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
New paper that titled "Speech language models lack important brain relevant semantics" accepted at ACL-24 (A*)! - Long paper
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
Happy to receive "NeurIPS-23 scholar award" to present my accepted paper - 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)
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
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)
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
Awarded both Microsoft and Google Travel grants for NAACL-22 conference