Hey👋! I am Varun, a first-year PhD student in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Nanyang Technological University, advised by Prof. Soujanya Poria. Previously, I was a Pre-Doctoral SCAI-Center Fellow at Microsoft Research India, where I was mentored by Dr. Kalika Bali and Dr. Sunayana Sitaram. Prior to that, I completed my M.Tech at IIT Madras, co-advised by Dr. Raj Dabre and Prof. Mitesh Khapra, and earlier earned my B.E. in Computer Science (with a Minor in Physics) from BITS Hyderabad.
For a full list of my publications you can have a look here. Please feel free to reach out to me over email if you have any questions about my research, have suggestions or just want to chat, especially about Ph.D./MS opportunities and the applications cycle.
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2025-09-26: 📜 Preprint of my final work at MSRI, The Role of Synthetic Data in Multilingual, Multi-Cultural AI Systems: Lessons from Indic Languages, is live!
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2025-08-11: ▶️ Started my Ph.D at Nanyang Technological University @ School of EEE!
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2025-08-18: ⏹️ Completed my stint at Microsoft Research India! Grateful to all collaborators!
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2025-04-29: 📜 Towards Inducing Document-Level Abilities in MNMT Systems has been accepted at NAACL 2025!
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2024-11-10: ✈️ Attending EMNLP 2024 at Miami, Florida to present our work, Pariksha.
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2024-10-21: 📜 The Report on Contamination of Multilingual Benchmarks has been accepted at EvalEval @ NEURIPS 2024. The preprint is live!
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2024-10-18: 📜 Preprint of Health-Pariksha is online. Do check it out, and more models are on the way! Also, an updated version of Towards Inducing Document-Level Abilities in MNMT Systems is online, with an improved name, write up, evaluation set and framework.
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2024-08-10: ✈️ Attending ACL 2024 at Bangkok, Thailand (my first ever conference 🎉).
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2023-07-31: ↪️ Converted from Intern to SCAI Center Fellow at Microsoft Research India.
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2023-05-22: ▶️ Started my Internship at Microsoft Research India.
