Research

EmbedTalk: Talking Head Synthesis using Gaussian Embeddings

Arpita Saggar, Jonathan C. Darling, Duygu Sarikaya, David C. Hogg

 
Preprint (2026)

Embeddings to model speech-driven facial deformations for 3DGS-based talking head synthesis

AI-simulated clinical consultations: Assessing the potential of ChatGPT to support medical training

Arpita Saggar, Vania Dimitrova, Duygu Sarikaya, David C. Hogg, Jonathan C Darling

 
BMJ Archives of Disease in Childhood (2026)

ChatGPT-based agents to simulate patients, medical students, and examiners in OSCE scenarios

Score Before You Speak: Improving Persona Consistency in Dialogue Generation using Response Quality Scores

Arpita Saggar, Jonathan C. Darling, Vania Dimitrova, Duygu Sarikaya, David C. Hogg

 
European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (2025)

Score-conditioned next token prediction to improve persona consistency in dialogue

Micro-projections of multidimensional child poverty in sub-Saharan Africa

Marina Vicini, John Fitzgerald, Daniela Pinto Veizaga, Arpita Saggar, Oliver Fiala

 
Handbook on Child Poverty and Inequality (2025)

Chapter on machine learning methods for producing fine-grained multidimensional child poverty estimates.

XAI-MethylMarker: Explainable AI approach for biomarker discovery for breast cancer subtype classification using methylation data

Sheetal Rajpal, Ankit Rajpal, Arpita Saggar, Ashok K Vaid, Virendra Kumar, Manoj Agarwal, Naveen Kumar

 
Expert Systems with Applications (2023)

Explainable AI-based biomarker discovery framework applied to DNA methylation data to determine a small biomarker set for breast cancer stratification.

COV-ELM classifier: An extreme learning machine based identification of COVID-19 using chest X-ray images

Sheetal Rajpal, Manoj Agarwal, Ankit Rajpal, Navin Lakhyani, Arpita Saggar, Naveen Kumar

 
Intelligent Decision Technologies (2022)

A three-stage ELM-based framework to distinguish between COVID-19, normal, and pneumonia chest X-rays.

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