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It is so heartening to see a good no. of ex- and current students/collaborators at EMNLP 2025, almost all with a paper at the conference. Had a spirited discussion about best practices in the field. Also, 4 papers from my own group which will be presented today and tomorrow.

And my ex-students (across 15 years) got together for a quick lunch at #NeurIPS2023! Always great to see students doing so well :)

A marathon 3 hour dinner at #NeurIPS2023. Many postdocs/PhD students interested in AI faculty positions in India got together to discuss job opportunities, issues, benefits, drawbacks of being a professor in India. Hope I convinced at least a few of them apply to IITs soon 😀

Great to see many familiar faces at #aaai2024.

Cool Rao-isms interspersed throughout this tutorial. Some I caught: "LLMs don't sometimes hallucinate. They _always_ hallucinate". "Creativity and truth-telling are at natural odds with each other.", "Civilization tries its best not to use System 2, ever!".. and more :)

My takeaways from amazing panel. 1) is reasoning just iterated pattern matching? 2) don’t conflate form with content, 3) message may no longer be more important than messenger, 4) alignment must be for society, not CS folks, nd 5) jobs that need human experience still important.

Another dinner, this time at #AAAI2024, where Balaraman Ravindran and I discussed challenges and opportunities with academic jobs in India. Lets hope many of these young folks apply to Indian academia in the next couple of years.

Congrats to Dr Yatin Nandwani (my PhD #12), for completing his defense with flying colors. Yatin made many amazing contributions to neuro-symbolic ML, especially for tasks requiring both perception and reasoning. Joint with Prof Parag Singla)

Back to Back PhD defences! Congratulations to Dr. Dinesh Raghu, my PhD #13, for making salient contributions to the field of end-to-end task oriented dialog, with a focus on unseen knowledge. And with his graduation, all of my 1st gen PhD students at IIT Delhi have graduated!

Can NLP technologies review your research papers? Of course, not! Can they help in reviewing, and also help authors in preparing a strong draft, and help conference organizers improve peer review? Absolutely! More details in this opinion piece that's a result of Feb Schloss Dagstuhl.

Collab w TCS Research, esp. Indrajit Bhattacharya, bearing fruit. Two joint papers on #KBQA accepted at ACL 2025(Main) 1. better model robust to unanswerable questions, 2. 1st(?) in-context learning model for KBQA. A 3rd on KB completion also in. Congrats to all coauthors.

AIHub interviewed me in their "meet AAAI fellows" series. I discuss my career, information extraction, mentorship and creativity. aihub.org/2024/06/06/int…

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Overjoyed that Aditya Grover , ex-ugrad IIT Delhi, won the prestigious once-in-2-yr Computers&Thought award. He has done ground-breaking work in AI4climate, diffusion LLMs, graph embeddings & more. Also beaming with pride as I co-mentored him in his early days. Congrats Aditya!!

Honored to be featured in Forbes India and Accel’s list of top 30 minds leading the AI revolution in India. Lots of amazing people on the list…