About Me
Hi! I am Akriti, a first-year PhD student in the Computer Science Department at the University of Colorado Boulder, where I am advised by Dr. Maria Antoniak and Dr. Alexis Palmer. I conduct research as part of the Culture, Language and Systems Lab and the Low-Resource and Endangered Languages and Computational Semantics group. Before joining CU Boulder, I completed my Master’s in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, where I was advised by Dr. David Chiang. As a part of the NLP Lab at Notre Dame, I worked on Automated Speech Recognition for low-resource Indic dialects and language varieties with Dr Chiang and Aarohi Srivastava.
My current research interests lie in cultural analytics, AI-assisted fiction writing, low-resource NLP and automated speech recognition. Broadly, my research interests are as follows:
- Cultural Analytics & Narrative Understanding: Advancing computational tools for improving narrative understanding and cultural analytics for texts written in low-resource languages.
- Low Resource NLP: Improving the scope, accessibility, and quality of various NLP and ASR tools for low-resource linguistic communities.
- AI Assisted Fiction Writing: Developing tools for writers who work in multilingual and multimodal creative spaces.
Recent News
- Will be attending Text As Data (TADA) at UC Berkeley!
- Recieved the Awtar and Teji Singh Fellowship!
- Started as a PhD student at CU Boulder in the CLS and LECS lab!
- Graduated with my Master's in Computer Science and Engineering!
- Presented our paper, “Dialect Matters: Cross-Lingual ASR Transfer for Low-Resource Indic Language Varieties”, virtually at VarDial 2026.