[Sep 2023] AACL-IJCNLP 2023: Two Long papers accepted in Main Conference: 1) SYNC: A Structurally guided Hard Negative Curricula for Efficient Neural Code Search (with Atharva Naik, Soumitra Das, Jyothi Vedurada), 2) Prover: Generating Intermediate Steps for NLI with Commonsense Knowledge Retrieval and Next-Step Prediction (with Deepanway Ghosal, Monojit Choudhury). Stay tuned for code and preprints!
[Aug 2023] LREV 2023: LREV Journal on Logical NLI dataset accepted with Ishan Tarunesh and Monojit Choudhury (Updated preprint soon).
[Jul 2023] CS60050: NO DIRECT EMAILS FOR COURSE REGISTRATION WILL BE ENTERTAINED. They may be spammed or even reported.
[Jun 2023] EMNLP 2023: Invited as an Area Chair.
[Jun 2023] AAAI 2024: Invited as a Senior PC member for the second time.
[May 2023] Microsoft: Received the "Accelerate Foundation Models Academic Research" 2023 by Microsoft jointly with Prof. Animesh Mukherjee. This comes with large Azure credits and OpenAI API access.
[May 2023] ACL 2023: Our work on "A Robust Information-Masking Approach for Domain Counterfactual Generation" with Prof. Soujanya Poria, Pengfei Hong, Rishabh Bhardwaj, and Navonil Majumdar. Full credit goes to my co-authors!!!
[Apr 2023] Ashoka: I was invited to give a talk at Ashoka University for the AI@Ashoka Workshop. The talk slides are available here: AI Progress & Hype under the lens of Reasoning (PDF 14.0 MB size).
[Mar 2023] CS60092 COURSE UPDATE: Recording of GUEST LECTURE BY Dr. Anirudh Kembhavi, Director of Computer Vision at Allen Institute for AI (AI2) is available here.
[Jan 2023] Toloka AI Grant: Received the Toloka AI Annotation Grant of USD 300 for data creation in the Toloka AI platform. Thanks Toloka AI!
[Jan 2023] IIT KGP FSRG: Received the FSRG Grant aproval from IIT Kharagpur on "The Role of Feedback in Vision-Language enabled Embodied Agents towards Application to Disaster Management"!
[Jan 2023] USPTO: Second patent granted (filed during Adobe Research) on Marketing Knowledge Graph Creation! Congratulations to my co-author (/co-inventor) Dr. Atanu Sinha!
[Jan 2023] CS60092 COURSE UPDATE: INVITED GUEST LECTURE BY Dr. Anirudh Kembhavi, Director of Computer Vision at Allen Institute for AI (AI2) on MARCH 13, MONDAY confirmed!!
[Dec 2022] IndoML 2022: My invited talk on "The Relevance of Representation and Reasoning in the era of (Large) Language Models" is available here.
[Sep 2022] AACL-IJCNLP 2022: Two papers accepted. "Multilingual CheckList: Generation and Evaluation" in AACL Findings and "Vector Space Interpolation for Query Expansion" as a short paper. Kudos to the all my co-authors! Stay tuned for preprints.
[Sep 2022] SERB DST: Startup Research Grant on "Learning from Rules and Data for Image Analytics" got Approved!
[Aug 2022] New Prerpint: Generating Intermediate Steps for NLI with Next-Step Supervision. We show how intermediate steps/proof tree can help. The work is under review. Code and website to be public soon.
[Jul 2022] AAAI 2023: Honored to be serving as a Senior PC member for AAAI 2023!
[Apr 2022] I was promoted to Assistant Professor Grade-I (effective from Nov 29, 2021).
[Feb 2022] Rakuten Institute of Technology: Invited Talk on "Evolution of Representation and Reasoning in the era of Deep Learning".
[Jan 2022] Google India: USD 5K Google Cloud Credits Award.
[Dec 2021] MSR India SNLP Group: Invited End-of-Postdoc Talk..
[Nov 2021] IIT KGP: Joined IIT KGP as Assistant Professor.
[Oct 2021] AAAI 2022 (Demo): LITMUS Predictor: An AI Assistant for Building Reliable, High-performing and Fair Multilingual NLP Systems accepted in AAAI 2022 Demonstrations track (joint work with the Speech and NLP group at MSR India).
[Oct 2021] IndoML 2021: IndoML Datathon registration is open for students. Lucrative cash prize, and a series of exciting talks by thought leaders in ML/NLP awaits you! So go forth and register.
[Oct 2021] EMNLP 2021 (MRL Workshop): TaxiXNLI dataset released publicly!
[Sep 2021] EMNLP 2021 (MRL workshop): Work on "Analyzing the Effects of Reasoning Types on Cross-Lingual Transfer Performance" accepted, with co-authors Karthikeyan K, Aalok Sathe and Monojit Choudhury.
[Aug 2021] MILA Philosophy of NLP Reading Group: Invited as a speaker.
[Aug 2021] IndoML 2021: Invited to be a part of the organizing committee (specifically datathon@IndoML). See IndoML 2020 for reference.
[Aug 2021] NeurIPS-2021 MathAI4ED: Invited as a PC member.
[Aug 2021] Invited Lecture at IEEE SPS Deep Learning Summer School on "The Interplay between Deep Learning, Logic, and Reasoning"
[Jun 2021] CIKM 2021: Workshop CfP for "Knowledge Injection in Neural Networks" is now public! Please consider submitting!!
[Jun 2021] Seminar at IIT-Hyderabad CSE on "Explicit Knowledge and Reasoning in the era of Deep Learning"
[May 2021] Seminar at IIT-Kharagpur CSE on "Explicit Knowledge and Reasoning in the era of Deep Learning".
[May 2021] Seminar at IIT-Kharagpur Center for AI on "Explicit Knowledge and Reasoning in the era of Deep Learning".
[Mar 2021] ICLR 2021 (MathAI workshop): Work on "Analyzing The Nuances of Transformers' Polynomial Simplification Abilities" accepted, with co-authors Vishesh Agarwal, and Navin Goyal.
[Mar 2021] IJCAI 2021: Workshop CfP for "Is Neuro-symbolic SOTA still a myth for NLI" is now public! Please consider submitting!!
[Mar 2021] IJCAI 2021: Workshop proposoal on "Is Neuro-symbolic SOTA still a myth for NLI" accepted with co-organizers Maria Chang, Swarat Chaudhuri, Monojit Choudhury, and Sebastijan Dumancic.
[Mar 2021] ICLR 2021 (MathAI workshop): Invited as PC member.
[Dec 2020] ACL-IJCNLP-2021: Invited as PC member.
[Nov 2020] CoNLL 2020: Our pre-recorded talk on TaxiNLI is online. Hope you enjoy (modulo my lack of expressions :))!
[Oct 2020] NAACL-2021: Invited as PC Member.
[Oct 2020] CoNLL-2020: TaxiNLI dataset released publicly!
[Sep 2020] CoNLL-2020: TaxiNLI: Taking a ride up the NLU Hill accepted at CoNLL.
[Aug 2020] EACL-2021: Invited as PC Member.
[Mar 2020] EMNLP-20: Invited as PC Member.
[Mar 2020] LANTERN@COLING-20: Invited as PC Member.
[Feb 2020] Joined MSR India as a Postdoc Researcher.
[Jan 2020] ACL-20: Invited as PC Member.
[Dec 2019] USPTO: "Knowledge-sharing between cross-domain Agents" work approved internally to be filed..
[Dec 2019] AAAI-20: "Uncovering Relations for Marketing Knowledge Representation" accepted in StarAI workshop full paper.
[Dec 2019] IJCAI-20: Invited as PC Member.
[Oct 2019] AAAI-20: Exploratory Navigation and Selective Readoing got accepted as AAAI demo.
[Sep 2019] Adobe News: Knowledge Graph Research appears in Adobe News !
[Aug 2019] AAAI-20: Invited as an AAAI 2020 PC Member!
[Aug 2019] IJCAI-19: Invited as an IJCAI DC Career Panelist!
[Aug 2019] IJCAI-19: Our work on Integrating Knowledge and Reasoning in Image Understanding" got accepted in IJCAI 2019 Survey!
[May 2019] USPTO: First patent on Marketing Knowledge Graph Creation approved!
[Nov 2018] WACV-19: Our work on "Spatial Knowledge Distillation on Visual Reasoning" got accepted in WACV 2019!
[Oct 2018] KR-19: We had a successful workshop filled with intersting talks from researchers from University of Leeds, IBM Research US, University of Adelaide and Army Research Lab. Their talks are avaibale at: .
[Aug 2018] My doctoral dissertation is now publicly available for download in the ASU Digital Repostory.
[Aug 2018] UAI-18: We presented this poster for "Combining Knowledge and Reasoning through Probabilistic Soft Logic for Image Puzzle Solving" in UAI 2018.
[June 2018] Successfully defended my thesis. My slides are available on dropbox.
[June 2018] Published the Image Riddles code for public use that was used in UAI-18 work. Visit Github.
[June 2018] Published the PSL engine code for public use that was used in AAAI-18 work. Visit Github.
[May 2018] UAI-18: Our paper on Image Riddles is accepted in UAI 2018 (30% acceptance rate).
[May 2018] Invited as a reviewer in Robotics and Autonomus Systems journal.
[May 2018] Our Website for KR-2018 workshop is live! Please consider submitting to the workshop.
[Mar 2018] We are organizing the first workshop on "Induce and Deduce: Integrating learning of representations and models with deductive, explainable reasoning that leverages knowledge" in KR 2018 (Phoenix, 27-29 Oct). Website coming soon!
[Mar 2018] I am awarded the University Graduate Fellowship for Spring 2018 for the third time. Thank you ASU, CIDSE!
[Feb 2018] AAAI-18: Presented our work on "Explicit Reasoning over End-to-End Neural Architectures" in AAAI 2018.
[Jan 2018] ASU SW Robotics Symposium-18: Presented our work on "Explicit Reasoning over End-to-End Neural Architectures" in ASU SouthWest Robotics Symposium. The work was nominated for Best Abstract award.
[Dec 2017] CVIU-17: Our accepted manuscript in CVIU is now available online: "Image Understanding using Vision and Reasoning through Scene Description Graph"
[Dec 2017] CVIU-17: Our work "Image Understanding using Vision and Reasoning through Scene Description Graph" has been accepted in the reputed Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU) journal.
[Nov 2017] Our Work on Explicit Reasoning over End-To-End Neural Architectures has been accepted in AAAI 2018 (Acceptance Rate: 24.5%, 933 accepted out of 3.8k).
[Nov 2017] Vision and Reasoning Website is live.
[Oct 2017] Invited as a reviewer for The Visual Computer journal.
[July 2017] Work on Image Riddles accepted as Extended Abstract on Vision Meets Cognition Workshop, CVPR 2017.
[May 2017] Thesis proposal accepted, and officially advanced to candidacy.
[May 2017] Joined JDE, Verisk Analytics as Cognitive Analytics and Machine Learning Research Intern, under Dr. Maneesh Singh, Director, JDE, Cognitive Analytics.
[May 2017] Unofficially a Ph.D. Candidate, after successfully defending my proposal on "Knowledge and Reasoning in Image Understanding".
[May 2017] Invited as a review-assistant for IJCAI 2017.
[March 2017] Awarded University Graduate Fellowship for Spring 2017 from ASU, for the third time.
[Feb 2017] Attended AAAI-2017 (DC and the main Conference). Great to know that people are interested in Vision and Reasoning approaches. Here is the poster I presented at the main conference.