About Me

I’m a Ph.D. student at Virginia Tech, working in the Digital Libraries Research Group under supervision of William A. Ingram from University Libraries and Dr. Hoda Eldardiry from the Machine Learning Lab. My research sits at the intersection of digital libraries and information retrieval, and focuses on enhancing the accessibility, discoverability, and analysis of Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) in digital repositories, with particular emphasis on improving how these scholarly works are classified, organized, and retrieved.

Before starting my Ph.D., I also worked as a post-graduate researcher at the University of Glasgow’s Information Retrieval Group in 2024 for a few months. I also spent several years teaching undergraduate computing courses including Programming, Database Systems, Data Structures and Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, and Digital Information Processing.

I completed my Master’s in Computer Science Engineering at Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2016 and my undergrad in Software Engineering from GIKI in 2011. I also worked as a software developer (mainly iOS apps) for some time.


Research Interests

  • Information Retrieval
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Scholarly Big Data

News

March 2026 Our workshop report Report on the 1st Workshop on Building Innovative Research Systems for Digital Libraries (BIRDS 2025) at TPDL 2025 has been published in ACM SIGIR Forum. Read about it here.
December 2025 I presented my paper titled Retrieval-Augmented LLMs for ETD Subject Classification at the 2025 IEEE Big Data Workshop on Computational Archival Science.
October 2025 My extended research abstract titled Enhancing Digital Libraries as Communication Tools: LLMs for Automated Subject Classification of Electronic Theses and Dissertations was accepted to be published in the proceedings of the 43rd ACM International Conference on Design of Communication (SIGDOC).
September 2025 I attended the TPDL Conference 2025 held at Tampere, Finland, and presented my work titled Evaluating Human-LLM Alignment in ETD Subject Classification.
April 2025 My presentation titled Agentic AI for the Rescue received Honorable Mention Award at the ACM-CAPWIC 2025 held at GWU, Washington DC.
February 2025 My research abstract titled AI Agents for the Rescue: A Summarization Framework for Actionable Crisis Intelligence is accepted to be published in the ISCRAM 2025 conference proceedings.