CV (updated Aug. 2023)

My name's Sola Shirai (白井そら), and I'm currently working as a Research Scientist at IBM in Yorktown Heights, NY. This personal website is a bit out of date, and I'm thinking about what to put here in the future.

I previously received my PhD in Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, advised by Professor Deborah L. MgGuinness. Prior to attending RPI, I did my undergraduate at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. I grew up in Japan's Aomori prefecture.

My research interests generally revolve around knowledge-driven AI systems.

A common guiding theme of my graduate research is to utilize "context" to produce more interpretable and interoperable models.

I also have a broader interest in the areas of the Semantic Web, Knowledge Graphs, Natural Language Processing, and integrating machine learning methods together with knowledge-driven methods.