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. In Summer 2026, I worked as an Applied Science Intern at MAP Communications (opens in new tab), where I built 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