• 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.
• 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.
• Oct 2023 My application for in-person IndoML 2023 (held at IIT Bombay) travel grant is accepted.
• Sept 2023: Delivered an invited talk on Meta-Learning for Low-resource Language Generation at NLP Research Team, Google Research India
• Sept 2023: Attended the ECML-PKDD 2023 conference in-person in Italy, Torino.
• Aug 2023: Delivered an invited talk on Large Language Models and Responsible Text Generation as an alumnus at the SCIS seminar series, University of Hyderabad.
• July 2023: Attended summer school at University of Oxford virtually.
• July 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 collaborative effort with Microsoft India is supported by the Microsoft Academic Partnership Grant.
• June 2023: Delivered an invited talk on Hype to Reality: Responsible Text Generation with Large Language Models at the CSE seminar series, IIT Hyderabad.
• May 2023: Reached a milestone in my academic career by attaining 50 citations on Google Scholar.
• May 2023: Our paper “DivHSK: Diverse Headline Generation using Self-Attention based Keyword Selection” is accepted in the Findings of ACL 2023.
• May 2023: Delivered an invited talk on Introduction to AI at KG reddy college at Hyderabad hosted by Swechha Foundation (NGO).
• March 2023: Selected for research lighting talk at IIT Hyderabad on Research Scholar Day 2023.
• Feb 2023: My application for in-person summer school at University of Oxford is accepted.
• Dec 2022: Served as a lead volunteer to manage a hybrid/virtual platform at the ACML conference held in Hyderabad, India.
• Nov 2022: Selected as lead volunteer at EMNLP 2022 conference.
• Sept 2022: Received a grant of Rs. 100k INR to attend conferences by IIT Hyderabad in Exceptional Research Scholar category.
• July 2022: Received this year research internship offer from Microsoft R&D. I will be working with Microsoft Translate Team.
• June 2022: Post Conference travel grant from ACL. Grateful to ACL.
• May 2022: Attended ACL 2022 conference In-Person at Dublin, Ireland.
• May 2022: Our ACL 2022 paper “Meta-XNLG: A Meta-Learning Approach Based on Language Clustering for Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Transfer and Generation” is recognized as premier paper from India by IKDD-ACM India.
• April 2022: Delivered an invited talk (as an alumnus) on the “Introduction to Deep Learning through the lens of NLP” at SCIS, University of Hyderabad.
• April 2022: Received Microsoft and ACL Travel Grant to attend ACL 2022 conference physically, Dublin Ireland.
• March 2022: The extended Information Retrieval course project “Hostility Detection in Online Hindi-English code-mixed Conversations” by Kamal and Aditi (mentored by me) is accepted in WebSci 2022 conference as a long paper.
• March 2022: Our ACL 2021 paper “ZmBART: An Unsupervised Cross-lingual Transfer Framework for Language Generation” is recognized as premier paper from India by IKDD-ACM India.
• Feb 2022: Our paper “Meta-XNLG: A Meta-Learning Approach Based on Language Clustering for Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Transfer and Generation” is accepted in the Findings of ACL 2022.
• Feb 2022: Appointed as Technical Advisor in a Legal Domain AI startups Lending Katalyst.
• Dec 2021: Received Student Travel Grant, CODS-COMAD 2022
• Nov 2021: Delivered an invited talk on the “Introduction to Deep Learning for NLP” at SVECW college, Bhimavaram, AP, India (100+ participants).
• Oct 2021: Officially ARR-ACL 2022 reviewer.
• Aug 2021: I will serving as Program Committee Member of AAAI-2022.
• July 2021: Started next one-year collaborative work with Microsoft BING Research (Autosuggest Team) under the Microsoft Academic Grant.
• June 2021: My application for fully-funded Oxford University ML Summer School 2021 is accepted.
• May 2021: Our paper “ZmBART: An Unsupervised Cross-lingual Transfer Framework for Language Generation” is accepted in the Findings of ACL 2021.
• April 2021: Received three internship offer this summer (Microsoft India (R&D), IBM Research Lab, and Goldman Sachs Research Lab). I will join Microsoft India (R&D) as the internship, and my Ph.D. theme aligns.
• April 2021: Featured in IITH college magazine for receiving joint best departmental poster presentation along with Sriram at Research Scholar Day 2021
• Feb 2021: Received Suzuki foundation fellowship 2021. Second year consecutively.
• Jan 2021: [Shared task best paper honorable mention] has been awarded to “Coarse and Fine-Grained Hostility Detection in Hindi Posts using Fine Tuned Multilingual Embeddings,” which was accepted in the CONSTRAINT workshop of AAAI 2021. This paper was based on an information retrieval course project that I mentored. Congratulations to Arkadipta De and Venkatesh E.
• Dec 2020: Delivered an invited talk on the “Introduction to RNN - Data Processing and Text Classification” in Two-week online AICTE sponsored Faculty Development Program on “Data Science using Python” organized by Shri VECW, Bhimavaram, India. Received a certificate of appreciation for the same.
• Oct 2020: Presented our accepted work at CIKM’20 conference.
• Oct 2020: Delivered an invited talk on “Learning to Distract: Generation of incorrect options from Reading Comprehension MCQ” in ACM- IITH student chapter.
• Oct 2020: Received Student travel gran from CIKM’20 (ACM-SIGIR) and ACM-India for presenting my work at the CIKM’20 conference.
• Aug 2020: Successfully converted as Senior Research Fellow (SRF) at CSE-IITH
• July 2020: Acted as a secondary reviewer along with Samujjwal for EMNLP 2020.
• July 2020: Our paper entitled “Learning to Distract: A Hierarchical Multi-Decoder Network for Automated Generation of Long Distractors for Multiple-Choice Questions for Reading Comprehension”_ is accepted in CIKM 2020.
• May 2020: Started the next six months (May’20 - Oct 20) collaboration with Nvidia Research on Cross-lingual generation.
• Jan 2020: Received 2020 Suzuki Foundation Scholarship Grant. As a part of this award, I will visit Shizuoka University, Japan, for a short research stay.