Kaushal Kumar Maurya
(he/him)| कौशल | கௌஷல் | スキル | కౌశల్ | Навык | ਹੁਨਰ |
I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad and advised by Dr. Maunendra Sankar Desarkar. I am an active collaborator at Microsoft India, working with Manish Gupta and Anoop Kunchukuttan. I spent the last three wonderful summers interning at Microsoft (Translation and Auto-suggest teams) and Nvidia-AI.
Research Interest
My research interest is applied Machine Learning for Natural Language Processing, with a particular focus on Multilingual Natural Language Processing. Simultaneously, I am also working towards improving knowledge augmentation and trustworthy generation with large language models.
As a multilingual myself, I perceive a pressing need for the development of cross-lingual/multilingual models that can facilitate a range of end-user applications in low-resource languages. In this regard, my research trajectory is primarily geared toward the development of novel models that can enable technology for low-resource languages that have limited or no data. To achieve this overarching objective, I am actively engaged in enhancing multilingual transfer learning models for language generation with limited supervision. My approach to addressing these issues is largely rooted in the linguistic perspective. In particular, my Ph.D. research focuses on anchoring three narrative properties, namely (1) language structure, (2) context, and (3) transferability from/to diverse typological languages. Furthermore, as the use of large language models has increased in recent years, it is crucial to ensure that these models are deployed safely and ethically for the audience. I believe that the aforementioned endeavors constitute a pivotal stride in the direction of accomplishing my research objective, which is to democratize and ensure the safe deployment of NLP technologies.
Prior to commencing my Ph.D. studies, I served as a Data Scientist at NTWIST, an AI startup. Before this, I completed a Master’s degree (M.Tech) in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Hyderabad under the supervision of Prof. K. Narayana Murthy. I obtained a Bachelor’s degree (B.Tech) in Computer Science and Engineering from Uttar Pradesh Technical University. During my Ph.D., I am humbled to receive a Suzuki Foundation Fellowship (two years consecutively) to visit Shizuoka University, Japan for a short research stay.
News
Oct 2023 | I talked about AI Research and My PhD research Experience with Piya on my first PodCast. Thank you, Priya, for the invitation and for being a wonderful host. |
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Oct 2023 | Two papers have been accepted at EMNLP 2023 (Findings and The BigPicture workshop). The Finding paper is authored with the awesome collaborator, Maharaj. |
Jul 2023 | Our paper “Trie-NLG: Trie Context Augmentation to Improve Personalized Query Auto-Completion for Short and Unseen Prefixes” is accepted in the ECML-PKDD 2023 (Journal Track: DAMI). This work is a collaborative effort with Microsoft India, supported by the Microsoft Academic Partnership Grant. |
May 2023 | Our paper “DIVHSK: Diverse Headline Generation using Self-Attention based Keyword Selection” is accepted in the Findings of ACL 2023. |
Sep 2022 | Received a grant of Rs. 100k INR to attend conferences by IIT Hyderabad in Exceptional Research Scholar category. |
Selected Publications
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Q&A, MCQMulti-DecoderLSTM