I am an Assistant Professor at The Ohio State University. 

My research interests broadly include topics in Machine Learning for Natural Language Processing (NLP). In particular, I am interested in building language technologies that work for all people---language models that can uniformly support diverse languages, domains, populations, and individuals. Some research directions I am currently excited about are: 

These directions touch various parts of a typical machine learning pipeline including building new datasets, modeling paradigms and architectures, training and inference algorithms, and evaluation methodologies. 

I will be recruiting multiple PhD students this cycle (Fall 2025). If you are interested, apply here (and mention my name in your application)

I was a postdoctoral researcher at the Allen Institute for AI (AI2) from August 2023-August 2024. I obtained my Ph.D. at the Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in August 2023 with the final two years of my PhD spent visiting the University of Washington in Seattle. 

Contact: kumar [dot] 1145 [at] osu [dot] edu

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