Publications

Thinking While Speaking: Inference-Time Knowledge Transfer for Responsive and Intelligent Conversational Voice Agents

V. Srinivas^†, Z. Englhardt^†, V. Iyer, S. Patel

^†Co-primary authors

A responsive on-device small model "mouth" speaks while a remote large model "brain" thinks and performs more complicated tasks in the background without real-time constraints.

Substance over Style: Evaluating Proactive Conversational Coaching Agents

V. Srinivas, X. Xu, X. Liu, A. Kumar, I. Galatzer-Levy, S. Patel, D. McDuff

Collaborative conversational paradigms allow better context-seeking and therefore better personalized recommendation in open-ended conversations.

The Anatomy of a Personal Health Agent

A.A. Heydari^†, K. Gu^†, V. Srinivas^†, H. Yu, Z. Zhang, Y. Zhang, A. Paruchuri, Q. He, et al.

^†Co-primary authors

An agentic framework for a conversational personal health agent that can understand wearable data, provide coaching, and look through personal health records.

Efficient Video Redaction at the Edge: Human Motion Tracking for Privacy Protection

H. Qiao, V. Srinivas, P. Dinda, R. Dick

An edge-based video redaction system using video & UWB for real-time privacy protection without cloud processing.

Knowledge Boosting: Model Collaboration During Low-Latency Inference

V. Srinivas, M. Itani, T. Chen, S.E. Eskimez, T. Yoshioka, S. Gollakota

Allowing tiny audio models on-device to receive time-delayed hints from larger off-device models but still output in real time.

LoRa Synchronized Energy-Efficient LPWAN

B. Zhang, V. Srinivas, Y. Zhang, R.P. Dick

A dynamically configuring LoRa network for use in low-power agricultural monitoring.

Vidya Srinivas