CV
Curriculum vitae
General Information
| Full Name | Raj Sanjay Shah |
| rajsanjayshah@gmail.com | |
| Website | https://raj-sanjay-shah.github.io |
| Research Summary | PhD student in Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech working on natural language processing, evaluation, and robustness. My work spans benchmarking and domain adaptation, robust NLP methods, and human-centered applications supporting well-being. |
| Languages | English (native), Hindi (native), Gujarati (native), Marathi (expert), Sanskrit (intermediate) |
Education
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Aug 2023–Present PhD in Computer Science
Georgia Institute of Technology - GPA 4.0 / 4.0
- Advisor - Professor Sashank Varma
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May 2024–Sep 2025 Visiting Student Researcher
Stanford University - Advisor - Professor Diyi Yang
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Aug 2021–May 2023 MS in Computer Science
Georgia Institute of Technology - GPA 4.0 / 4.0
- Specialization in Machine Learning
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Aug 2017–Jul 2021 Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani - CGPA 8.54 / 10
- Minor in Data Science, GPA 9.8 / 10
Employment
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May–Aug 2025 Applied Scientist Intern II
Amazon Science · Rufus - Developed a clarification-driven dialogue summarization framework that identifies information gaps and generates targeted questions to improve summary completeness and accuracy across clinical, legal, and customer-support conversations.
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May–Aug 2024 Applied Scientist Intern II
Amazon Science · HealthScribe - Assessed large language models for high-quality behavioral-therapy progress-note generation. Deployed in Amazon AWS.
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May–Aug 2023 Sr. Research Software Engineer - AI
IBM Research · Human-Centered AI - Explored intervention strategies for high-quality human-AI collaborative data creation.
- Built a full-stack application for user studies investigating appropriate reliance on AI agents using subtle real-time nudges.
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May–Aug 2022 Software Developer - ML Intern
Epic Systems - Trained large language models to predict healthcare-provider workflow actions and surface relevant patient information in provider dashboards.
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Jan–Jun 2021 Software Development Intern
JPMorgan Chase - Developed automated testing scripts for the Merchant Services onboarding platform using Postman.
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May–Jun 2020 Research Intern
Samsung R&D Institute, India - Developed a bidirectional LSTM-based variational autoencoder to generate melodies and chords for piano music for the UX Ringtone project.
Awards
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2023–Present Georgia Tech President’s Fellowship
Georgia Institute of Technology - Competitive doctoral fellowship recognizing academic excellence, with a stipend of $5,500 per academic year for three years.
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2023 Marshall D. Williamson Fellowship Award
Georgia Tech Student Honors Program - Awarded to a well-rounded second-year Master’s student who embodies academic excellence and leadership.
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2022 Donald V. Jackson Fellowship Award
Georgia Tech Student Honors Program - Awarded to a well-rounded first-year Master’s student who embodies academic excellence and leadership.
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2021 Best Paper Award - Information Retrieval
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani - Awarded to a computer-science undergraduate for rigor in research and academics.
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2022 Student Travel Grant
Lalita and Ravindra Nath Foundation - Awarded for travel to EMNLP 2022.
Leadership and Teaching Experience
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Spring 2025, Fall 2025, Spring 2026 CS 6795 - Graduate Introduction to Cognitive Science
Georgia Institute of Technology - Graduate Teaching Assistant - Professor Keith McGreggor
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Fall 2025, Fall 2023 CS 7641 - Human and Machine Learning
Georgia Institute of Technology - Graduate Teaching Assistant - Professor Sashank Varma
- Created homework and assignments and assisted students with capstone projects.
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Spring 2024, Spring 2023 CS 3790 - Introduction to Cognitive Science
Georgia Institute of Technology - Graduate Teaching Assistant - Professor Sashank Varma
- Created homework and assignments.
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Fall 2022 CS 4650 - Natural Language Processing
Georgia Institute of Technology - Graduate Teaching Assistant - Professor Alan Ritter
- Created coding exercises for hands-on NLP experience.
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Fall 2020 CS F469 - Information Retrieval
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani - Undergraduate Teaching Assistant - Professor Vinti Agarwal
- Created a term-paper-based assignment to promote student exposure to research.
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Fall 2019 Academic Counselling Cell
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani - Undergraduate Teaching Assistant - Professor Sangeeta Sharma
- Planned mentorship programs, development seminars, and community-building activities.
Ongoing Research Projects
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Jan 2026–Present Cognitive Architecture Lab
Georgia Institute of Technology · Professor Sashank Varma - Towards a Foundation Model for Cognition
- On the Use of Foundation Models for Cognitive Science
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Sep 2025–Present SALT Lab
Stanford University / Georgia Institute of Technology · Professor Diyi Yang - Simulating AI Patients for Psychotherapy - Challenges and Opportunities
Service
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Current Student Ombudsperson
Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology - Serve as a student resource and neutral third party for PhD students with concerns involving faculty, staff, or the PhD program.
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Conference Reviewer
- Association for Computational Linguistics Rolling Review - 2024, 2025, 2026
- Cognitive Science Society - 2025, 2026
- International Conference on Machine Learning - 2026
- ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing - 2023, 2024, 2025
- ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - 2023, 2025
- Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Computational Social Science and Cultural Analytics Track - 2022
- IEEE Big Data - 2021
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Student Volunteer
- Advances in Cognitive Systems - 2025
- ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing - 2021, 2022
- Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics - 2021
Mentorship
Student mentorship
Ifdita Hasan Orney Master’s student, Stanford University (August 2024–present)
Jenna Kang PhD student, New York University (August 2024–present)
Harsh Lalai Undergraduate, BITS Pilani (July 2023–present); Incoming PhD student at Johns Hopkins University
James Jun MS CS, Georgia Tech (January 2024–May 2025); AI/ML Research Engineer at Georgia Tech Research Institute
Keane Zhang MS CS, Georgia Tech (August 2025–present)
Khushi Bhardwaj BS, Georgia Tech (August 2022–May 2024); Research Scientist at NVIDIA
Austin Peng MS CS, Georgia Tech (January 2024–May 2024); Machine Learning Engineer at Workday
Siddhant Narang MS CS, Georgia Tech (January 2024–May 2024); Senior Software Engineer at BlackRock
Xianle Feng MS CS, Georgia Tech (January 2024–May 2024); PhD student at George Mason University
Andrew Li MS CS, Georgia Tech (January 2024–May 2024); Robotics Software Engineer at Sandia National Laboratories
Om Bhatt MS CS, Georgia Tech (January 2024–May 2024); Research Technician and Lab Manager at the Relational Cognition Lab
Dhyan Gandhi MS CS, Georgia Tech (January 2024–May 2024); Software Engineer at Amazon
Mihir Sharma BS/MS CS, Georgia Tech (January 2024–May 2024); Research Engineer at NVIDIA
Ziyuan Cao MS CS, Georgia Tech (January 2024–May 2024); PhD student at Ohio State University
Arpan Parikh MS CS, Georgia Tech (January 2024–May 2024)
Atith Gandhi MS CS, Georgia Tech (January 2023–May 2024); Software Engineer at Oracle
Ananjan Nandi MS CS, Stanford University (August 2023–May 2024); PhD student at Stanford University
Cheng Chang MS CS, Stanford University (August 2023–May 2024); Software Engineer at Google
Siddhartha Vemuri MS CS, Georgia Tech (January 2023–August 2023)
Jason Liu Undergraduate, University of Pennsylvania (August 2021–August 2022)
Damian Rene Undergraduate, Swarthmore College (August 2021–August 2022)
Spoken Languages
- English - Native proficiency
- Hindi - Native proficiency
- Gujarati - Native proficiency
- Marathi - Expert proficiency
- Sanskrit - Intermediate proficiency