PhD Scholar at IIITD

Research Interests: Ethical AI, Semantic Web Technologies, Knowledge Representation, Neurosymbolic Techniques, Ethics, AI Philosophy

Highlights

• Ph.D. (Computer Science Engineering) scholar at IIITD, working on developing a framework for ethical AI using a neuro-symbolic approach.
• Research interests include semantic web technologies, ontology development, knowledge graphs and representation, neuro-symbolic techniques, AI ethics, and ethical philosophy.
• Three years of research and industry experience in data science, analytics, and management. -Future plans include the development of an ontology that is able to capture ethical theory using entities and relationships. These can help build a discrete structure that may support dilemma resolution in applied ethics. Further work includes real-world use case modeling for evaluation of the ontology. In addition to this, the development of rules for important ethical principles will help in reasoning and querying for analyzing ethics in action-based scenarios.

Education

PhD in Computer Science Engineering

• Thesis Title: Ethical Decision-making through Neurosymbolic Techniques
• CGPA: 8.54/10
• Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi

M.Sc. in Data Science

• Qualified with Distinction
• Heriot-Watt University

B.Tech. in Computer Engineering

• CGPA 8.82/10
• Jamia Millia Islamia

Research Projects

Ongoing:

APPL-E: An Applied Ethics Ontology to capture Ethical Theory and Contextual Information in various Domains

An Ontology to capture various abstract concepts in the field of ethical philosophy as entities and relationships.

A Dataset to Capture Ethical and Contextual Information about Real-world Cases with their Ethical Analysis

This dataset aims to document and annotate real-world cases where some moral reasoning takes place. The features selected for this dataset are carefully curated to represent the most vital contextual information that can imply the morality of the act. Each act can be labeled as either a morally right, wrong, or grey action. Ethical theory is also considered as schools of thought and the ethical principles violated. This dataset may facilitate ethics research in the field of AI applications and also aid ML and symbolic techniques for dilemma resolution.

A Survey on Techniques to Digitize Ethics and Ethical Decision-making

This survey paper looks at the various techniques used to capture ethical information in the computing space, and also the use of the latest technologies to facilitate ethical decision-making.

Completed:

Opacity, Transparency, and the Ethics of Affective Computing

Co-authored with M. Kumar, O. Chattar, J. Shukla, and R. Mutharaju. Published at the IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, Special Issue on Ethics in Affective Computing 2023.

A Comparative Study on Approaches to OCR for Different Scripts

Masters Thesis under the supervision of Dr. Hind Zantout. Heriot-Watt University, 2019.

Cryptanalysis of Image Cryptosystem Using Synchronized 4D Lorenz Stenflo Hyper-chaotic Systems

Co-authored with M. Ahmad, S. Ansari, M. Siddiqui, and S. Masood. Published in Information and Decision Sciences, AISC, Vol. 701, Springer, 2018.

Work Experience

Full-time:

• Data Analyst VLCC Beauty and Wellness (GCC HQ), Dubai, UAE. (May-Oct 2019)

Freelance:

• Research Assistant associated with the University of Bahrain, Royal University of Women, and Arab Gulf University. (Feb 2021-July 2021)
• Private Instructor - Subjects include Data Science, High-Performance Computing, Big Data Analytics, Data Mining, and Research Methods. (Dec 2020 - Sept 2021)

Technical Skills

• Software Development: Python, Java, R, C++, C, Prolog, C#, MATLAB
• Semantic Web Technologies: Protege, SWRL
• Database Management: Advanced MS Excel, MySQL
• Business Intelligence Software: MS-Power BI
• Quantitative Research: SPSS, Smart PLS (SEM)

Certifications

• Understanding Research Methods, University of London
• Using IBM SPSS for Research, Certified for IBM Business Analytics Software
• Business Analytics Specialization, Rice University
• Data Analytics Training, IIT Alumni Venture
• Algorithmic Optimization, Scientific Computation, and their Applications in Science and Technology, Jamia Millia Islamia
• Advanced Content and Social Tactics to Optimize SEO, University of California, Davis
• Cyber Security and Ethical Hacking, Bytecode Academy

Community Service and Memberships

• Volunteer at IEEE-Women in Engineering (IEEE-WIE)
• Member, Bahrain Statistical Society (BSS)
• Member, Computer Society of India (CSI-JMI Chapter)
• Volunteer, Association for Students in Economic and Commercial Sciences (AIESEC)
• Editor-in-Chief, Fiction Magazine, JMI CSE (2018)
• Volunteer, Black-belt trainer, Indo-International Taekwondo Academy, New Delhi