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Biography
Hrishikesh is a postdoctoral researcher at the LIRIS Research Lab, University of Lyon 1 working with Prof. Angela Bonifati and Prof. Andrea Mauri. He completed his PhD from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Kanpur under the supervision of Prof. Arnab Bhattacharya.
His research lies in the intersection of Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, and Graph Databases, with a particular focus on low-resource languages such as Sanskrit and other Indian languages. He is committed to leveraging the interdisciplinary background to pioneer NLP innovations, with a strong emphasis on creating a real-world impact.
[ Curriculum Vitae ] [ Research Statement ] [ Teaching Statement ]
- Natural Language Processing
- Computational Linguistics
- Databases
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Information Retrieval
- Artificial Intelligence
- Data Mining
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PhD in Computer Science and Engineering, 2014-2023
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
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MSc in Computer Science, 2011-2013
Chennai Mathematical Institute
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BSc (Hons) in Mathematics and Computer Science, 2007-2010
Chennai Mathematical Institute
Recent Publications
Teaching
- Program: Master 1
- Course: Databases and Data Mining
- Program: M2: Data and Intelligence for Smart Systems (DISS)
- Course: Introduction to Natural Language Processing
Managed Prutor administration for “ESC101: Introduction to Programming” course for 5 semesters. Duties also involved heading the tutor team, setting question papers and grading.
Instructors:
- Jan 2017 - Apr 2017: Prof. Rajat Mittal
- Aug 2017 - Nov 2017: Prof. Nisheeth Srivastava
- Jan 2018 - Apr 2018: Prof. Indranil Saha
- Aug 2019 - Nov 2019: Prof. Piyush Rai
- Jan 2020 - Apr 2020: Prof. Nisheeth Srivastava
Courses:
- CS315: Principles of Database Systems (Jan-Apr 2021)
- CS315: Principles of Database Systems (Jan-Apr 2019)
- CS685: Data Mining (Aug-Nov 2018)
- CS774: Optimization Techniques (Aug-Nov 2016)
- ESC101: Introduction to Programming (Aug-Nov 2014)
- NOC17-CS33: Fundamentals of Database Systems (Prof. Arnab Bhattacharya)
Experience
