NLG

Automatic Generation of Textual Summaries from Neonatal Intensive Care Data

Generating spatio-temporal descriptions in pollen forecasts

Evaluating an NLG system using post-editing

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