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

Tutorials

• Tutorial that titled "Large Language Models as Human-like Annotators" accepted at ECIR-25 (A) !

• Tutorial that titled "Language and the Brain: Deep Learning for Brain Encoding and Decoding" accepted at CODS COMAD-24!  

• Tutorial that titled "Large Language Models as Human-like Annotators" accepted at KR-24 (A*) !

• 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!  

• Tutorial that titled "Deep Learning for Brain Encoding and Decoding" accepted at Cogsci-22!  

Publications

• New paper that titled "USDC: A Dataset of User Stance and Dogmatism in Long Conversations " accepted at ACL-25 Findings Long (A*) 

• New paper that titled "Multi-modal brain encoding models for multi-modal stimuli" accepted at ICLR-25 (A*) 

• New paper that titled "Correlating instruction-tuning (in multimodal models) with vision-language processing (in the brain)" accepted at ICLR-25 (A*) 

• New paper that titled "Deep Neural Networks and Brain Alignment: Brain Encoding and Decoding (Survey)" accepted at TMLR ! 

• 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 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

• 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)

• 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

Reviewer

• Serving as a reviewer for the conference ICML-2025

• Serving as a reviewer for the conference Interspeech-2025

• Serving as a reviewer for the conference ACL ARR Febraury-2025