Research & Experience
Graduate Research Assistant
Artificial Intelligence Institute, University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC, USA
Leading research and development on next-generation knowledge graph platforms and agentic AI systems at the AI Institute.
EMPWR: The Next Gen Knowledge Graph Platform
- Led the development and shipped EMPWR, a comprehensive platform designed to manage the end-to-end KG lifecycle, including design, ingestion, enrichment, and maintenance
- Built modularized workflows for extracting knowledge from unstructured, semistructured, and structured data sources
- Large-Scale KG Construction: Developed the PercuroKG (in collaboration with WiPro), a pharmaceutical KG consisting of >6 million triples, 1.5 million nodes, and 3,000 relation types
C3AN: Compact, Custom, and Composite AI Systems
- Designing MCP servers to enable and support agentic system integration for planning and orchestrating AI workflows
- Providing technical leadership and mentoring effort in multimodal KG construction
Graduate Teaching Assistant
- Teaching assistant for CSCE 145: Algorithm Design I and CSCE 146: Algorithm Design II
Leading the effort in developing a Neuro-symbolic AI approach involving small language models and knowledge graphs to ingest medical device documentation, process guidelines, and patent submissions to accelerate and automate medical device R&D.
- Directed collaborative data science discovery projects with UC Berkeley to develop a medical device knowledge graph to support complex multi-hop reasoning and information retrieval with provenance from large-scale FDA 510(k) datasets
- Engineered a Multi-Strategy (Document/Graph)-RAG with LLM-as-a-Judge approach to improve response traceability
- Designed a KG-LLM response fidelity score to evaluate and audit the lineage of agents outputs and reduce hallucinations in medical device QA
Pioneered knowledge graph initiatives to transform sales engagement data into actionable intelligence for enterprise sales teams.
- Designed the Sales Engagement Ontology to unify semantic standards between data producers and consumers
- Pioneered the Sales Engagement Knowledge Graph (SEG) to surface the people's information in sales activities from 4.7M engagement logs; improved the sales-rep-to-lead connections throughput by 20% (~64K newly discovered people entities)
- Modeled the non-sequential sales processes with multi-label temporal graphs; transitioning from a linear "stages" view to a multi-dimensional "activity" view to improve context and next best actions
Developed context-enriched deep learning models to align knowledge from >200 heterogeneous sources for the UMLS Metathesaurus; streamlined the maintenance effort with humans in the loop.
- Benchmarked performance with various Knowledge Graph Embedding techniques and Siamese Network architectures to scale biomedical vocabulary alignment across 172 millions term pairs; achieved a 5.0% increase in precision (>94% F1) and a 50% reduction in false positive rates compared to lexical baselines
- Optimized large-scale training pipelines using Keras, TensorFlow, and Slurm on high-performance computing clusters, utilizing over 2,700 GPU hours for models training and validation
Graduate Research Assistant
Kno.e.sis Center, Wright State University
Dayton, OH, USA
Project kHealth: Semantic Multisensory Mobile Approach to Personalized Asthma Care
Worked with SMEs and designed a Personalized Health Knowledge Graph to collect and integrate data from multimodal streams (clinical notes, mobile health application, and outdoor environmental observations); >30 parameters involving up to 1852 data points/day, collected throughout 1 or 3 month patient participation.
- Developed conversational agents to improve patient engagement and personalized care in pediatric asthma management; achieved over 75% patient compliance (110 patients out of 150 study cohort)
Graduate Teaching Assistant
- Teaching assistant for CS 1160: Introduction to Computer Programming
Publications
Journal Papers
Building Multimodal Knowledge Graphs: Automation for Enterprise Integration
IEEE Internet Computing, 29(3), 76-84, 2025
The EMPWR Platform: Data and Knowledge-Driven Processes for the Knowledge Graph Lifecycle
IEEE Internet Computing, 28(1), 61-69, 2024
Knowledge Graph Empowered Machine Learning Pipelines for Improved Efficiency, Reusability, and Explainability
IEEE Internet Computing, 27(1), 81-88, 2023
Extending Patient-Chatbot Experience with Internet-of-Things and Background Knowledge
IEEE Intelligent Systems, 34(4), 24-30, 2019
kBot: Knowledge-enabled Personalized Chatbot for Asthma Self-Management
IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP), 138-143, 2019
Determination of Personalized Asthma Triggers From Multimodal Sensing and a Mobile App
JMIR Pediatrics and Parenting, 2(1), 2019
Cognitive Services and Intelligent Chatbots: Current Perspectives and Special Issue Introduction
IEEE Internet Computing, 2019
How Will the Internet of Things Enable Augmented Personalized Health?
IEEE Intelligent Systems, 33(1), Jan-Feb 2018
Conference Papers
Context-Enriched Learning Models for Aligning Biomedical Vocabularies at Scale in the UMLS Metathesaurus
The Web Conference (WWW), 2022
Biomedical Vocabulary Alignment at Scale with the UMLS Metathesaurus
The Web Conference (WWW), 2020
Siamese KG-LSTM: A Deep Learning Model for Enriching UMLS Metathesaurus Synonymy
12th International Conference on Knowledge and Systems Engineering (KSE), 2020
Workshop Papers
Evaluating Biomedical BERT Models for Vocabulary Alignment at Scale in the UMLS Metathesaurus
Workshop on Insights from Negative Results in NLP, ACL, 2022
Using Contact, Content, and Context in Knowledge-Infused Learning: A Case Study of Non-Sequential Sales Processes
Knowledge Graph Conference Workshop on Knowledge-Infused Learning, 2021
Construction of UMLS Metathesaurus with Knowledge-Infused Deep Learning
2nd International Contextualised Knowledge Graph workshop (CKG), ISWC, 2019
Singleton Property Graph: Adding A Semantic Web Abstraction Layer to Graph Databases
2nd International Contextualised Knowledge Graph workshop (CKG), ISWC, 2019
Augmented Personalized Health: Using Semantically Integrated Multimodal Data for Patient Empowered Health Management Strategies
mHealth Technology Showcase, NIH, June 2018
kHealth Digital Personalized Healthcare technology for Pediatric Asthma
mHealth Technology Showcase, NIH, June 2018
Feasibility of Recording Sleep Quality And Sleep Duration Using Fitbit in Children with Asthma
32nd Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies (SLEEP), 2018
Correlating Multimodal Signals with Asthma Control in Children Using kHealth System
American Thoracic Society, 2018
Patents & Preprints
Robust Useful and General Task-oriented Virtual Assistants
U.S. Patent 12,067,983, issued August 20, 2024
RESTORE: Graph Embedding Assessment Through Reconstruction
arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.14659, 2023
UBert: A Novel Language Model for Synonymy Prediction at Scale in the UMLS Metathesaurus
arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.12716, 2022
Electronic Health Record Integration
Encyclopedia of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, vol. 2, pp. 1063-1076. Oxford: Elsevier, 2019
Tutorials
Knowledge-driven Processes for Big Data Management and Applications
Tutorial at IEEE BigData, 2024
Data and Knowledge-Driven Processes for the Knowledge Graph Lifecycle
Tutorial at Sixth International Knowledge Graph and Semantic Web Conference (KGSWC), December 2024
Volunteer Services
Program Committee
- Knowledge Graph and Semantic Web Conference (KGSWC) - 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026
- Text2KG Workshop - 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026
- AAAI SmartIoT Workshop - 2018
Reviewer
- ACL Rolling Review - May 2025
- PeerJ Computer Science
- IEEE Access
- IEEE Transactions
- IEEE Internet Computing
- JMIR AI Journal
- International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM) - 2020
- Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) - 2020
- International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) - 2018
- The Web Conference (WWW) - 2018
- AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence - 2018
Invited Speaker
- Collaborative Assistants for the Society (CASY) - 2020
- AIISC Summer Camp - 2024, 2025