Subba Reddy Oota
Research Student @ Inria, France
Visiting Scholar @ MaxPlanck Saarbrucken, Germany
I am currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at TU Berlin, Germany, under the supervision of Prof. Fatma Deniz. I recently defended my doctoral thesis at Inria, France, under the supervision of Dr. Xavier Hinaut and Prof. Alexandre Frederic. I am also a visiting scholar at MaxPlanck, Germany, under the supervision of Dr. Mariya Toneva. Previously, I was a Master student at IIIT-Hyderabad, India.
My research interests:
Computational Neuroscience,
Bridging AI & Neuroscience
Language Analysis in the Brain
Brain Encoding & Decoding (fMRI, MEG, EEG)
Natural Language Processing
Deep Learning
News
Awards
Happy to receive "Nasscom AI-Gamechangers award" under AI research track for my ACL-23 Findings paper - Award
Happy to receive "NeurIPS-23 scholar award" to present my accepted paper - Long paper
Awarded both Microsoft and Google Travel grants for NAACL-22 conference
Invited Talks
Happy to present talk that titled "Language models are human-like annotators" at KR-24 conference, Hanoi, Vietnam
Happy to present talk that titled "Characterizing Similarities and Differences Between Language Processing in Brains and Language Models" at MPI Psycholinguistics, Donders lab, Germany
Happy to present talk that titled "Characterizing Similarities and Differences Between Language Processing in Brains and Language Models" at National Research Council, Canada
Happy to present talk that titled "Characterizing Similarities and Differences Between Language Processing in Brains and Language Models" at MIT Brain + Cognitive sciences lab, Cambridge, MA, USA
Papers
New paper that titled "Speech language models lack important brain relevant semantics" accepted at ACL-24 (A*)! - Long paper
New paper that titled "On Robustness of Finetuned Transformer-based NLP Models" accepted at EMNLP-23 Findings (A*) ! - Long paper
New paper that titled "Joint Processing of Linguistic Properties in Brain and Language Models" accepted at NeurIPS-23 (A*) ! - Main Conference paper
New review paper (preprint) that titled "Deep Neural Networks and Brain Alignment: Brain Encoding and Decoding (Survey)"
New paper that titled "MEG Encoding using Word Context Semantics in Listening Stories" accepted at INTERSPEECH-23 (A) ! - Long paper
New paper that titled "Speech Taskonomy: Which Speech Tasks are the most Predictive of fMRI Brain Activity?" accepted at INTERSPEECH-23 (A) ! - Long paper
New paper that titled "What aspects of NLP models and brain datasets affect brain-NLP alignment?" accepted at CCN-23! - 2-page paper
New paper that titled "How does the brain process syntactic structure while listening?" accepted at ACL-23 (A*) Findings! - Long paper
Tutorial that titled "Deep Neural Networks and Brain Alignment: Brain Encoding and Decoding" accepted at IJCAI-23 (A*) !
Tutorial that titled "Language and the Brain: Deep Learning for Brain Encoding and Decoding" accepted at IJCNN-23!
New paper that titled "Neural Architecture of Speech" accepted at ICASSP-23! - Long paper (Oral)
New paper that titled "Visio-Linguistic Brain Encoding" accepted at COLING-22! - Long paper (Oral)
New paper that titled "Multi-view and Cross-view Brain Decoding" accepted at COLING-22! - Long paper (Oral)
Reviewer
Serving as a reviewer for the conference NeurIPS-2023
Serving as a reviewer for the conference Interspeech-2023
Serving as a reviewer for the conference ACL ARR Febraury-2023
Serving as a reviewer for the conference ICML-2023
Served as Technical session chair for the conference Cogsci-22
Organized a full-day tutorial at the Cogsci-22 conference on Deep Learning for Brain Encoding and Decoding
New paper that titled "Long-Term Plausibility of Language Models and Neural Dynamics during Narrative Listening" accepted at Cogsci-22! - Long paper (flash talk)
Thrilled to present an oral talk at the NAACL-22 conference on Neural Language Taskonomy: Which NLP Tasks are the Most Predictive of Brain Activity