Alankar Jain is a LTI MLT (Masters in Learning Technology) student at Carnegie Mellon University, where he is advised by Prof. Justine Cassell. He feels fortunate to be working on his dream of building robust AI beneficial to humankind through his research on innovating Deep Reinforcement Learning techniques and applying them to the complicated task of building socially-aware task-oriented conversational agents for domains as diverse as movie recommendation systems, and peer tutors for teenagers: agents that not only assist humans in their day-to-day tasks but also build a long-term harmonious relationship with them, in such a way as to improve task performance, and create a world where the importance of social interaction is highlighted rather than forgotten.
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