Speakers

Anirban is currently associated with the AI-Tech group at IBM Research AI. He has been working in natural language generation (NLG) project in IBM for the last three years and has published papers on generation both from unstructured and structured data in top conferences like NeurIPS, ACL and NAACL. He has also worked on argumentation mining (IBM Project Debater), which received news coverage worldwide recently because of a live machine vs human debate. He was also briefly associated with Machine Learning for Creativity project at IBM (SIGKDD workshop https://ml4creativity.mybluemix.net/), during which he has worked on story generation.

Parag is currently working as a Research Engineer in IBM India Research Lab. At IBM he has been working in natural language generation and has published papers on data-to-text generation and text-to-text generation in top AI-NLP conference like ACL, NAACL-HLT and AAAI. He has also worked on ontology driven dialog systems focusing on template based NLG from structured outputs.

Abhijit is currently a part of IBM Research AI, Bangalore, India, serving as Research Scientist in the division of AI-Tech. He is involved in multiple projects based on Natural Language Generation (NLG), viz. (1) Controllable Text Transformation (2) Structured Data Summarization, and (3) Devising evaluation metrics for quality estimation of NLG Output. Since 2013, Abhijit's works have been consistently getting published in the proceedings of prestigious NLP/AI conferences such as ACL, AAAI, and WWW.

Karthik is a Senior Research Scientist and Senior Technical Staff Member Manager working in the area of Artificial Intelligence at IBM's India Research Lab (IBM Research AI) in Bangalore. He is currently leading research projects focused around Natural Language Generation (NLG), question-answering (QA), multimodal deep learning, and information retrieval from domain-specific knowledge graphs (NLQ) as part of IBM Watson. He has also managed efforts around argumentation mining (IBM Project Debater), which received news coverage worldwide recently because of a live machine vs human debate (http://www.research.ibm.com/artificial-intelligence/project-debater/index.html).

Saravanan is currently associated with the AI Tech group at IBM Research AI – India since 2014. He has been working in natural language generation (NLG) project in IBM for the last two years focusing on research-oriented solutions for industrial deployments. Earlier at IBM, he was part of information retrieval group in IBM Project Debater