My name is Sakshi. I am currently a 1st year C.S. Ph.D. student at the University of Maryland, College Park, advised by Prof. Ramani Duraiswami at PIRL Lab and Prof. Dinesh Manocha at Gamma Lab on audio and language processing. Currently I am working on improving complex reasoning tasks in audio and natural language models. I completed my M.S. from UMass Amherst in 2022 where I worked with Prof. Ethan Zuckerman on Extreme Speech detection on YouTube. Previous to UMass, I served as a Software Engineer II at Cisco Systems, Bangalore. My primary work at Cisco involved building network assurance software systems for Cisco’s Service Provider customers. My currrent research focuses on deep learning for audio processing, with a focus on building efficient models and the integration of language as a tool to improve the performance of audio processing tasks.

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Email ID: ssakshi@umd.edu