নমস্কার!

Welcome fellow researchers to my website! I hold a Ph.D. in Computer Science. My main areas of research interest are Large Language Models, Multimodal AI, and Natural Language Processing. At present, I work as an assistant professor at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), Singapore. I was also part of the Institute of High-Performance Computing (IHPC), ASTAR as a senior scientist. Before joining SUTD, I worked at NTU where I was awarded the prestigious NTU presidential postdoctoral fellowship.

I am open to collaborations. If you are interested please drop me an email. To know more about my work, please browse the catalog of my publications. You may also visit my Google Scholar profile.

Our lab is called DeCLaRe Lab. We work on different challenging AI problems centered on Large Language Models (LLMs), Multimodal AI, Commonsense Reasoning, and more.

News

Google's Gemma Academic Program Award!

We are thrilled to receive a research grant from Google. Full credits to my student, Rishabh!

New Research Grant from Meta

We are thrilled to receive a research grant from FAIR, Meta! Thank you! Meta.

NAACL 2024

Four papers accepted at NAACL 2024. Congratulations to Ambuj, Deepanway, Siqi, Ambuj, Yingting, Navonil, Wei, and all other collaborators!

New Work on Multimodal Reasoning

Are LLMs good enough to solve algorithmic puzzles? Check out our new work- https://github.com/declare-lab/puzzle-reasoning

New Work on AI safety

Check out our new work- https://github.com/declare-lab/resta

COLING

We got one paper accepted at COLING. Congratulations to all the co-authors!

ICLR, EACL and WWW

We got one paper at ICLR, one at EACL, and one at WWW. Congratulations to all the co-authors!

MIT TR-35 2023 (Asia Pacific)

Excited to be named as one of the 35 innovators under 35 by MIT Technology Review (Asia Pacific)! Very thankful to all my collaborators and students.

Young Scientist Award (YSA) 2023

Excited to be one of the recipients of Singapore's Young Scientist Award! Very thankful to all my collaborators and students.

EMNLP 2023

Four papers accepted at EMNLP 2023. Congratulations to all the co-authors!

IEEE 10 to Watch in AI

Excited to be named as one of IEEE's 2022 edition of 10 to Watch in AI. Thanks to my colleagues and students. Find the complete list here.

IEEE CIS Outstanding Early Career Award

Excited to receive the IEEE CIS Outstanding Early Career Award 2024.

I am thrilled to announce my new role as an editorial board member of IEEE Transactions on Big Data.

We are grateful to ORACLE FOR RESEARCH and HUGGINGFACE for their generous support to the project TANGO.

I am one of the Area Chairs at the Dataset and Benchmark track at Neurips 2023.

EMNLP 2023

I am one of the Senior Area Chairs at the Commonsense Reasoning track at EMNLP 2023.

Interspeech 2023

Two papers accepted at Interspeech 2023. Congratulations to all the collaborators.

ACL 2023

Three papers accepted at ACL 2023. Congratulations to all the collaborators.

Collaboration with Microsoft Research

DeCLaRe Lab is thrilled to announce our selection for the Microsoft Research Accelerate Foundation Models Academic Research program. This program will enable us to contribute to the development of fair and responsible open-source LLMs. We are excited to compare the performance of our models to OpenAI's LLMs, including GPT-4 and ChatGPT. For updates on our progress and developments, please follow our repository at https://github.com/declare-lab/flan-eval.

New Generation Model on Text-to-Audio

Read our work here .

ICASSP 2023

Two papers accepted at ICASSP 2023. Congratulations to all the collaborators.

EACL 2023

Two papers accepted at EACL 2022. Congratulations to all the collaborators.

EMNLP 2022

Five papers accepted at EMNLP 2022. Congratulations to all the collaborators.

New paper alert

Exemplars-guided empathetic response generation controlled by the elements of human communication, IEEE ACCESS. Read Here

New publications

We have four papers accepted by ACL, three papers accepted by COLING, and one paper accepted by ECCV!

Funding

The DeCLaRe lab has been awarded Tier 2 funding by the Ministry of Education (MoE), Singapore. We are grateful to MoE for their generosity. The project will focus on building techniques for Commonsense-aware NLP. Shoutout to the team-- Prof. Rada Mihalcea, Dr. Navonil Majumder, Prof. Alexander Gelbukh, Devamanyu Hazarika, and Deepanway Ghosal without whom it was not possible.

New paper

New paper - Exploring the Role of Context in Utterance-level Emotion, Act and Intent Classification in Conversations: An Empirical Study Read here.

Personal news

I am one of the area chairs of this year's EMNLP, ACL and NeuRIPS.

New paper

New paper on the identifiability of the transformers accepted at ACL 2021! Congratulations Rishabh!

Personal news

Delivered an invited talk at IBM Research, Almaden, USA.

Personal news

Honored to give a keynote talk at MICAI 2020.

Personal news

Honored to give an inivited talk at ICON 2020.

New paper

New paper - Recognizing Emotion Cause in Conversations Read here.

New paper

New paper on Sentiment Analysis - Beneath the Tip of the Iceberg: Current Challenges and New Directions in Sentiment Analysis Research Read here.

Personal News

I will serve EMNLP 2020 as an area chair of the sentiment analysis track.

Personal News

I served ACL 2020 as an area chair of the sentiment analysis track.

Opening

We have a number of openings to join us at the DeCLaRe Lab as postdocs and research assistants/associates. Drop me an email.

Funding

The DeCLaRe lab has been awarded programmatic funding by AME. We are grateful to AME for their generosity. The project will focus on building knowledge graph-based question answering.

Funding

The DeCLaRe lab secured funding from DSO for a project on complex question answering. Thank you, DSO!

New paper

New paper on transfer learning - Hazarika, Devamanyu, Soujanya Poria, Roger Zimmermann, and Rada Mihalcea. "Emotion Recognition in Conversations with Transfer Learning from Generative Conversation Modeling. [Download the paper].