Hi, I’m Priya 👋

I’m a PhD student at the University of Maryland. I am fortunate to be advised by Ritwik Gupta. My research interests are broadly in representation learning and geospatial foundation models, and I am motivated to apply this research to disaster response.

Previously, I worked as a federal contractor at the Army Research Laboratory. I hold an M.S. in Computer Science from Texas A&M University, where I was fortunate to be advised by Robin Murphy and was part of the team that developed the CLARKE system for disaster response, which was deployed in response to Hurricanes Helene and Debby.

You can reach me by email at perali [at] umd.edu. See my publications for a full list of my work.