AVA Lab

Welcome to the AVA Lab.

About

Georgia Tech’s AI Virtual Assistant (AVA) lab is focused on research behind next-generation virtual assistants. We revisit assumptions regarding every aspect of modern AVAs - human-computer interaction design, single vs multimodal interactions, situated interactions over screens and mixed reality (AR/VR), task-oriented conversations to open-domain chit-chat to both, explicit to implicit (commonsense) knowledge-driven conversations, and higher level inference and reasoning.

People

Dr. Larry Heck – Principal Investigator

PhD Students

• Adar Avsian
• Benjamin Reichman
• Shrenik Bhansali
• Tyler Lizzo

Undergraduate Students

• Muhammad Y Yousuf
• Rishab Kalluri
• Saif Punjwani

AVA Lab Alumni

• Dr. Anirudh Sundar (Microsoft)
• Dr. Christopher Richardson (Google)
• Dr. Tamara Zubatiy (Northeastern University)
• John Taylor (IBM)
• William Gay (Opto Investments)

Contact

• Email: larryheck@gatech.edu
• Location: Tech Square Research Building (TSRB), Office 436b, 85 5th St., Atlanta, GA 30332