Akshay Kolgar Nayak
Researcher · Engineer
I'm a Ph.D. candidate at Old Dominion University (opens in new tab)'s Accessible Computing Lab (opens in new tab), advised by Dr. Vikas Ashok (opens in new tab). My work bridges Human-Centered AI, accessibility and usability, social computing, computing education, healthcare simulation, responsible AI, and agentic LLM evaluation.
Currently I work with the Health, Education, and AI Learning (HEAL) group (opens in new tab) at ODU, where I research interactions between healthcare-provider students and standardized patients (SPs) in OSCEs (Objective Structured Clinical Examinations) for multimodal evaluation of both the students' clinical skills and the SPs' acting skills. I'm also an Applied Science Intern at MAP Communications (opens in new tab), where I build multimodal evaluation pipelines to analyze calls between humans and AI customer-service agents for conversation quality, policy compliance, and escalation handling. Before the Ph.D., I worked at London Stock Exchange Group (opens in new tab) and BetaNXT (opens in new tab).
Actively seeking full-time opportunities for 2027
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