“Science is not only a discipline of reason but also of passion and love” - Stephen Hawking
Research Interest
Deep Learning, Large Language Models (LLMs), Natural Language Processing (NLP), Vision and Language, Conversational AI, Multimodal Dialog, Visual Dialog
I am particularly interested in Deep Learning and its interdisciplinary applications (V&L). Check out Github for my latest activity.
Fun fact: My Erdős number is 4. See here.
Quick background
Current: MILA | ServiceNow Research | University of Montreal (HEC Montreal).
Advised by: Prof. Chris Pal (MILA, ServiceNow), Dr. Laurent Charlin (MILA) and Dr. Issam Laradji (ServiceNow)
Past: @PulselabsAI | @AdobeResearch | @GSoC | @XRCE | @TrulyMadly | @IITDelhi
Past Research Challenges: Alana @ Alexa Prize Socialbot Challenge’ 18 | Pikabot @ Visual Dialog Challenge’ 18 | NLE @ E2E NLG Challenge’ 17
Bio
My research mostly focuses on visual grounding (symbol grounding) and context modeling (communicative grounding) in multi-modal visual conversational agents. I am interested to build machines that can see and talk. My research interests broadly span multi-modal representation and transfer learning for vision and language problems. Previously I also explored Natural Language Generation for data-to-text and knowledge grounded multi-modal dialog response generation. I was an integral part of Team Alana - finalists to Amazon’s Alexa Prize Socialbot Grand Challenge 2018. My submission was also the runner-up for the Visual Dialog Challenge 2018 (Pikabot) and E2E NLG Challenge 2017 (NLE). I am an active blogger, often contributing to open-source repositories for the democratization of AI. I also co-organized the Workshop on Evaluating NLG Evaluation (EvalNLGEval at INLG’20) and Workshop on Human Evaluation of NLP Systems (HumEval at EACL’21); served on the Program Committee for NeurIPS and ACL workshops; reviewed for NLP/AI conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, COLING), and published at top NLP conferences such as ACL, EACL, EMNLP, INLG, SIGDial.
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