Education
Dec 2015 - Sept 2019
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Computer Science/Computational Linguistics
University of Munich (LMU), Germany
Advisor: Prof. Hinrich Schütze Examiners: Dr. Ivan Titov and Dr. William Yang Wang
Dissertation Topic: Neural Information Extraction from Natural Language Text [GPA: 1.0/5.0, A+]
Research Topics: Neural Entity-Relation Extraction, Neural Topic Modeling (static and dynamic), Representation Learning, Deep Learning, Probabilistic Graphical Models, Semi-supervised Bootstrapping, Natural Language Processing
Spotlight: #9 scientific publications at NLP/AI venues (e.g., ICLR, AAAI, NAACL, EMNLP, COLING, etc.)
Funding: Siemens Corporate Technology Munich and Smart Data Web, a BMWi funded project
Oct 2013 - Nov 2015
Master of Science (MSc) in Computer Science
Technical University of Munich, Germany
Majors: Machine Learning [Overall GPA: 1.2/5.0, A+ (Best: 1.0)]
Master Thesis: Deep Learning Methods for the Extraction of Relations in Natural Language Text (Grade: 1.0/5.0)
Master Thesis committee: Prof. Thomas Runkler (TUM and Siemens, Munich), Dr. Heike Adel (LMU, Germany), Dr. Bernt Andrassy (Siemens, Munich), Dr. Hans-Georg Zimmermann (Siemens, Munich) and Prof. Hinrich Schütze (LMU, Germany)
Spotlight: #2 scientific publications in NAACL-2016 and ICASSP-2016
2006 - 2010
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech)} in Information Technology
Amity University, Noida India [Overall GPA: 9.2/10.0 (Best: 10.0)]
Bachelor Thesis: Summarizing text by ranking text units according to shallow linguistic features
Spotlight: Department Topper, #2 scientific publications
2005 -2006
All India Senior Secondary School Examination (XII) in Science
Spotlight: All India Central Board Merit Holder (Top 0.1% of 0.5 Million students)