Vaibhav Kumar

I am an Applied Scientist at Amazon Alexa AI.

Before this, I obtained a Masters in Language Technologies within the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. I worked with Prof. Jamie Callan on Conversational Search. Prior to joining CMU, I was a student at International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad. I was a Dual Degree Student pursuing a B.Tech in Computer Science and MS by Research in Computational Linguistics. I was a part of the Language Technologies Research Center and was advised by Prof. Vasudeva Varma and co-advised by Dr. Manish Gupta. During that time I worked on various aspects of Computational Journalism. I also worked a bit on translation. During this, I co-founded a startup Ping with three other members.

My Research Interests (broader) lie in Information Retrieval and Natural Language Understanding. I am also interested in Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing.

At the moment I have an Erdos Number of 5.

A Quote by Me : “From the R to the S” (decrypt it if you can)

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  • Paper accepted at EMNLP 2020 (Findings) !! Will be releasing it soon.
  • Paper accepted at CIKM 2020 !!. Will be releasing it soon.
  • Paper accepted at SIGIR 2020 !!
  • Paper accepted at ACL 2020. Will be releasing it soon !!
  • Serving as a PC Member for ECIR 2020
  • Served as a PC Member for ECIR 2019