Overview

Cheyanne is a second-year graduate student in the Data Science program in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the Hal Marcus College of Science and Engineering, University of West Florida.

Short description of your current research project:

Optimizing a RAG-based AI academic advisor, improving retrieval accuracy through chunking, metadata filtering, and re-ranking, while leveraging agents to manage conversational context.

Key techniques involve cleaning academic data, implementing semantic caching for speed, using query rewriting to handle ambiguity, and utilizing hybrid search