Varsha Achar

Varsha is a principle developer and researcher on the Jill Watson project. As a member of the JW team, she works on developing a Virtual Teaching Assistant that can answer questions about a course. She is currently pursuing her Masters in Computer Science (specializing in Interactive Intelligence) at Georgia Tech. Her research interests include Knowledge Engineering, Cognitive science, Human-Computer Interaction, and Natural Language Processing. 

Outside school and the Design and Intelligence Lab, Varsha loves to dance, read, watch movies and TV shows, and attend hackathons!