Dr Deepak Akkil

I am an HCI research scientist, Rapid Prototyper and Data Analyst. My key interest is in multimodal interaction research and data-driven UX design.I have a PhD in Human-Computer Interaction from the Visual Interaction Research Group (VIRG), TAUCHI, Tampere University. My PhD focused on eye tracking and gaze-based HCI on wearables such as AR/VR devices, and gaze data quality issues.I am a competent Software developer and System Engineer (C#, Python,TypeScript and Android) and have a flair for descriptive and inferential data analysis using R and SPSS. More recently I have found myself deeply interested and hands on in the domain of GenAI and AI agents. We created Agent-E , the predecessor of all the modern web agents, which was significantly ahead of its time.Ever since, I have created n...