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Technical University of Munich

Medha Mohan Ambali Parambil

Research Assistant, PhD Student

Room: 249

Office Hours: by appointment

E-Mail: medha[dot]mohan[at]tum[dot]de

Bio

I am a PhD candidate in Informatics and Computing at United Arab Emirates University (UAEU) and a Guest Doctoral Candidate at the Technical University of Munich. My research focuses on real-time classroom engagement detection and adaptive teaching recommendation, combining computer vision, affective computing, and large language models.

Career Development

  • 2011 – 2015: B.Tech in Applied Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering, Government Engineering College, Kozhikode, India
  • 2016 – 2018: M.Tech in Computational Mathematics, National Institute of Technology Karnataka, India
  • 2020 – 2023: Research Assistant, AI and Robotics Lab, United Arab Emirates University, UAE
  • 2023 – now: PhD Candidate, College of Information Technology, United Arab Emirates University, UAE
  • 2025: Visiting Researcher, Technical University of Munich, Germany
  • 2026 -  now: Guest Doctoral Candidate, Technical University of Munich, Germany

Research Interests

  • AI in Education
  • Human-Centered AI
  • Computer Vision and Affective Computing
  • Recommendation Systems
  • LLMs

Publications

  1. Ambali Parambil, M. M., Bühler, B., Bouktif, S., Alnajjar, F., & Kasneci, E. (2026). AI-Generated Classroom Videos in Education Research: Educator Perceptions of Realism, Engagement Cues, and Usefulness. EdArXiv.
  2. Ambali Parambil, M. M., et al. (2025). Assessing Student Attention Levels in the Classrooms Using Large Language Models. IEEE FIE 2025.
  3. Ambali Parambil, M. M., Bouktif, S., Gochoo, M., & Alnajjar, F. (2025). Comparing Emotion Detection Methods in Online Classrooms: YOLO Models, Multimodal LLM, and Human Baseline. IEEE EDUCON 2025.
  4. Ambali Parambil, M. M., et al. (2024). Navigating the YOLO landscape: A comparative study of object detection models for emotion recognition. IEEE Access.
  5. Ambali Parambil, M. M., et al. (2024). Integrating AI-based and conventional cybersecurity measures into online higher education settings. Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence.

For an up-to-date list of publications, please see my Google Scholar. For recent updates and activities, visit my LinkedIn.

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