Zhila Aghajari

Ph.D

Computer Science

Lehigh University, Bethelehem

agent

- PA - Lehigh University, Bethelehem, PA - 2019-present - Investigated different linguistic features and developed unsupervised topic modeling - Improved human interpretation of the LDA topic modeling technique - Designed a web-based smart-reply - Developed a conversational AI agent - Led an experimental research, from designing and building prototypes, to data collection and analysis - Examined mechanisms of norms perceptions around misinformation, provided design implications - Clustering similar items (Ebay dataset) by combining word features of topic modeling and word - Generated smart replies using an - LSTM - Designed and developed unsupervised probabilistic methods, inspired by Latent Dirichlet allocation - Developed a deep learning based - Named Entity Recognition (NER) for clinical texts using - BioBert and Bi-LSTM - Analyzed Reddit political posts during the 2016 US presidential election using VADER