Christian Pumarada

Christian Pumarada is currently pursuing a bachelor's degree in computer engineering at the University of Central Florida. He joined the ISUE lab in the Fall of 2023. His research interests prominently focus on Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. He aims to play an active role in the development of AI to address complex challenges and in pushing the boundaries of what AI can achieve.

Publications

Maslych, M., Katebi, M., Lee, C., Hmaiti, Y., Ghasemaghaei, A., Pumarada, C., Palmer, J., Segarra Martinez, E., Emporio, M., Snipes, W., McMahan, R., and LaViola, J. "Mitigating Response Delays in Free-Form Conversations with LLM-powered Intelligent Virtual Agents", Proceedings of the 7th ACM Conference on Conversational User Interfaces (CUI '25), Article 49, 15 pages, July 2025.