Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and
three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin
Current PhD Students
Current Masters Students
- Aryan Dua (Co-advising with Noha El-Zehiry)
- Prayushi Faldu (Co-advising with Indrajit Bhattacharya)
- Samrajnee Ghosh (Co-advising with Parag Singla)
- Hasan Mustafa (Co-advising with Noha El-Zehiry)
- Si Siddhant Raja (Co-advising with Srikanta Bedathur)
Current Undergrad Students
- Naman Agarwal (Co-advising with Parag Singla)
- Dhruv Ahlawat (Co-advising with N.M. Anoop Krishnan)
- Om Dehlan (Co-advising with Manish Gupta)
- Bhavesh Gurnani
- Hammad Malik (Co-advising with Parag Singla)
- Garv Nagori (Co-advising with Prathosh A.P.)
Previous Post-docs
- Dr. Navdeep
Kaur (Co-advised with Parag Singla). Neuro-Symbolic Approaches
for Knowledge Graph Completion (2023). The Alan Turing Institute,
- Prof. Niranjan
Balasubramanian (Co-advised with Oren Etzioni and Stephen
Soderland). Generating Coherent Event Schemas at Scale (2013). SUNY
Stony Brook.
Graduated PhD Students
- Dinesh Raghu.
Generalisation of End-to-End Task-Oriented Dialog Systems to Unseen Knowledge (2024).
IBM Research.
- Yatin Nandwani
(Co-advised with Parag Singla).
Deep Learning with Output Space Constraints (2024).
IBM Research.
- Keshav Sai Kolluru
(Co-advised with Soumen Chakrabarti).
Neural Methods for Monolingual and Multilingual Open Information Extraction (2023).
KnowDis, Inc.
- Dr. Prachi
Jain (Co-advised with Soumen Chakrabarti).
Language, Structure, Time Aware Knowledge Base Completion (2022).
Microsoft Research.
- Dr. Danish
Contractor (Co-advised with Parag Singla).
QA for Tourism -- Answering Recommendation & Comparison Questions (2021).
IBM Research.
- Dr. Ankit Anand
(Co-advised with Parag Singla).
Symmetry Aware Inference and Decision
Making in Probabilistic Models (2019).
DeepMind Inc.
- Dr. Jonathan Bragg
(Co-advised with Dan Weld).
Self-Improving Crowdsourcing:
Near-Effortless Design of Adaptive Distributed Work (2018).
Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence.
- Dr. Christopher
H. Lin
(Co-advised with Dan Weld).
The Intelligent Management of
Crowd-Powered Machine Learning (2017).
Semantic Machines.
- Dr. Janara
Christensen.
Towards Large Scale
Summarization (2014).
Google Inc.
- Prof. Alan
Ritter
(Co-advised with Oren Etzioni). Extracting Knowledge from Twitter and
The Web (2013).
Georgia Tech University.
- Dr. Andrey
Kolobov (Co-advised with Dan Weld). Scalable Methods and
Expressive Models for Planning Under Uncertainty (2013).
Honorable mention for
ICAPS 2014 Best Dissertation Award.
Microsoft Research.
- Dr. Thomas Lin
(Co-advised with Oren Etzioni). Leveraging Knowledge Bases in Web
Text Processing (2012).
Microsoft Corporation
- Dr. Peng Dai
(Co-advised with Dan Weld). Decision
Making under Uncertainty: Scalability and Applications (2011).
Honorable mention for
ICAPS 2012 Best Dissertation Award.
JD Financial Group Inc.
Graduated MS/MTech Students
- Pranjal
Aggarwal. Efficient Inference and Adaptive Computation in Large
Language Models (2024). Graduate Student, Carnegie Mellon
University.
- Dhruvil
Sheth (Co-advised with N.M. Anoop Krishnan). Natural Language
Processing enabled Composition Extraction from Text of Material Science
Articles (2024). Info Edge India Ltd.
- Jigyasa
Gupta (Co-advised with Rohan Paul). Interleaving Neural Predicate
Inference with Classical Planning for Generalization in Robot
Instruction Following (2023). Samsung R&D Institute.
- Daman
Arora (Co-advised with Parag Singla). Learning Generalized Neural
Policies for Relational Markov Decision Processes (2023). Microsoft
Research.
- Aditya Mohan Mishra (Co-advised with Manish Gupta). Multimodal
Persona Based Generation of Comic Dialogs (2023).
- Chirag
Mohapatra (Co-advised with Prathosh AP). Incorporating Expert
Insights for Multi-Class Cell Detection and Counting (2023).
IITD-CSE Award for Best Hardcore Experimental
Project.
AlphaGrep Securities.
- Tanishq
Gupta (Co-advised with N. M. Anoop Krishnan). Natural Language
Processing enabled Composition Extraction from Materials Tables
(2022). Tower Research Capital.
- Shreya
Sharma (Co-advised with Rohan Paul). Neuro-symbolic Approach to
Inferring Conjunctive Goal Predicates for Robot Instruction
Following (2022).
Suresh Chandra Memorial Award for best
IITD-CSE M.Tech. Project.
Graduate student, Carnegie Mellon University.
- Atishya
Jain Constraint based Knowledge Base Distillation in End-to-End
Task Oriented Dialogs (2021). Tower Research Capital.
- Mayank
Singh Chauhan (Co-advised with Parag Singla). Knowledge Graph
Completion: Extending to Open Graphs and Improving Trust via Post hoc
Explanations (2021). Goldman Sachs.
- Nikhil
Gupta. Knowledge Base Adaptation for
Task Oriented Dialog Systems
(2019).
IITD-CSE Award for Best Hardcore Experimental
Project.
Co-founder, LimeChat.ai
- Gagan Madan (Co-advised with Parag Singla). Block
Value Symmetries in Probabilistic Graphical Models (2018).
IITD-CSE Award for Best Hardcore Experimental
Project.
Google Inc.
- Shivanshu
Gupta. Neural Model for Question Answering on Wikipedia Tables
(2018). Graduate student, University of California, Irvine.
- Bhavesh Sethi
(Co-advised with Parag Singla). Medical Image Analysis using Deep
Learning (2018). Google Inc.
- Tapas
Jain (Co-advised with Parag Singla).
Prost vs. OGA-UCT for Probabilistic Planning
(2017). QE Securities.
- Swarnadeep
Saha. Open IE 5.0 -- Open Information Extraction from Numerical
Sentences and Conjunctive Sentences (2017).
Suresh Chandra Memorial Award for best IITD-CSE M.Tech. Project.
Graduate Student, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
- Karan Goel.
A Framework for Cost-Quality-Time Optimization in Crowdsourcing
(2016). Graduate Student, Stanford University.
- Harinder
Pal.
Extraction from Compound Nouns and Numerical Expressions for Open IE
(2016). Microsoft Corporation.
- Ajay Rathee (Co-advised with Jayadeva).
Analysis of Minimal Complexity Machine and Compressive Sensing in Text
Analytics (2016).
Defense Research and Development Organisation.
- Madhur Gupta.
Knowledge Concept Maps (2016). CitiBank.
- Dr. Sherjil
Ozair.
Domain Adaptation of Word Embeddings (2015). DeepMind, Inc. (PhD, University of Montreal).
- Aman Madaan
(Co-advised with Ganesh Ramakrishnan and Sunita Sarawagi).
Numerical Relation Extraction with Minimal Supervision (2015).
Graduate Student, Carnegie Mellon University.
- Ashish
Mittal (Co-advised with Ganesh Ramakrishnan and Sunita
Sarawagi).
Numerical Relation Extraction with Minimal Supervision (2015).
IBM Research (Graduate student, IIT Bombay).
- Abhishek Yadav.
An Open-IE based Approach for Knowledge-Base Population (2015).
Visa Inc.
- Dan Butler.
Talking about Data: Web Text Can Aid Causal Structure Learning
(2014). Salk Institute.
- Melissa
Winstanley. Exploring Sentence Partitioning for
Multi-Paragraph Multi-Document Summarization (2013). Convoy
Inc.
- Bo Qin (Co-advised with Stephen Soderland). Readability Classifier for
Natural Language Text (2010).
- Dr. Jiun-Hung Chen (Co-advised with Dan Weld). Naive-Bayes POMDPs
(2005). Amazon Inc.
Undergraduate Students Advised
- Aniruddha Deb
(Co-advised with Parag Singla). Zero-Shot Cross Lingual Transfer to
Low-Resource Languages via Self-Supervised Prompting (2024). Optiver
B.V., Amsterdam.
- Vaibhav
Mishra (Co-advised with Prathosh A.P.). Weak Supervision For
Medical Segmentation and Villi Length Measurement from Keypoint
Annotations (2024) Tower Research Capital, USA.
- Chinmay
Mittal (Co-advised with Parag Singla). Large Language Models for
NP-Hard Reasoning Problems (2024). Optiver Services B.V.,
Amsterdam.
- Goonjan
Saha. Dialogue Dataset for Medical History Taking with Detailed Annotations
(2024). Samsung Electronics.
- Riya
Sawhney (Co-advised with Indrajit Bhattacharya). Robust Few-shot
Transfer Learning for Knowledge Base Question Answering with
Unanswerable Questions. Graviton Research Capital.
- Himanshu
Wadhwa (Co-advised with Manish Gupta). Towards Multimodal
Question Answering in Educational Domain (2024). Wells Fargo &
Company.
- Harsh
Agrawal (Co-advised with Manish Gupta). Multimodal Persona based
Generation of Comic Dialogs (2023). Tower Research Capital,
London.
- Apar Ahuja
(Co-advised with Parag Singla). Size Invariance in Neural-ILP
architectures (2023). Alphagrep Securities.
- Mustafa
Chasmai (Co-advised with Rohan Paul). Integrated Symbolic
Sub-Goal Prediction and Action Inference for Generalizable Robot
Instruction following (2023). Graduate student, University of
Massachusetts Amherst.
- Devanshi
Khatsuriya (Co-advised with N. M. Anoop Krishnan). Information
Extraction from Tables in Materials Science Articles (2023).
Google, Inc.
- Ananjan Nandi
(Co-advised with Parag Singla). Augmentation and Ensembling
Techniques for Knowledge Graph Completion (2023). Graduate Student,
Stanford University.
- Kanav
Pruthi (Co-advised with Soumen Chakrabarti). Conversational
Recommendation of Entities using Constrained Generation (2023).
Quantitative Researcher, A.P.T Portfolio.
- Ishaan
Singh. Neuro-Symbolic Temporal Knowledge Graph Completion (2023).
Graviton Research Capital.
- Kartikeya Badola
(Co-advised with Parag Singla). Multilingual Distantly Supervised
Relation Extraction (2022). Google Research, India.
- Anand
Brahmbhatt (Co-advised with Parag Singla). Towards a Fair and
Calibrated Machine Learning Model (2022). Google Research, India.
- Tuhin
Girinath (Co-advised with Pradeep Shenoy). Learning
Interpretable Symbolic Representations by Using Human Policies
(2022). Quadeye Securities.
- Suraj Joshi.
Structural Constraints and Natural Language Inference for End-to-End
Flowchart Grounded Dialog Response Generation (2022). Microsoft
Corporation.
- Shubham Mittal
(Co-advised with Soumen Chakrabarti). Multilingual Open Knowledge
Base Completion (2022). Google, Inc.
- Rishabh Ranjan (Co-advised with Parag Singla). A Solver-free
Framework for Scalable Learning in Neural ILP Architectures (2022).
Suresh Chandra Memorial Award for best
IITD-CSE B.Tech. Project.
Research Associate, Carnegie Mellon University.
- Ananye
Agrawal (Co-advised with Pradeep Shenoy). End-to-End
Neuro-Symbolic Architecture for Image-to-Image Reasoning Tasks (2021).
Suresh Chandra Memorial Award for best
IITD-CSE B.Tech. Project.
Graduate Student, Carnegie Mellon University.
- Abhyuday
Bhartiya. A Multilingual Dataset for Distantly Supervised
Relation Extraction (2021). Tower Research Capital.
- Nisarg
Bhatt (Co-advised with Prathosh AP). Histopathological Image
Analysis & Pretext Task Based Semi-supervised Learning (2021).
AlphaGrep Securities.
- Vidit Jain
(Co-advised with Parag Singla). Neural Models for Domain-Size
Invariance in Lifted CSPs (2021). Microsoft Research.
- Pratheek
D'Souza Rebello (Co-advised with Parag Singla). Unification of
Weak Supervision (2021). AlphaGrep Securities.
- Harkanwar
Singh (Co-advised with Soumen Chakrabarti). Multilingual
Knowledge Graph Completion with Joint Relation and Entity Alignment
(2021). Quadeye Securities.
- Samarth
Aggarwal (Co-advised with Soumen Chakrabarti). Neural
Architectures and Evaluation Protocols for Open Information Extraction
(2020). Graduate student, University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign.
- Rajas Bansal
(Co-advised with Rohan Paul). Human-Guided Acquisition of
Commonsense Knowledge for Robot Task Execution: An Imitation Learning
Approach (2020). Graduate Student, Stanford University.
- Sankalan Pal
Chowdhury (Co-advised with Parag Singla, Prathosh AP). Masked
Adversarial Auto-Encoder and An Analysis of LSTM
Gradients (2020). Graviton Research Capital LLP.
- Sankalp
Garg. Generalized Neural Policies for Relational MDPs (2020).
Graduate student, Carnegie Mellon University.
- Shashank
Goel (Co-advised with Parag Singla). Joint Spatio-Textual
Reasoning for Answering Tourism Questions (2020). Graduate Student, University of California, Los Angeles.
- Ujjwal
Gupta (Co-advised with Parag Singla). Open Knowledge Graphs for
Improved Coverage in Multi-Document Extractive Summarization (2020).
Google, Inc.
- Deepanshu
Jindal (Co-advised with Parag Singla). Learning One-of-Many
Solutions for Combinatorial Problems in Structured Output Spaces (2020).
Tower Research Capital.
- Pratyush Maini.
Analyzing the Learnability and Representability of
Recurrent Architectures (2020)
Graduate student, Carnegie Mellon University.
- Sushant Rathi (Co-advised with Soumen Chakrabarti). Temporal
Knowledge Base Completion: New Algorithms and Evaluation Protocols
(2020).
Suresh Chandra Memorial Award for best
IITD-CSE B.Tech. Project.
Tower Research Capital.
- Shreshth Tuli (Co-advised with Rohan Paul). Human-Guided
Acquisition of Commonsense Knowledge for Robot Task Execution: An
Imitation Learning Approach (2020). Graduate Student,
Imperial College London.
- Aman
Agrawal (Co-advised with Parag Singla). Explaining Knowledge
Base Inferences (2019). Google, Inc.
- Ankesh Gupta
(Co-advised with Parag Singla). Explaining Knowledge
Base Inferences (2019). Tower Research Capital.
- Sangnie Bhardwaj.
A Crowdsourced Benchmark for Open IE (2019). AI Resident, Google,
Inc.
- Mukund
Mundhra (Co-advised with Soumen Chakrabarti). Explorations in
Knowledge Base Inference (2019).
Graduate Student, University of California, Los Angeles.
- Abhishek
Pathak (Co-advised with Parag Singla). Primal-Dual Formulation
for Deep Learning with Constraints (2019).
Graduate Student, Carnegie Mellon University.
- Krunal Shah
(Co-advised with Parag Singla). Question Answering on Recommendation
Questions (2019). Graduate Student, University of Pennsylvania.
- Aniket
Bajpai. Transfer of Deep Reactive Policies for MDP Planning
(2018). Co-founder, Konscience.
- Pankaj
Kumar (Co-advised with Soumen Chakrabarti). Type-Sensitive
Knowledge Base Inference Without Explicit Type Supervision (2018).
Rubrik, Inc.
- Sansiddh Jain (Co-advised with Nomesh Bolia).
Data Driven Legal Reforms (2018). Wadhwani AI.
- Mayank
Sharan (Co-advised with Nomesh Bolia). Analysis of Indian Legal
Dataset (2018). Graduate Student, University of California, San
Diego.
- Aditi
Partap (Co-advised with Parag Singla). Deep Learning for
Recommendation Question Answering (2018). Graduate Student, Stanford
University.
- Haroun Habeeb
(Co-advised with Parag Singla).
Coarse to Fine Lifted MAP Inference for Computer Vision
(2017).
IITD-CSE Award for Best Hardcore Experimental
Project.
Facebook Inc. (M.S., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign).
- Surag Nair.
Periodic Event Extraction from Unstructured Text
(2017).
Graduate Student, Stanford University.
- Barun Patra
(Co-advised with Parag Singla).
Understanding And Answering Multi-sentence Recommendation Questions on Tourism
(2017).
Suresh Chandra Memorial Award for best
IITD-CSE B.Tech. Project. Microsoft Inc.
(M.S., Carnegie Mellon University).
- J. Shikhar Murty
(Co-advised with Soumen Chakrabarti).
Inference over Knowledge Bases
(2017).
Graduate Student, Stanford University.
- Poojan Mehta (Co-advised with Parag Singla).
Novel Query Representation of Travel-related Forum Questions
(2016). Delvega Capital, Inc.
- Dr. Ritesh Noothigattu
(Co-advised with Parag Singla).
On-The-Go Abstractions in UCT for MDP Planning
(2016).
Suresh Chandra Memorial Award for best
IITD-CSE B.Tech. Project. Hudson River Trading Inc.
(Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University).
- Shreya Rajpal.
A Framework for Cost-Quality-Time Optimization in Crowdsourcing
(2016). Apple, Inc. (M.S., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign).
- Prof. Aditya Grover (Co-advised
with Parag Singla). A Unified
Abstraction Framework for Sequential
Decision Making (2015).
IITD-CSE Award for Best Hardcore Experimental
Project.
University of California, Los Angeles (PhD, Stanford University).
- Gagan Bansal.
Multi-paragraph Summarization
(2015). Graduate Student, University of Washington, Seattle.
- Shashank Jain.
Value of Contribution in Micro-Crowdsourcing
(2015). Google Inc.
- Benjamin
Sidhom. Student Modeling in Educational Environments
(2013). DataBricks, Inc.
- Ryan Oman.
Integrating Coreference Resolution with ReVerb/R2A2 (2011). Forward, Inc.
- Brendan
Roof (Co-advised with Stephen Soderland). Finding and Applying
Relational Nouns (2010). Allen Institute for Artificial
Intelligence.
- Benjamin Lee. Extending PanDictionary (2009). Google Inc.
- Michael Skinner
(Co-advised with Stephen Soderland). Compiling a Panlingual
Dictionary (2008). Founder, +364.
Previous Research Developers
- Harshvardhan
Srivastava (Co-advised with Soumen Chakrabarti). Conversational Recommendation of Entities using Constrained Generation (2023). Graduate Student, Columbia University, New York.
- Rocktim
Jyoti Das. Goal-oriented Dialog with Large Language Models
(2023). Research Assistant, Mohamed bin Zayed University of
Artificial Intelligence, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
- Muqeeth
Mohammed (Co-advised with Soumen Chakarbarti). Multilingual Open
Information Extraction (2021). Graduate Student, University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill.
- Shantanu
Agarwal. Flowchart Grounded Task Oriented Dialog (2021).
Graduate Student, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
- Vaibhav Adlakha
(Co-advised with Srikanta Bedathur). Knowledge Base Inference for Regular Expression Queries
(2020). Graduate Student, MILA, McGill University.
- Bhadra Mani.
Speeding Up Open IE 4
(2015). Altruista Health.