Raja Kushalnagar

Full Professor, Gallaudet University

Joined

June 2019

Names

Raja Kushalnagar

Raja S Kushalnagar

Raja S. Kushalnagar

Emails

****@gallaudet.edu (Confirmed)

****@gmail.com

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Full Professor

Gallaudet University (gallaudet.edu)

2020 – Present

Associate Professor

Gallaudet University (gallaudet.edu)

2016 – 2020

Assistant Professor

Rochester Institute of Technology (rit.edu)

2010 – 2016

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Jehan-Francois Paris

2005 – 2010

Expertise

AI model bias

2020 – 2022

topic models

2020 – 2022

Publications

"It only needs to work for one of us": Rethinking DIY Deaf Tech Through Situated Co-Design
Shuxu Huffman, Robin Angelini, Raja Kushalnagar, Katta Spiel
- Crossref
- Readers: Everyone
Joint Bilingual Navigation of Informed Consent and Intake Forms in American Sign Language and Written English
Matthew Seita, Michaela Usha, Rachel Skwersky, Poorna Kushalnagar, Raja Kushalnagar
- Crossref
- Readers: Everyone
Barriers to Employment: The Deaf Multimedia Authoring Tax
Christian Vogler, Abraham Glasser, Raja Kushalnagar, Matthew Seita, Mariana Arroyo Chavez, Keith Delk, Paige DeVries, Molly Feanny, Bernard Thompson, James Waller
- Crossref
- Readers: Everyone
EmoSign: A Multimodal Dataset for Understanding Emotions in American Sign Language
Phoebe Chua, Cathy Mengying Fang, Takehiko Ohkawa, Raja Kushalnagar, Paul Pu Liang, Suranga Chandima Nanayakkara, Patricia Maes
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Customizing Generated Signs and Voices of AI Avatars: Deaf-Centric Mixed-Reality Design for Deaf-Hearing Communication
Si Chen, Haocong Cheng, Suzy Su, Stephanie Patterson, Raja Kushalnagar, Yun Huang, Qi Wang
- Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
- Readers: Everyone
Barriers to Employment: The Deaf Multimedia Authoring Tax
Christian Vogler, Abraham Glasser, Raja S. Kushalnagar, Matthew Seita, Mariana Arroyo Chavez, Keith Delk, Paige S. DeVries, Molly Feanny, Bernard Thompson, James M. Waller
- CoRR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
EmoSign: A Multimodal Dataset for Understanding Emotions in American Sign Language
Phoebe Chua, Cathy Mengying Fang, Takehiko Ohkawa, Raja S. Kushalnagar, Suranga Nanayakkara, Pattie Maes
- CoRR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Towards AI-driven Sign Language Generation with Non-manual Markers
Han Zhang, Rotem Shalev-Arkushin, Vasileios Baltatzis, Connor Gillis, Gierad Laput, Raja Kushalnagar, Lorna C Quandt, Leah Findlater, Abdelkareem Bedri, Colin Lea
- Crossref
- Readers: Everyone
"We do use it, but not how hearing people think": How the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Community Uses Large Language Model Tools
Shuxu Huffman, Si Chen, Kelly Avery Mack, Haotian Su, Qi Wang, Raja Kushalnagar
- Crossref
- Readers: Everyone
Speech AI for All: Promoting Accessibility, Fairness, Inclusivity, and Equity
Shaomei Wu, Kimi Wenzel, Jingjin Li, Qisheng Li, Alisha Pradhan, Raja Kushalnagar, Colin Lea, Allison Koenecke, Christian Vogler, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Norman Makoto Su, Nan Bernstein Ratner
- Crossref
- Readers: Everyone

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Co-Authors

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