Media Expertise: Artificial Intelligence (AI), Science, Technology
Areas of Interest: Natural Language Processing, Chatbots, Deep Learning Applications, Health and Wellness, Nutrition, Recommender Systems
Biography: Mandy Korpusik is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Loyola Marymount University, where she leads the Conversational Agents research group and teaches upper-division Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing courses. She completed her Ph.D. in Computer Science at MIT in 2019, her S.M. in Computer Science at MIT in 2015, and her B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering in 2013. Korpusik is an inventor on two patents, the recipient of a $256K NSF SBIR Phase I grant and $250K in research gifts from eBay, the founder of MealMate Inc., and the author of 14 peer-reviewed conference proceedings as well as three peer-reviewed journal articles.
Her primary research interest is applications of large language models (LLMs). Her team has built a nutrition chatbot that uses LLMs to perform semantic tagging of natural language meal descriptions, answer nutrition questions, and provide personalized healthy meal recommendations. She has also used LLMs with retrieval-augmented generation to answer questions for parents of children with disabilities. Finally, her research group has trained vision language Transformers and used multimodal LLMs to recognize foods and portion sizes in images of meals. Korpusik is passionate about developing safe, compliant conversational agents for health and wellness that provide personalized recommendations.
