About

I'm Ruchi Bhalani, a 4th year computer science major currently pursuing a concurrent BS and MS at UT Austin with a concentration in ML/AI. I'm currently working as a Teaching Assistant for Behavioral Ethics in the Digital Age and a Learning Facilitator for Ethics in AI (part of the brand new online MS Data Science program at UT). I spent the past 3 years as a researcher for the Learning Agents Research Group at the AI Lab. Our most recent project was Tail Wagging the Dog: Perceptions of Canine vs. Non-Canine Behavior on a Quadruped Robot, which won the CS Award of Excellence at the 2022 Undergraduate Research Forum. It was published as Influencing Incidental Human-Robot Encounters: Expressive movement improves pedestrians' impressions of a quadruped service robot (2024).

My skills include Java, C, C++, Python, ROS (Robotics Operating System), Digital Ethics, JavaScript, React, SQL, Flask, ML, and Ethical AI. I am currently part of UT's Ethical AI Graduate Portfolio Program.

I spent the summer of 2022 and 2023 working as a Software Development Engineering Intern at Amazon on the AWS Commerce Platform at their headquarters in Seattle, WA. I will be heading back to the same team as a full time SDE starting August 2024.

In my free time, you can find me reading poetry, learning new instruments, attending F1 races, or watching movies!

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Feel free to contact me with any questions at ruchi (dot) bhalani (at) utexas (dot) edu!
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