Teaching/Mentoring Experience
Teaching
List of Courses Taught (at IIT Kharagpur)
- Spring 2022, Information Retreival (Website)
- Spring 2022, Deep Learning (for PGDBA, with Prof. Sudeshna Sarkar)
- Spring 2022, Programming and Data Structures Lab
- Autumn 2022, Programmaing and Data Structures Theory (Website)
- Autumn 2022, Programming and Data Structures Lab
- Spring 2023, Information Retreival (Website)
- Spring 2023, Programming and Data Structures Lab
- Autumn 2023, Machine Learning (Website, with Prof. Sudeshna Sarkar)
- Autumn 2023, Programming and Data Structures Lab
Teaching Assistant Duties:
- CSE-576 Natural Language Processing, Fall 2015 and Fall 2016
- Responsibilities included: Creating Homework assignments, proposing class projects, and mentoring multiple groups, delivering advanced topic lectures.
- CSE-471 Introduction To Artificial Intelligence, Spring 2016
- CSE-310 Data Structures and Algorithms, Spring 2015
Mentoring (Post Ph.D)
- (2023-Present) Swarup Padhi: LLM and Numeric, Pursuing BTech Thesis
- (2023-Present) Daivik Agarwal: 3D Spatial Reasoning, Pursuing BTech Thesis
- (2023-Present) Shreyas Jena: Counterfactual Video QA, Pursuing BTech Thesis
- (2023-Present) Aditya Soni: LLM and Bacjdoor attacks, Pursuing BTech Thesis
- (2023-Present) Debrup Das: LLM and Mathematical Reasoning, Pursuing MTech Thesis
- (2022-Present) Sachin Vashishtha: NeuroSymbolic NLP, Jailbreaks and LLM, LLM and Reasoning, Pursuing PhD, PMRF Fellow
- (2022) Vivek Karde: Analyzing Effects of Singlehop Entailments on CrossLingual NLI, MTech Degree Awarded
- (2021-23) Atharva Naik: Code Search/Retrieval , Jailbreak and LLMs, Presently MS Student CMU
- (2021) Ishan Tarunesh: CheckList NLI
- (2021) Karthikeyan K: Multi-lingual extension of TaxiNLI (TaxiXNLI; Primary Mentor: Monojit Choudhury; at Duke U.)
- (2021) Vishesh Agarwal: Polynomial Simplification (Primary Mentor: Navin Goyal)
- (2020-21) Aalok Sathe: TaxiNLI and TaxiXNLI (at MIT BCS)
- (2020) Pratik Joshi: TaxiNLI: Taking a ride up the NLU Hill. (at CMU LTI)
- (2019) Pranil Joshi (IIT-B), Abhinav Mishra (IIT-G), Bhavy Khatri (IIT-K): Knowledge-sharing between Cross-domain Agents
- Mentored with Kushal Chawla (USC), Sharmila Nangi Reddy
- (Feb 2020) Patent filed USPTO. Status pending.
Mentoring (During Ph.D)
- Rudra Saha (2017 – 2018), Graduated, MS Student, Computer Science, ASU, Currently Researcher@Verisk
- Spatial Knowledge Distillation to aid Visual Reasoning
- Thesis: Multimodal Representation Learning for Visual Reasoning and Text-to-Image Translation
- Divyanshu Bandil(2016 – 2017), Graduated MS Student, Computer Engineering.
- Visual Question Categorization. Visual Question Answering in Dynamic Environments
- Trideep Rath (2015 – 2017), Graduated, MS, Computer Science, ASU. Currently Data Scientist, Kayak
Somak Aditya
Assistant Professor
My research interests include integrating knowledge and enabling higher-order reasoning in AI.