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Abhilash is a PhD Scholar at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur from September 2020. He is working under the supervision of Prof. Niloy Ganguly and Prof. Pawan Goyal in CNeRG. His research involves building new frameworks for Procedural Comprehension, Question Answering, and exploring methods for training LLMs and Multimodal models in several downstream applications. He is a member of the Complex Network Research Group (CNeRG) as well.
He did his B. Tech in Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
AbhilashNandyNewCV___1_Page.pdfActive Research Projects
Compute-Efficient pre-training Framework for domain-specific NLP applications
Proposing a computationally efficient pre-training technique for NLP models.
Leverages document metadata and taxonomy to reduce computational demands.
Maintains performance while mitigating catastrophic forgetting.
Procedural Reasoning
Proposing novel pre-training frameworks tailored for procedural text data
Pre-trained models show improved performance on downstream procedural reasoning tasks compared to baselines
Extending this to multimodal scenarios.
Question Answering on E-Manuals
Using different domain-specific pre-training techniques for Transformer-based Models
Using Multi Task Learning to improve section retrieval and answer retrieval
Enhancing quality of QA pairs in Community QA Forums
Recommendation Systems
Analysis of different Post-Hoc Explanations for black-box movie recommendation systems
Developing metrics to measure explainability and faithfulness of the explanations to the original model
Courses done during PhD
Natural Language Processing
AI and Ethics
Complex Network
Scalable Data Mining
Information Retrieval
Advanced Graph Theory
English for Technical Writing
Advanced Machine Learning
Publications
NAACL 2024
Abhilash Nandy, Yash Kulkarni, Pawan Goyal, Niloy Ganguly. Order-Based Pre-training Strategies for Procedural Text Understanding [PDF, Code]
Clinical NLP Workshop @ NAACL 2024
Manav Nitin Kapadnis, Sohan Patnaik, Abhilash Nandy, Sourjyadip Ray, Pawan Goyal, Debdoot Sheet. SERPENT-VLM : Self-Refining Radiology Report Generation Using Vision Language Models [PDF]
EMNLP 2023 Findings
Abhilash Nandy, Manav Nitin Kapadnis, Pawan Goyal, Niloy Ganguly. CLMSM: A Multi-Task Learning Framework for Pre-training on Procedural Text [PDF, Code, Explanation Video]
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]
Social Networking
Or else in General Research Lab, Computer Science and Engineering Dept., IIT Kharagpur, India