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 worked for summzarization of disaster events under the supervision of Dr Richard Mcreadie. 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
Awards & Honors
- The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi (2026) — Elected to membership (being in the top 10% of graduate students university-wide)
- Travel Award, Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (2026) — Selected by the Virginia Tech Department of Computer Science to represent CS@VT at the conference.
- Honorable Mention Award, ACM-CAPWIC (2025) — For the research presentation Agentic AI for the Rescue, George Washington University, Washington, DC.
- Commonwealth Scholarship, UK Government (2023, offered) — For Ph.D. study of 4 years at the University of Glasgow
- Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship (2023, offered) — For Ph.D. study of 3 years at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland.
- Fulbright Foreign Student Scholarship, US Government (2020, offered) — For Ph.D. study in the United States.
- TechWomen Emerging Leader Award, US Department of State (2018) — Professional training and mentorship in the Bay Area and Washington, DC.
- MEXT Scholarship, Japanese Government (2013–2016) — For completing my Master’s degree at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
- Dean’s Roll of Honor, GIK Institute (2009–2011) — For undergraduate GPA above 3.50.