Biswesh Mohapatra

Biswesh Mohapatra

I am a PhD student at Inria Paris working with the Articulab group (part of Almanach) under Prof. Justine Cassell and Prof. Laurent Romary. I am currently working on multimodal conversational grounding.

I have done an Integrated Master of Technology (B.Tech + M.Tech) majoring in Computer Science and Engineering at IIIT Bangalore, India. I have been fortunate to intern at Naver Labs Europe, IBM Research AI, Siemens Research and was also a Google Summer of Codes Scholar(GSOC) in 2018. I have a keen interest in working in the field of NLP, Multimodal Machine Learning, and use of Reinforcement Learning in the field of Conversational AI. I have experience working on Machine Translations, Knowledge Graphs, and Ontologies.

For my PhD thesis, I am looking into the field of conversational agents and building spoken dialog systems that are robust in terms of conversational grounding. I am specifically working on the process of representing the common ground and effectively storing the grounded information over a period of time.

For my Master's thesis, I worked on ontological embedding for faster reasoning under Prof. G. Srinivasaraghavan in collaboration with IBM Research AI (Sumit Bhatia) and Knowledgable Computing and Reasoning Lab. Prior to my endeavor in research, I have contributed to Open Sourced Organisations like OpenStreetMap. I also co-created an online digital simulator Circuitverse during my first year of undergraduate which is today a vibrant open-sourced community with millions of users.

You can find a list of my papers in the Google Scholar, or Semantic Scholar.

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