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About Me
About Me
I am a researcher working predominantly in the fields of applying deep learning for medicine, natural language understanding, fairness in AI and knowledge representation and reasoning.
As a research scientist, I have accumulated over a decade of experience specializing in the practical application of artificial intelligence algorithms, machine learning methodologies, and natural language processing techniques. I have successfully addressed complex challenges, including resolving math word problems, analyzing medical records for biomarkers associated with cochlear implants and dental implants, modeling genomic data, and optimizing metadata design for scientific artifacts. My academic contributions are reflected in presentations at reputable conferences such as AAAI, ECAI, ECML-PKDD, ESWC, EDBT, and more. I excel in collaborating within multi-disciplinary teams and have gained global exposure through work experiences in India, Germany, and the United States.
Currently, I am a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford School of Medicine. Prior to that, I was a post-doctoral scholar at L3S Research, Hannover, Germany. Previously, I was a research engineer at Saama Technologies, Chennai. Before that, I was an applied scientist intern at Amazon, Bengaluru, India. I obtained my masters and Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras, India. I had my thesis defence on April 23, 2020.
I was initially mentored by Dr. Deepak Khemani, Professor, IIT-Madras followed by Dr. Deepak Padmanabhan, Adjunct Faculty IIT-Madras and Lecturer at Queen's University, Belfast. Then, I worked with Dr. Wolfgang Nejdl at L3S Research Center, Hannover. Currently I work with Dr. Mark Musen at Stanford.
Email - sowmyassundaram@gmail.com
Publications
Publications
Sowmya S Sundaram, Mark A Musen, "Making Metadata More FAIR Using Large Language Models", DaMaLOS worksjop, Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC), Hersonissos, Greece, 2023
Soumyadeep Roy, Jonas Wallat, Sowmya S Sundaram, Wolfgang Nejdl, Niloy Ganguly. "GeneMask: Fast Pretraining of Gene Sequences to Enable Few-Shot Learning" 26th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence ECAI Krakow, Poland, 2023
Abraham, Savitha Sam, Deepak P, and Sowmya S. Sundaram. "Span Detection for Kinematics Word Problems." International Conference on Neural Information Processing. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, 2022.
Sowmya S Sundaram, Sairam Gurajada, Marco Fisichella, Deepak P, Savitha Sam Abraham (2022) Why are NLP Models Fumbling at Elementary Math? A Survey of Deep Learning based Word Problem Solvers, Under Review at Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews for Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
Deepak P, Sowmya S Sundaram (2022) : FiSH: Fair Spatial Hotspots, Springer Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
Sowmya S Sundaram, Deepak P, Savitha Sam Abraham (2020) : Distributed Representations for Arithmetic Word Problems, In the proceedings of AAAI conference on Artificial Intelligence at New York, USA, February 2020
Savitha Sam Abraham, Deepak P, Sowmya S Sundaram (2020) : Fairness in Clustering with Multiple Sensitive Attributes, In the Proceedings of the Extending Database Technology Conference at Copenhagen, Denmark on March 2020
Sowmya S Sundaram, Savitha Sam Abraham (2019) : Semantic Representation for Age Word Problems with Schemas, New Generation Computing (2019)
Savitha Sam Abraham, Sowmya S Sundaram (2019) : An Ontology-Based Kinematics Problem Solver Using Qualitative and Quantitative Knowledge, New Generation Computing (2019)
Sowmya S Sundaram, Savitha Sam Abraham (2018) : Solving Simple Arithmetic Word Problems Precisely with Schemas, In Proceedings of The 31st International Conference on Industrial, Engineering & Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems at Montreal, Canada on July, 2018.
Savitha Sam Abraham, Sowmya S Sundaram (2018) : Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Reasoning for Solving Kinematics Word Problems. The Thirty-First International Flairs Conference, Florida, USA on May, 2018.
Sowmya S Sundaram, Deepak Khemani (2017) : Reasoning with Sets to Solve Simple Arithmetic Word Problems. Short paper In the Proceedings of International Conference on Natural Language Processing at Durgapur, India on December, 2017
Sowmya S Sundaram, Deepak Khemani (2015) : Natural Language Processing for Simple Word Problems. In the Proceedings of International Conference on Natural Language Processing at Trivandrum, India on December, 2015.
Research Roles
Research Roles
PC for AAAI 2023
Reviewer for NeurIPS workshop MATH-AI 2023
Reviewer for PAKDD 2022
Reviewer for CIKM 2021 (sub-reviewer)
Reviewer for ICON 2020
PhD Thesis
PhD Thesis
Representing Arithmetic Word Problems using Schemas
Thesis-Public.pdfAwards
Awards
ACM Travel grant for attending AAAI 2020
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) research fellowship (2016-2020)
Anna University Rank Holder (16th rank) of among 6306 university affiliated undergraduate students.
Full fee waiver undergraduate merit scholarship (2010-2012)
Teaching
Teaching
Tutor (Summer 2021) - Machine Learning for Graphs Seminar at L3S
Tutor (Winter 2021) - NLP at L3S
Volunteer Teacher - 15 hour course on Deep Learning and NLP (Feb-Mar 2021) at SSN Coellege of Engineering, Chennai
Teaching Assistant (2013-2019) - IIT Madras
Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
Artificial Intelligence
Theory of Ontologies
Introduction to Programming
Talks and Workshops at local communities (2018-2019)
Learn IT, Girl - Mentor (2019)
Talks
Talks
Gave a talk at ESWC 2023 on "Metadata and Large Language Models" at Hersonissos, Greece, May, 2023
Gave a talk at Women in Data Science (WiDS) at Erlangen, Germany, online in April 2023
Gave a talk on "Neural Architectures for Medical Domain" at Future Lab, L3S Research Center on May, 2021
Gave a talk on "Intro to NLP" as a part of Women Tech Makers, Chennai on August, 2020
Gave a talk on "Natural Language Processing: An Application Perspective" at Vignan Engineering College, India, on August, 2020.
Gave a talk on "Seq2Seq : A Case Study for Deep Learning" at SSN College of Engineering on July, 2020
Gave a talk on Research 101 as a part of Google Developers Group, Chennai and Women Tech Makers on June, 2020
Presented published paper at AAAI, New York, USA, 2020
Presented a tutorial on “Machine Learning for Automatic Word Problem Solving” at ECML-PKDD 2019
Gave a technical talk on Machine Learning and AI with Python at PyLadies Chennai in March, 2019
Gave a technical talk on Natural Language Processing at Women Tech Makers, Chennai in November, 2018
Presented published paper at IEA/AIE held at Montreal, Canada in July, 2018
Presented published paper at ICON held at Trivandrum, India in December, 2015
In Other News
In Other News
Podcast released in April 2023
Podcast released in Dec 2020
Recent Press Release - Fairness Work
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