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I have started a new role @Cerence (earlier known as Nuance Automotive), Germany as Innovation Manager- Automotive R&D. Previously I was with @Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany as Senior Dialogue System Researcher where I focus on the research domain: Dialogue Systems and Question Answering. I led a team that improved question-answering capabilities in Fraunhofer’s spin-off dialogue system technology Sophia.

I was also an Early Stage Researcher (ESR) @Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany in the Enterprise Information Systems group for three years. My research was primarily focussed on question answering over knowledge graphs.  I have received the prestigious Marie Curie Fellowship for the period of August 2015-August 2018 for research and my Ph.D. studies at the University of Bonn, Germany. I have registered my thesis on 17.10.2015, submitted the thesis on 29.11.2018, and defended on 17.01.2019 with grade: 1.0 (magna cum laude).

Interests: Question Answering, Semantic Web, Linked Data Technologies, Geospatial Question Answering, Information Extraction, Knowledge Graphs.

Current Education: Ph.D. (August,2015-January 2019): the University of Bonn, Germany under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Sören Auer. 

  • For my full list of Publications, please see Google Scholar.
  • The code of Frankenstein framework can be found in our GitHub. Arun and I are core developers behind it.
  • For Qanary Framework which is co-developed by me (along with Dennis Diefenbach, and Andreas Both), please see Code.
  • I  have also developed QAestro framework for a semantic-based composition of QA pipelines.
  • My research work is part of a European Union project ”WDAqua-Answering Questions using Web Data”. We are a team of 15 early stage researchers.  Together, we improve current state-of-the-art question answering (QA) approaches to build reusable QA systems. In this project,  I am developing an open question answering framework which is scalable, extensible, and reusable for other QA approaches. I aim to design a distributed, and scalable QA architecture that supports dynamic QA pipeline composition.  Hence, I am responsible for building the core architecture of the project.

Professional Activities: 

My previous education details are:

  • Double Master’s degree (Oct-2013-June 2015) as part of EIT ICT Labs Master School, Europe. The double degree program allows a student to collectively complete 120 credits in two different universities and in the end, get two degrees from different universities.
    • MSc (Computer Science and Engineering) from Aalto University, Finland with distinction (GPA: 4.32/5, 5 is Highest)
    • MSc (Computer Science and Engineering) from Technische Universität Berlin,  Germany (GPA: 1.5/5, 1 is highest/ Official Descriptor: Sehr gut- outstanding achievement)
    • Received scholarship from EIT Digital to study in Masters program (Total Amount of Scholarship: 16000 Euro as Tuition Fee waiver + 6000 Euro as living cost coverage)
    • Finished Master’s degree just in 20 months.
  • B.Tech (2007-2011) (Computer Science and Engineering) from VIT University, Vellore India (GPA: 8.56/10, 10 is highest).

Past Work Experience: 

  • Research Assistant (January,2015-June 2015), Department of Computer Science, Aalto University under the guidance of prof. Dr. Keijo Heljanko
    • The task required deep research in different cloud data stores like HBase, MongoDB, Cassandra, and Riak and focused especially on their fault tolerance capabilities in case of heavy read and write operations. Finally, benchmarked all of them using the Yahoo Benchmarking tool (YCSB) against each other to analyze their performance on a large distributed cluster. It also resulted in my master’s thesis.
    • Masters thesis can be accessed at the link.
  •  Business Technology Analyst (July 2011-July2013), Deloitte LLP, Bangalore, India

Research And Conference Visits (Fully Funded grants)

  • EIT ICT Labs Summer School for 15 days in Stockholm, Sweden (August 2014).
  • Web Intelligence summer school, St. Ettienne, France (August 2015).
  • French-German Collaborative Learning week, St. Ettienne, France (September 2015).
  • Athens Technology Center, Greece as a visiting researcher (February 2016).
  • ESWC, 2016 Crete to present paper (June 2016) .
  • Invited Talk at the University of Liepzig, Germany (September 2016).
  • Research and development week at the University of Athens, Greece (December 2016).
  • ESWC, 2017 Portoroz, Slovenia.
  • German-French WDAqua Summer school, St. Ettienne, France (July 2017)
  • DEXA 2017  for presenting the paper in Lyon, France (August 2017).
  • Research and Development week for Marie Curie Fellows in Berlin, Germany      (September 2017)
  • ISWC 2017 for presenting our demo paper in Vienna, Austria ( October 2017)
  • K-Cap 2017 for presenting our research paper in Austin, Texas, USA (December 2017)
  • To visit Knoesis center, Wright State University as a visiting researcher for presenting our work. (December 2017)
  • Lyon visit to attend The Web Conference 2018 (WWW) (April 2018)
  • To visit Crete for ESWC 2018
  • To visit Ann Arbor, USA for SIGIR 2018

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