Sushma Anand Akoju

Pronouns: she/her

PhD student, Computer Science, University of New Hampshire, Durham

  • Joined May 2023

Names

Sushma Anand Akoju (Preferred)
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Sushma Akoju
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Sushma A. Akoju

Emails

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****@unh.edu (Confirmed)
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Personal Links

Career & Education History

PhD student
Computer Science, University of New Hampshire, Durham (unh.edu)
2024 – Present
 
PhD student
Computer Science, University of Arizona (cs.arizona.edu)
2022 – 2024
 
MS student
Data Science, University of Colorado at Boulder (colorado.edu)
2021 – 2022
 
MS student
Information Science, University of Pittsburgh (pitt.edu)
2014 – 2015
 
MS student
University of Hyderabad (uohyd.ernet.in)
2011 – 2012
 

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Lonterm Mentor
Brian Zaharatos
2021 – Present
 
Data Mining Mentor
Di Wu
2021 – Present
 
Lonterm Mentor
2017 – Present
 
Science Communication Mentor
Jessica Bolker
2025 – 2025
 
NeSy Mentor
2024 – 2025
 
Teaching Mentor
Kristin Winet
2023 – 2025
 
Teaching Mentor
Byron Hempel
2023 – 2025
 
PhD Advisor
2024 – 2024
 
Mentor
2024 – 2024
 
Theory Mentor
Roberto Giacobazzi
2023 – 2024
 
TA Mentor & Theory Mentor
2023 – 2024
 
CogSci Mentor
2022 – 2024
 
NLP Shortterm Mentor
2022 – 2024
 
Research Project Advisor
Henry Lovejoy
2021 – 2024
 
Mentor
Johannes Kleiner
2023 – 2023
 
SymLogic Mentor
Anthony S. Gillies
2023 – 2023
 
PhD Advisor
2022 – 2023
 
Consciousness Mentor
Liad Mudrik
2022 – 2023
 
Shortterm Mentor
2022 – 2023
 
NLP Shortterm Mentor
2022 – 2023
 
CogSci/NS Mentor
2022 – 2023
 
Shortterm Mentor
2022 – 2023
 
Research Project Advisor
Kartikay Chadha
2021 – 2023
 
Mentor
2021 – 2023
 
Mentor
2021 – 2023
 
Social
2018 – 2023
 
Coworker
2022 – 2022
 
Coworker
2022 – 2022
 
Mentor @ CUBoulder
Bobby Schnabel
2021 – 2022
 
NLP Mentor
2021 – 2022
 
AMR Mentor
2021 – 2022
 
Stats Course Mentor
James Bird
2021 – 2022
 
Social
2018 – 2022
 
Mentor & TA for Seminar for Never Ending Learning Architectures
2018 – 2022
 
Robotics Supervisor
2020 – 2021
 
Project Supervisor
2020 – 2020
 
Supervisor
Matt Ruffalo
2019 – 2020
 
Mentor & Supervisor
2019 – 2020
 
TA for Seminar on Never Ending Learning Architectures
2018 – 2020
 
Advd ML Mentor
2018 – 2019
 
Coworker
2017 – 2019
 
Supervisor
2016 – 2019
 
Coworker
2016 – 2019
 
Coworker
2016 – 2019
 
TA for Advanced intro to ML
2018 – 2018
 
TA for Intro to Advanced ML
2018 – 2018
 
NLU Mentor
2016 – 2018
 
Coworker
2016 – 2018
 
Mentor & Supervisor
2016 – 2017
 
OpenFace - lead
2016 – 2017
 
OpenFace - Supervisor
2016 – 2017
 
E-Scale Research Project Supervisor
2015 – 2017
 
Peerage - Research Lead
Mahender Mandala
2015 – 2015
 
E-Scale - Research Lead
Anand Mhatre
2015 – 2015
 
E-Scale Research Lead
Jonathan Duvall
2015 – 2015
 

Expertise

Cognitive Science
2022 – Present
 
Reasoning
2021 – Present
 
Neuroscience (self-learning, notes available upon request)
2021 – Present
 
Toxic Language Detection
2021 – Present
 
Statistical Machine Learning
2019 – Present
 
Neurosymbolic methods
2018 – Present
 
First order/higher order logic, reasoning, proofs
2018 – Present
 
Knowledge representation & reasoning in natural language
2018 – Present
 
Deep Learning
2018 – Present
 
Symbolic Logic
2018 – Present
 
Theory of Computation
2018 – Present
 
Foundations for Language and Logic
2018 – Present
 
Conversational AI
2016 – Present
 
Natural Language Understanding
2016 – Present
 
Multimodal AI
2016 – Present
 
https://tinyurl.com/learning-philosophy
2016 – Present
 
Neural Networks
2016 – Present
 
https://tinyurl.com/neurosymbolic-methods-study
2014 – Present
 
Natural logic
2022 – 2024
 
OCR scanned image to text processing
2022 – 2023
 
Programming
2014 – 2023
 
Image Processing
2019 – 2021
 
Machine Learning
2017 – 2020