Indian-American professor receives Amazon Research Award to study evolving machine learning systems

An Indian-American professor of computer science at a university in the US has received an

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Amazon Research Award to design a tool that minimises negative user experiences.

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Pavithra Prabhakar, who is the Peggy and Gary Edwards chair in engineering, was one of 74 recipients of the awards from Amazon,

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which also includes an unrestricted gift, access to more than 300 Amazon public datasets, and Amazon Web Services’

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artificial intelligence and machine learning services and tools, the Kansas State University said in a statement.

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Prabhakar currently serves as a programme director at the National Science Foundation while on sabbatical from K-State.

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The tool itself would be utilised to minimise disruptive changes to the user experience of machine learning-based software systems as the product is refined and

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retrained over time. She explained the issue with an example of a search engine tool being retrained to provide

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superior automated results but in the process, losing some of the results the end user expects to see.

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