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Payal Mohapatra


Contact
E-mail:       payalmohapatra2026@u.northwestern.edu | My Website | Google Scholar
Education

September 2021 - Present : Northwestern University
Ph.D. Student, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

August 2015 - November 2017 : Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Masters, Department of Electrical Engineering

August 2011 - July 2015 : Madras Institute of Technology
B.E., Department of Electronics and Instrumentation

Experience
Analog Devices Inc. :
04/2021 - 09/2021: Senior Engineer
11/2017 - 03/2021: Design Verification Engineer

About me
I am a second year PhD student in the department of Computer Engineering. I enjoy working on real world human-centric applications using methods inspired from computer science and health research. I am interested in investigating techniques to use data-driven methods with non-manicured datasets under practical challenges (lack of data and labels, data quality, multi-modal learning and sensor fusion, issue of missing modality etc.). Another aspect I wish to drive through my research is inclusivity in technology. I am interested in solving problems faced by the minority users (atypical speakers and voice assisted technology, darker skin-tone subjects and optical heart rate monitors). I want to emphasize on model explainability in addition to model accuracy as a key performance index in my research.
Publications