Ph.D. Student
Gauri Vaidya is a first-year Ph.D. student at Biocomputing and Developmental System Group (BDS) in the Computer Science and Information Systems (CSIS) department at the University of Limerick, where she is supervised by Professor Conor Ryan, Full Professor at the University of Limerick. Her research is in the field of Evolutionary Computation which is a subfield of Artificial Intelligence. During her research, she will develop techniques to develop a multimodal Grammatical Evolution tool that represents multiple different data modalities and aims at integrating them to get valuable insights. Gauri holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Government College of Engineering, Aurangabad, India. Her Bachelor thesis was to develop a blockchain-based First Information Report (FIR) for the City Police Service to avoid malicious tampering. Prior to joining the CRT-AI-funded Ph.D. program, Gauri worked as a Trainee-Analyst in Principal Global Services, Pune, India. Her work included developing customized applications for the clients in Salesforce software tool, the world’s largest Customer Relation Management tool. In her spare time, Gauri enjoys reading books, painting, and exploring art forms.