Kamalakkannan Ravi

PhD Candidate at UCF

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I am a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Engineering at the University of Central Florida, advised by Prof. Jiann-Shiun Yuan, set to complete my degree in May 2025. Supported by the ORCGS Doctoral Fellowship, my research focuses on understanding sociotechnical systems.

With experience across natural language processing, computational social science, biomedical informatics, computer vision, system design, and applied machine learning, I am passionate about building scalable AI systems that emphasize transparency, foster user trust, and contribute positively to society.

Beyond? Outdoors, piano, books, and scenic Ole Florida!!

Work Experience

AI/ML Intern

Tokyo Electron Limited, Albany, New York, USA. Jun 2024 - Ongoing

Augmenting process control with generative AI.

Research Scientist Intern

Snap Inc., Santa Monica, California, USA. September 2019 - December 2019

Developed LLMs to recommend social media posts, micro-blogs, and short messages.

Research Scientist Intern

Siemens Healthineers, Princeton, New Jersey, USA. May 2019 - August 2019

Developed proof-of-concept LLM-based predictive models for EHR to improve diagnostics and patient outcomes.

Research Assistant

Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, Tamil Nadu, India. Jun 2014 - Jul 2018

Developed algorithms for image and signal reconstruction, and medical image analysis.

Selected Publications

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    ALERT: Active Learning and Explainable AI for Robust Threat Detection in Telegram
    Kamalakkannan Ravi, and Jiann-Shiun Yuan
    Under Review 🤞
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    Ideological orientation and extremism detection in online social networking sites: A systematic review
    Kamalakkannan Ravi, and Jiann-Shiun Yuan
    Intelligent Systems with Applications, 2024
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    Comprehensive dataset of user-submitted articles with ideological and extreme bias from Reddit
    Kamalakkannan Ravi, and Adan Ernesto Vela
    Data in Brief, 2024
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    RICo: Reddit ideological communities
    Kamalakkannan Ravi, and Adan Ernesto Vela
    Online Social Networks and Media, 2024
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    Exploring Multi-Level Threats in Telegram Data with AI-Human Annotation: A Preliminary Study
    Kamalakkannan Ravi, Adan Ernesto Vela, Elizabeth Jenaway, and 1 more author
    In Proceedings of the 2023 22nd IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA), 2023
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    Classifying the Ideological Orientation of User-Submitted Texts in Social Media
    Kamalakkannan Ravi, Adan Ernesto Vela, and Rickard Ewetz
    In Proceedings of the 2022 21st IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA), 2022
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    79 MISSED DIAGNOSIS OF PANCREATIC DUCTAL ADENOCARCINOMA DETECTION USING DEEP CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK
    Sanne A. Hoogenboom, Kamalakkannan Ravi, Megan M. Engels, and 5 more authors
    Gastroenterology, 2021
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    Breast cancer histology classification using Deep Residual Networks
    Kamalakkannan Ravi, Sakthivel Selvaraj, Supriti Mulay, and 2 more authors
    In Research Poster Papers of the 2018 40th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2018
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    Deep Residual Network based Automatic Image Grading for Diabetic Macular Edema
    Santhosh Kumar,  Kamalakkannan Ravi, Supriti Mulay, and 2 more authors
    In Research Poster Papers of the 2018 40th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2018
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    Imagined speech classification using EEG
    Kamalakkannan Ravi, R Rajkumar, RM Madan, and 1 more author
    Advances in Biomedical Science and Engineering (ABSE), 2014

Awards/Recognitions

Oct 2024 UCF Graduate Presentation Fellowship Details
Oct 2023 UCF Graduate Presentation Fellowship Details
Jan 2023 Graduate Research Mentor Award. Details
Nov 2022 UCF Alumni Fellows Leadership Scholarship. Details
Oct 2022 UCF Graduate Presentation Fellowship. Details
Aug 2022 IEEE TMI Silver Distinguished Reviewer. Details
Feb 2022 Distinguished Referee: for Medical Physics journal. Details
Jan 2022 Graduate Research Mentor Award. Details
Aug 2018 ORCGS Doctoral Fellowship. Details

Reviewer and Academic Service

2024 - Program Committee Member, ICMLA 2024 Conference
2023 - Chair, Video Applications Session at ICMLA 2023 Conference
2020 - Reviewer, Medical Physics
2020 - Reviewer, PLOS One

Mentor in NSF-LEARN