Priyanka Kargupta

I am a third year PhD candidate working in natural language processing at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, advised by Prof. Jiawei Han. I am supported by the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Prior to this, I was working on 3D scene representations with Prof. Ren Ng at the University of California, Berkeley, funded by the Intel SRC Fellowship.

My research aims to integrate structured knowledge and reasoning in order to make both models and students/researchers critically think. I specifically explore how to structure and unstructure the reasoning of both models and humans, as well as structure the data critical to guiding such reasoning.

My work explores this in both the educational (LLMs + Education) and scientific (AI for Research) domains. Specifically, how do we structure both the interactions between models and users (e.g., an Instructor model guiding a student through a problem), as well as the data critical to guiding such interactions (e.g., a student's knowledge state or external knowledge required to solve the problem)?