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)