Preeti Ramaraj
Postdoctoral Scholar at UC San Diego Computer Science and Engineering Department (CSE)
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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Top SchoolPreeti Ramaraj is a postdoctoral scholar and AI engineer with a PhD in Computer Science and a decade of experience building interactive, human-centered robotic systems for healthcare and everyday environments. Her research specializes in Interactive Task Learning and improving non-expert instructors’ mental models so robots can learn from on-the-fly teaching and demonstrations, informed by multiple human-subject studies and qualitative analyses. She has bridged industry and academia through internships at PARC, Intel Labs, and Microsoft, shipping production software early in her career and translating those engineering practices into rigorous HRI research. Based in San Diego, Preeti combines systems-level software experience (C#, WPF, SQL) with HRI experimental design, producing actionable design requirements and transparency mechanisms that reduce common teaching failures. A less obvious strength is her ability to move between end-to-end product ownership and nuanced user study methods, enabling robot learners that are both deployable and psychologically attuned to non-expert teachers.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Engineering at Sardar Patel Institute of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at University of MichiganHigh School, High School at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan's College
English, Hindi, Tamil, Marathi
Github Skills (15)
sml9
robotics8
agent-based-modeling8
pybullet8
ros8
agent7
jekyll-theme3
converter2
csv2
jekyll2
formatting2
json2
sql1
architecture1
intelligent1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
preetiramaraj/rosie
May 2016 - Sep 2023
Soar Agent (and SML code) that learns through situated interactive instruction in a robotic environment
Contributions:53 pushes, 28 branches in 7 years 5 months
smlroboticsagentsoarinstruction
preetiramaraj/preetiramaraj.github.io
Jul 2017 - Oct 2024
Contributions:13 pushes in 7 years 5 months
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