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