I am a first-year PhD student in Computer Science at Northeastern University, where I am advised by Dr. Malihe Alikhani. I am fortunate to be supported by the Khoury Distinguished Fellowship.
I completed my undergraduate at Colby College in Computer Science and Mathematical Science. My primary research focuses on natural language processing, with an emphasis on sign language processing, multimodal systems, and accessibility technologies to empower underrepresented communities. I am also passionate about sustainable computing and its potential to make AI more environmentally responsible.
In my free time, I enjoy critiquing classical ballet performances (Maria Khoreva is my favorite ballerina), running, and exploring new places through travel.
January 20-25, 2025
I will present a paper at COLING 2025 in Abu Dhabi.
December 20, 2024
Our work on the usability of multimodal learning systems was published at IEEE Access.
December 15, 2024
I am presenting a paper at ML for Systems Workshop at NeurIPS 2024 in Vancouver.
Evaluating Open-Source ASR Systems: Performance Across Diverse Audio Conditions and Error Correction Methods
Saki Imai, Tahiya Chowdhury and Amanda Stent
International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), 2025
Non-Visual Interfaces for Visual Learners: Multisensory Learning of Graphic Primitives
Stacy Doore, Justin Brown, Saki Imai, Justin Dimmel, Nicholas Giudice
IEEE Access
Predicting LLM Inference Latency: A Roofline-Driven ML Method
Saki Imai, Rina Nakazawa, Marcelo Amaral, Sunyanan Choochotkaew, Tatsuhiro Chiba
Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), ML for Systems Workshop, 2024
Is GitHub Copilot a Substitute for Human Pair-programming?
Saki Imai
International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), ACM Student Research Competition, 2022.