Curriculum Vitae

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About Me

Hi, my name is Abhilash Nandy. I am a Prime Minister Research Fellow (PhD) at IIT Kharagpur, India. My main area of interest is Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning. Right now, I am working on research projects on Question Answering Systems on E-Manuals and Explainable Recommendation Systems.

Research Interests

Automated Question Answering, Information Retrieval, Recommendation Systems

Publications

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LREC 2022

Ankan Mullick, Abhilash Nandy, Manav Nitin Kapadnis, Sohan Patnaik, R Raghav, Roshni Kar. An Evaluation Framework for Legal Document Summarization [PDF, Code, Explanation Video]

AAAI-22 workshop on Scientific Document Understanding

Ankan Mullick, Abhilash Nandy, Manav Nitin Kapadnis, Sohan Patnaik, R Raghav. Fine-grained Intent Classification in the Legal Domain [PDF]

EMNLP 2021 Findings

Abhilash Nandy, Soumya Sharma, Shubham Maddhashiya, Kapil Sachdeva, Pawan Goyal, Niloy Ganguly. Question Answering over Electronic Devices: A New Benchmark Dataset and a Multi-Task Learning based QA Framework [Project Website, PDF, Code]

Argument Mining Workshop, EMNLP 2021

Manav Nitin Kapadnis, Sohan Patnaik, Siba Smarak Panigrahi, Varun Madhavan, Abhilash Nandy. Team Enigma at ArgMining-EMNLP 2021: Leveraging Pre-trained Language Models for Key Point Matching [PDF, Code]

Proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2021), co-located with ACL 2021

Abhilash Nandy, Sayantan Adak, Tanurima Halder, Sai Mahesh Pokala. cs60075 team2 at SemEval-2021 Task 1 : Lexical Complexity Prediction using Transformer-based Language Models pre-trained on various text corpora [PDF, Code, Explanation Video]

Proceedings of the First Workshop on Speech and Language Technologies for Dravidian Languages, co-located with EACL 2021

Kushal Kedia, Abhilash Nandy. indicnlp@ kgp at DravidianLangTech-EACL2021: Offensive Language Identification in Dravidian Languages [PDF, Code]

Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops 2019

Abhilash Nandy. A Densenet Based Robust Face Detection Framework [PDF]

IEEE 32nd International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS) 2019

Gopabandhu Hota, Abhilash Nandy, Kshitiz Goel, Dishank Yadav, Saumo Pal, Ankush Roy. An Adaptive Anaphylaxis Detection and Emergency Response System [PDF]

14th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face & Gesture Recognition (FG) Workshops 2019

Abhilash Nandy, Shanka Subhra Mondal. Kinship verification using deep siamese convolutional neural network [PDF]

IUI Workshops 2019

Sopan Khosla, Siddhant Arora, Abhilash Nandy, Ankita Saxena, Anandhavelu Natarajan. Understanding Community Rivalry on Social Media: A Case Study of Two Footballing Giants [PDF]

International Conference for Emerging Technology (INCET) 2020

Abhilash Nandy, Sushovan Haldar, Subhashis Banerjee, Sushmita Mitra. A Survey on Applications of Siamese Neural Networks in Computer Vision [PDF]

5th MedImage Workshop of 11th Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing, 2018 (Part of BTech. Thesis Project)

Abhilash Nandy, Rachana Sathish, Debdoot Sheet. Identification of Cervical Pathology using Adversarial Neural Networks [PDF]

3rd IEEE International Conference on Recent Trends in Electronics, Information & Communication Technology (RTEICT) 2018

Adarsh Kumar Kosta, Abhilash Nandy, Chaitanya Paikara, Dishank Yadav, Souham Mandal, Shashikant Soren. Low-cost Brain Controlled Orthotic Exoskeleton Arm for Monoplegic Paralyzed Individuals [PDF]

Work Experience

Review Activities

Conferences: SemEval 2021, WACV 2020

Teaching Assistant

• Programming and Data Structures, CSE Dept., Spring 2020–2021

Outside Academia

• Software Development Engineer / Adobe, India (2019, Noida, India)

• Research Intern / Adobe Big Data Experience Labs (Summer 2018, Bangalore, India)

• Research Intern / TCS Innovation Labs (Winter 2017, Noida, India)

Education