Anuja Tayal
I am a Ph.D. Scholar at University of Illinois, Chicago under the supervision of Dr. Barbara Di Eugenio in the field of Natural Language Processing .
My research interests include solving various problems using NLP approaches.
- Exploring conversational architectures that deliver self-care information to African American patients with heart failure.
- Proposed a neuro-symbolic dialogue system to help heart failure patients monitor salt intake.
- Examined different prompting strategies for LLMs to generate synthetic conversations in the absence of patient-oriented self-care dialogues.
- Conducted a user study with African American Heart Failure patients to understand how they perceive information by asking them to interact with 2 versions of dialog systems.
- Exploring different ways to combine the strengths of task-oriented dialog systems (TODS) and LMs/LLMs to create a hybrid dialog model.
I am always looking for interesting reasearch based internship opportunities. I always welcome the opportunity to collaborate and discuss my research. Please feel free to reach out to me via email if you’re interested.
news
| Aug 25-29,2025 | Attending the SIGdial'25 Conference in Avignon, France and presenting my paper on 'Towards conversational assistants for health applications: using ChatGPT to generate conversations about heart failure'. |
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| July 2025 | News article published on UIC Today about our team's success at the CAIDF Hackathon. |
| Jun 11, 2025 | Successfully defended my PhD proposal and officialy a PhD candidate! |
| May ,2025 | Team won 2nd place at CAIDF Hackathon where we Developed Discharge Pathfinder, an LLM tool that streamlines NICU discharge by simplifying medical jargon to support caregivers and improve patient outcomes. |
| May 20, 2024 | Attending the LREC-Coling'24 Conference Virtually where my paper 'A Neuro-Symbolic Approach to Monitoring Salt Content in Food' was accepted in CL4Health workshop. |
| May 13, 2024 | Attending The Web Conference'24 (WWW) Virtually where my paper 'Dynamic Contexts for Generating Suggestion Questions in RAG Based Conversational Systems' was accepted in PromptEng 2024 workshop. |
| Oct 12, 2023 | Poster abstract accepted for the Mitigating AI Risk through Ethical Data Science Workshop at the 2023 AMIA Symposium. |
| Jun 15 - Aug 21, 2023 | Interning as NLP R&D Data Scientist Intern at P&G (Proctor & Gamble), Mason |
| Apr 20, 2023 | In San Francisco for CRA-WP Grad Cohort for Women |
| Jan 20, 2023 | Accepted to a three month Google's Computer Science Research Mentorship Program (CSRMP) that matches students with Google mentors and peers to support their pursuit of computer science research pathways. |