Dr. Vivek Kumar (SMIEEE, Fellow-SCRS) is an NLP enthusiast and is currently a senior researcher/scientist at the University of the Federal Armed Forces (UniBwM) under the Ministry of Defence, Germany. He coordinates STELAR, an EU's Horizon program targeting "Artificial Intelligence, Data, and Robotics." In 2019, he won the Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellowship for the ambitious project PhilHumans under the EU's Horizon 2020 ITN network program. He worked as a Marie-Curie Researcher with Philips Research, Netherlands, and the University of Cagliari, Italy, and received his doctorate in 2023 in this ITN network program. Before this, Dr. Kumar worked as a Research Engineer for the project "Search for Hidden Particles" (SHiP) of the European Commission of Nuclear Research (CERN) at NUST-MiSiS.
He has been a PC/TPC member and co-chair for several top conferences/workshops, including ACL, ECAI, ECML-PKDD, EMNLP, ACM-SAC, ICASSP, etc. and a reviewer for several high-impact journals of Elsevier, IEEE, Springer, MDPI, etc. Dr. Kumar is also a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the International Association of Engineers (IAENG). Dr. Kumar is a seasoned speaker and has given several keynote technical talks.
His current research interests are :
Large Language Models, Generative AI, Natural Language Processing, AI Bais, Mental Health, Psychology, Domain Adaptation, Knowledge Graphs, Deep Learning Sentiment Analysis.
