Tr$^2$AIL: Trust and Transparency in AI through Logic
The
Tr$^2$AIL research group is led by Prof. Somak Aditya. The long-term goal of the lab is to achieve transparent Human-aware AI systems through Logic and Reasoning. We want the AI systems to be able to
reason-in-the-wild and do so transparently for the end-users with whom it is expected to interact. Technically, we will work on the fundamental challenges faced by current neural and probabilistic logical systems in achieving such properties. I am fortunate to be working with a group of passionate
student reserachers and my wonderful
collaborators.
Grant Support
We are grateful to be supported by the following generous organizations:
- SERB DST Startup Research Grant (2021-23) ~ INR 26 Lacs
- IIT Kharagpur Faculty Startup Research Grant (2022-24) ~ INR 25 Lacs
- Toloka AI Annotation Grant ~ USD 300
I am looking for motivated Ph.D students who are interested in pursuing their thesis in the exciting juncture of classical and statistical AI (often dubbed as neuro-symbolic methods). For prospective students, please see answers to FAQs below (to be updated).
Prof. Animesh Mukherjee and I are actively looking for a full-time joint PhD student to work on multi-lingual multi-modal representation and reasoning. Please apply though
here, and send me an email.
FAQs for Propsective Students
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What are the projects that you will be working on?
Here are some broad questions that we are interested in:
- How do we reason transparently? What does it mean to reason transparently?
- How do we reason with noisy and incomplete knowledge sources? Can we utilize semi-structured (or more natural) forms of knowledge representation?
- How do we elicit missing knowledge?
- How can human-in-the-loop help?
See the project page and publications to see how solving such technical challenges may affect a range of applications -- from NLP, Vision, to automated mathematical reasoning.
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Is my expertise right for your lab?
I am happy to welcome students with diverse expertise, ideas and background. But, based on my experience, following expertise seem absolutely essential. First, coding expertise (python mostly) and scripting knowledge (shell script, R is a plus). Being able to figure out your way through installation issues, knowledge about Git, shell scripting, and basic idea about GPUs are important. If you are an IIT-KGP student, make sure you have obtained A or above in PDS theory and Lab. Share a link to your Git repositories. Participation in popular open-source projects is a plus.
Secondly, even if you are not familiar with ML, in-depth understanding of Algorithms, Probability and statistics is important. Knowledge of Logic, ML, DL, traditional NLP (parsing, POS tagging, chunking etc.), linguistics, or traditional image processing is a huge plus.
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How do I contact you?
If you are an IIT KGP student, please send an inquiry to my email. Kindly mention which program you are enrolled in. If you are not a KGP student, kindly visit the IIT Kharagpur website to see how to enroll in the Ph.D or Masters program.
I plan to take 1 or 2 external students who shows proven depth in at least one of the axes (linguistics/ML/DL/CV) through Publications/Courses/olympiads as interns (for one or two semesters). Feel free to email me if that interests you, and you fit the profile.