Ajay Vishwanath
PhD Research Fellow
I come from a tech background with diverse interests, ranging from information technology to computer vision. After my Masters specialization in artificial intelligence at National University of Singapore, I became interested in affective computing and AI ethics. My current research is based on artificial morality, where I focus on developing and training an artificial agent to be virtuous.
Research interests
Artificial Morality (aka Machine Ethics, AI alignment), virtue ethics, Explainable AI, AI and Ethics
Work experience
- 3 years of experience in the IT industry
- 3 years in artificial intelligence research with specialization in human robot interaction, natural language processing, and affective computing.
Selected publications
Gupta, R. K., Vishwanath, A., & Yang, Y. (2020). COVID-19 Twitter dataset with latent topics, sentiments and emotions attributes. arXiv e-prints, arXiv-2007.
Vishwanath, A., Singh, A., Chua, Y. H. V., Dauwels, J., & Magnenat-Thalmann, N. (2019, October). Humanoid co-workers: How is it like to work with a robot?. In 2019 28th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) (pp. 1-6). IEEE.
Baka, E., Vishwanath, A., Mishra, N., Vleioras, G., & Thalmann, N. M. (2019, June). “Am I talking to a human or a robot?”: A preliminary study of human’s perception in human-humanoid interaction and its effects in cognitive and emotional states. In Computer Graphics International Conference (pp. 240-252). Springer, Cham.
Scientific publications
- Vishwanath, Ajay; Omlin, Christian Walter Peter (2024). Exploring Affinity-Based Reinforcement Learning for Designing Artificial Virtuous Agents in Stochastic Environments. Frontiers of Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Multidisciplinary Applications. FAIEMA 2023. ISBN: 978-981-99-9835-7. Springer. Chapter. s 25 - 38.
- Vishwanath, Ajay; Bøhn, Einar Duenger; Granmo, Ole-Christoffer; Maree, Charl; Omlin, Christian Walter Peter (2022). Towards artificial virtuous agents: games, dilemmas and machine learning. AI and Ethics. ISSN: 2730-5953. doi:10.1007/s43681-022-00251-8.
- Vishwanath, Ajay; Omlin, Christian Walter Peter (2023). Exploring Affinity-based Reinforcement Learning for Designing Artificial Virtuous Agents in Stochastic Environments.
In social media
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