Hello! I'm a Ph.D. candidate at UT Austin specializing in robotics and am part of TEXAS Robotics program. I'm broadly interested in the areas of active perception and motion planning. I'm advised by Dr. Mitch Pryor and Dr. Roberto Martin-Martin. I'm broadly interested in the area of active perception (vision and speech). In my research I aim to address challenges in optimal viewpoint selection and navigation decision problems. Lately, I've also worked on Speech recognition and Natural Language Understanding through my internships at Amazon AI. Let's start scrolling and learn more about me.

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Contact Details

Srinath Tankasala
stankasa@utexas.edu

A Few Of My Latest Creations

Career

AWS AI

Applied Scientist II intern May 2023 - Aug 2023

In this internship I explored the ability of different LLMs to re-write transcripted speech to correct for different types of errors. Exciting work coming ahead in the next few months on LLM generalization capablity to different tasks (such as ASR correction) with different input modalities.

Amazon Alexa AI

Applied Scientist II intern May 2022 - Aug 2022

This internship was my first venture into improving Automated speech recognition (ASR) using graph based methods. Specifically, we showed for the first time that information from the utterance audio can be shared across each utterances using graph based label propagation. This information sharing was used to re-rank the N-best hypotheses leading to fairer and improved WER and SER performance. I had the wonderful opportunity of working with amazing collaborators leading to a top 3% paper at ICASSP 2023!

Hover Inc

Computer Vision intern June 2021 - Aug 2021

I had the wonderful opportunity of working on SLAM optimization during my internship. I worked on improving the 3D reconstruction quality of different structures by imposing geometric constraints.

The MathWorks Inc.

Engineer in engineering development Sep 2017 - Aug 2019

I worked with Robotics and Controls teams at MathWorks. I worked on better integrating ROS and MATLAB as part of the ROS toolbox.

Education

University of Texas at Austin

Ph.D. Specializing in Robotics and AI August 2019-Present

Purdue University

Master of Science August 2015-August 2017

School of Cool Designers

B.Tech (Honors) in Mechanical engineering July 2011 - July 2015

Contact

Email

stankasa@utexas.edu

Anna Hiss Gymnasium (AHG - 0657), Room 1.216
2501 Wichita St, Austin, TX 78712