Your instructor

Ramanand

PhD Scholar · Human-AI Interaction (HAIx) Lab, IIT Gandhinagar. Building adaptive interfaces at the intersection of HCI, biosignal processing, and assistive AI.

I am a PhD researcher at the Human-AI Interaction (HAIx) Lab, IIT Gandhinagar. Before the PhD, I trained deep-learning models on large-scale image datasets at Samsung R&D Bangalore and built test automation as a QA engineer at AlgoSec. CohortLab brings that mix to teaching: research-lab rigor, industry pragmatism, and a belief that fundamentals are learned by building.

Multimodal InteractionEye TrackingSpeech & NLPEMG / EEGAssistive CommunicationAdaptive InterfacesAccessibilityComputer Vision
Experience

Where the work has been

Jul 2024 — now

PhD Researcher & Teaching Assistant

IIT Gandhinagar

Doctoral research in AI at the Human-AI Interaction (HAIx) Lab. TA for CS435 Human-Computer Interaction, CS432 Databases, and ES112 Computing.

Jan 2025

Visiting Researcher — BCI for Rehabilitation

Ulster University, Northern Ireland, UK

Built a real-time brain-computer interface to monitor mental fatigue and improve patient engagement during stroke rehabilitation therapy.

May 2022 — Jul 2024

Quality Assurance Engineer

AlgoSec

Owned the complete feature lifecycle on the AppViz product — test planning, validation, and production sanity. Built automation pipelines with Selenium and API testing frameworks.

Jun 2021 — Dec 2021

Research Associate — Computer Vision

Samsung R&D Institute, Bangalore

Trained and evaluated deep-learning models (autoencoders, GANs, transformers) on 100K+ sample image datasets on GPU-accelerated Linux systems.

Selected publications

Peer-reviewed, not self-proclaimed

2026

Towards Enhancing Visual Reasoning through Gaze-Semantic Alignment and Attention Correction

ETRA '26 — ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research & Applications, Marrakesh
Gaze-semantic alignmentVisual reasoningAttention correction
2026

Evaluation of the Impact of Image Mutations on the Origin Classification of Digital Images

Information and Software Technology, Elsevier · vol. 194
ClassifiersMutation testingRobustness
2025

Design and Evaluation of a Multimodal Elevator System with Gaze and Multilingual Voice Controls

IndiaHCI '25 — 16th Intl. Conf. of HCI Design & Research, ACM
Eye trackingASRMultimodal interfaces
Education

The academic spine

2024 — present

PhD, Artificial Intelligence

IIT Gandhinagar

Confidence-aware multimodal interaction, assistive communication, and intent inference via gaze, speech, and biosignals. CGPA 9.0/10.

2018 — 2022

B.Tech, Computer Science & Engineering

NIT Uttarakhand

Algorithms, data structures, software engineering, and machine learning. CGPA 8.24/10.

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Every cohort is taught live, every application reviewed personally, every question answered directly.