Biography

हृषीकेश राजेश तेरदाळकर


Hrishikesh is a researcher at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Kanpur. He completed his PhD under the supervision of Prof. Arnab Bhattacharya.

His research lies in the intersection of Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, and Software Engineering 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.

He is looking for motivated students interested in pursuing research in the aforementioned research areas. If you are interested, please feel free to reach out.

[ Curriculum Vitae ] [ Research Statement ] [ Teaching Statement ]

Interests
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Computational Linguistics
  • Software Engineering
  • Information Retrieval
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Data Mining
  • Machine Learning
Education
  • PhD in Computer Science and Engineering, 2014-2023

    Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

  • MSc in Computer Science, 2011-2013

    Chennai Mathematical Institute

  • BSc (Hons) in Mathematics and Computer Science, 2007-2010

    Chennai Mathematical Institute

Skills

Programming
Python
C, C++, Haskell
Libraries & Tools
spaCy, Stanza, Gensim, NLTK
PyTorch, huggingface, Scikit-learn
Web
Flask, SQLAlchemy
PHP
JS, jQuery
CSS, Bootstrap
Administration
SQL, MongoDB, Neo4j
Bash, Zsh
Git, Make, PyPI, Docker
Server

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Reviewer
September 2020 – Present

Conferences:

  • CoDS-COMAD: 2020, 2021, 2023.
  • CIKM: 2021, 2022.
  • AAAI: 2022.
  • DASFAA: 2022.
  • ARR: 2022, 2023, 2024.
 
 
 
 
 
Web Chair
January 2023 – February 2024
Setup and managed the conference website as well as the proceedings of the conference.
 
 
 
 
 
CSE, IIT Kanpur
Senior Tutor
January 2017 – November 2020 Uttar Pradesh, India

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
 
 
 
 
 
CSE, IIT Kanpur
Teaching Assistant
August 2014 – November 2020 Uttar Pradesh, India

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)
 
 
 
 
 
NPTEL
Teaching Assistant
May 2017 – September 2017 India
 
 
 
 
 
CSE, IIT Kanpur
Webmaster
December 2014 – July 2016 Uttar Pradesh, India
Managed the website for CSE Department
 
 
 
 
 
CSE, IIT Kanpur
Research Associate
July 2013 – April 2014 Uttar Pradesh, India
Worked on the project “Localization in Wireless Sensor Networks”

Accomplish­ments

Best Poster Award
TCS Research Scholar Program

Projects

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Recent Publications

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(2023). Āyurjñānam: Exploring Āyurveda using Knowledge Graphs. NYCIKS ‘23
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