In My Undergraduate Days:
Fall 2024: SI 301 -- Models of Social Information Processing (Network Science and Intro Game Theory)
Winter 2025: SI 339 -- Web Design, Development, and Accessibility
Other Cool Things I Teach/Run:
Indian Classical Music: Vocals (Since forever - Present)
Knowledge Cafe @Verizon: Weekly AI seminars with hands-on demos for people interested in growing and sharing their work
Broadly, I conduct research in the areas of natural language
processing, human-ai collaboration, and some computational social science. The best way to define my work, as quoted by Hua Shen, is to "maximize compatibility and minimize risk" in Human-AI Co-evolution. Below are a few themes I break my work into:
- Human-AI Alignment and Socially Intelligent NLP:
I design and evaluate language technologies that align with human values, behavior, and expectations—focusing on how humans and AI systems can understand, adapt to, and collaborate with one another in communication.
- Language Models as Social Measurement Proxies:
I use language models to uncover latent patterns in human communication, analyzing multi-turn dialogue, emotional trajectories, and social networks.
- Emotionally and Culturally Grounded Dialogue Systems:
My work develops conversational agents that are sensitive to emotion, culture, and context—especially in high-stakes, moral, and emotional settings—by combining NLP with insights from psychology, social dynamics, and cross-cultural communication.
My long term goal encompasses build AI systems that can genuinely understand and communicate with people, enabling more trustworthy, collaborative, and equitable human-AI interaction.
I mean this as not just through language, but through shared social, emotional, and cultural understanding
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Q: How do I pronounce your last name?
A: Roh-kheeth
Q: Why the mismatch?
A: 🤷
Q: Ok...what about your first name?
A: Sue-shree-tah
Q: What are you interested in?
A: Running, reading, and cooking. I try and make a new eggless recipe every week (thanks to my allergic roomie). I'm also addicted to using Strava and tracking my mile per hour records. In the Florida heat, it's an impressive brag.
