- August 2019: Pankaj Joshi (M.Tech. 2019 batch) received an award for research excellence in an M.Tech thesis project from the CSE department, IITB. Congrats to Pankaj!
- July 2019: CSALT welcomes four new students, Mayur, Rakesh, Kushagra and Archiki.
- July 2019: M.Tech. students Pankaj, Digvijay, Arijit, Adarsh and Minali have graduated. Best wishes!
- June 2019: Karan will be presenting our paper on exploiting monolingual data for code-switched ASR at Interspeech 2019!
- May 2019: Nitish and Arijit are authors on a paper accepted to ACL 2019. Congrats to both! Joint work with Vishwajeet Kumar (Ph.D. student) and Ganesh Ramakrishnan.
- May 2019: B.Tech. students Chitwan, Vishwajeet, Nihal, Bhavesh and Tanuj have graduated. We wish them the very best!
- November 2018: Preethi is on maternity leave from November 2018 to April 2019.
- August 2018: Two papers from CSALT accepted to EMNLP 2018. Congrats to the student authors Kalpesh, Saurabh and Tanmay!
- July 2018: Preethi was invited to give a talk on technical writing at ACM India Grad Cohort 2018.
- June 2018: Karan has penned a couple of detailed blog posts (part I, part II) on attention-based models for the uninitiated. Check them out!
- June 2018: M.Tech. students Abhinav, Himanshu, Abhilash and Sanket have graduated. We wish them the very best for everything ahead!
- June 2018: CSALT has three papers accepted to Interspeech 2018, to be held at Hyderabad in September. Congrats to all the student authors, Abhinav, Minali, Saurabh, Tanmay, Pankaj and Digvijay!
- May 2018: B.Tech. students Kalpesh, Jayanth, Mohit, Rajat, Saurabh, Sohum, Suman, Tanmay and Tejas have graduated. Wish them the very best for the journey ahead!
- March 2018: Preethi has received a Google Faculty Research Award 2017.
- February 2018: Nitish has received a summer internship from Mohit Bansal at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Congrats Nitish!
- January 2018: Paper on training deep networks for domain generalization, authored by students and faculty at IITB (including Preethi), was accepted to ICLR 2018.
- January 2018: Preethi is a general co-chair (along with Rohit Prabhavalkar at Google Inc.) of MLSLP 2018 (Workshop on Machine Learning in Speech and Language Processing) which will be co-located with Interspeech 2018 at Hyderabad. If you have emerging ideas in ML with potential for impact in speech/language, please consider submitting your abstracts!
- January 2018: Preethi was invited to speak on "State of the art in speech technologies" at the Academic Research Summit 2018 (A Future with AI) organized by Microsoft Research and ACM India.
- December 2017: The CSALT group grows to two dozen! Welcome to Arijit, Digvijay, Pankaj, Adarsh, Minali, Karan, Vishwajeet, Nitish and Yash!
- December 2017: Saurabh and Tanmay were invited to spend two weeks at Microsoft Research India to work on Indian language technologies.
- November 2017: Preethi spoke to high school girls about research in computer science at the "Meet the Women Scientists" event held at the Nehru Science Centre.
- November 2017: Suman and Rajat have developed an Android app called CLAP (Crowdsourcing for Language Processing) to help collect labeled speech. Do check it out on Google Play!
- September 2017: Kalpesh has released a Tensorflow implementation of Yoon Kim's paper on convolutional neural networks for sentence classification.
- August 2017: Paper on accent identification using deep Siamese networks authored by Aditya Siddhant (CMU), Preethi and Sriram Ganapathy (IISc) has been accepted to ASRU 2017.
- July 2017: Preethi was invited to attend the 18th annual Microsoft Research Faculty Summit in Redmond, WA on July 17, 18.
- June 2017: Preethi's team won the best project award at Microsoft Research India's Summer Workshop on Artificial Social Intelligence. Congrats to the team!
- June 2017: Kalpesh has written an excellent blog post describing a recent ICLR paper that questions the utility of attention mechanisms in neural language modeling.
- June 2017: Preethi will be leading a team working on improved accent adapation for ASR systems at Microsoft Research India's Summer Workshop on Artificial Social Intelligence. Congrats to Abhinav for being selected to join this team!
- May 2017: Preethi was interviewed by ML-India.
- May 2017: Kalpesh will be a summer intern for 2 months at TTI-Chicago under the mentorship of Liang Lu, Karen Livescu and Kevin Gimpel. Congrats Kalpesh!
- May 2017: CSALT website launched.