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⭐️ [July 2023] !NEW! ♨️ ♨️ Started as Visiting Researcher at ElementAI ServiceNow Research, Montreal, Canada
⭐️ [June 2023] ♨️ ♨️ Started working as Postdoctoral Researcher at MILA, Quebec, Canada. Also affiliated to HEC Montreal (University of Montreal's B-school)
[Sept 2021] Awarded the PhD Degree! Wohooo!
[July 2021] Started working as Research Scientist at PulseLabs remotely
[June 2021] I am reviewing for ICLR'23, NeurIPS'23, DSTC11'23, NeurIPS'22, ICML'22, ICLR'22, ICLR'21, NeurIPS'21, ACL'21, EMNLP'21, EACL'21, DSTC9'21 (AAAI'21), NeurIPS'20 (WS), ACL'20 demo, COLING'20, INLG'20 (WS), IJCAI'20, HAI'20.
[May 2021] Successfully defended my PhD Thesis!
[Apr 2021] We are organizing the shared task on the Reproducibility of Human Evaluations in NLG at INLG'21. Link for ReproGen'21
[Apr 2021] Our review on Reproducibility Research in NLP has been accepted at EACL'21.
[Apr 2021] We are organizing the Workshop on Human Evaluation of NLP Systems at EACL'21.
[Oct 2020] Serving on Program Committee for NeurIPS'20 workshops Human in the Loop (HLDS) and Wordplay.
[Oct 2020] Our proposal for ReproGen shared task accepted at INLG'20.
[Sept 2020] We are organizing 1st Workshop on Evaluating NLG Evaluation (EvalNLGEval) at INLG'20
[July 2020] I will be presenting our work at Virutal ACL 2020. 1 paper accepted at ACL 2020
[June 2020] I am doing another remote intern at Adobe Research
[Nov 2019] Another proposal for Adobe gift funding ($7k) accepted
[Sept 2019] Proposal for Adobe gift funding ($5k) accepted
[May 2019] I'll be starting my research intern at Adobe Research, San Jose, CA, US.
[Nov 2018] I am attending Amazon AWS Summit'18 in Las Vegas. Team Alana places third at Amazon Alexa Prize Challenge'18. Wohoo
[Nov 2018] I’ll be attending INLG'18 2018 in Tilburg, The Netherlands. 2 papers accepted as poster presentations in INLG 2018.
[Oct 2018] I’ll be attending EMNLP 2018 to present my work at SCAI-EMNLP'18 .
[Sept 2018] I’ll be attending ECCV 2018. Team Pikabot among top-3 teams at Visual Dialog Challenge in SiVL, ECCV 2018 .
⭐️ [June 2023] ♨️ ♨️ Started working as Postdoctoral Researcher at MILA, Quebec, Canada. Also affiliated to HEC Montreal (University of Montreal's B-school)
[Sept 2021] Awarded the PhD Degree! Wohooo!
[July 2021] Started working as Research Scientist at PulseLabs remotely
[June 2021] I am reviewing for ICLR'23, NeurIPS'23, DSTC11'23, NeurIPS'22, ICML'22, ICLR'22, ICLR'21, NeurIPS'21, ACL'21, EMNLP'21, EACL'21, DSTC9'21 (AAAI'21), NeurIPS'20 (WS), ACL'20 demo, COLING'20, INLG'20 (WS), IJCAI'20, HAI'20.
[May 2021] Successfully defended my PhD Thesis!
[Apr 2021] We are organizing the shared task on the Reproducibility of Human Evaluations in NLG at INLG'21. Link for ReproGen'21
[Apr 2021] Our review on Reproducibility Research in NLP has been accepted at EACL'21.
[Apr 2021] We are organizing the Workshop on Human Evaluation of NLP Systems at EACL'21.
[Oct 2020] Serving on Program Committee for NeurIPS'20 workshops Human in the Loop (HLDS) and Wordplay.
[Oct 2020] Our proposal for ReproGen shared task accepted at INLG'20.
[Sept 2020] We are organizing 1st Workshop on Evaluating NLG Evaluation (EvalNLGEval) at INLG'20
[July 2020] I will be presenting our work at Virutal ACL 2020. 1 paper accepted at ACL 2020
[June 2020] I am doing another remote intern at Adobe Research
[Nov 2019] Another proposal for Adobe gift funding ($7k) accepted
[Sept 2019] Proposal for Adobe gift funding ($5k) accepted
[May 2019] I'll be starting my research intern at Adobe Research, San Jose, CA, US.
[Nov 2018] I am attending Amazon AWS Summit'18 in Las Vegas. Team Alana places third at Amazon Alexa Prize Challenge'18. Wohoo
[Nov 2018] I’ll be attending INLG'18 2018 in Tilburg, The Netherlands. 2 papers accepted as poster presentations in INLG 2018.
[Oct 2018] I’ll be attending EMNLP 2018 to present my work at SCAI-EMNLP'18 .
[Sept 2018] I’ll be attending ECCV 2018. Team Pikabot among top-3 teams at Visual Dialog Challenge in SiVL, ECCV 2018 .
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