From 2860c7aad734da77291b26d61c0a4d4683109fdd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rachit Bansal Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2024 12:59:36 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] Updated bio --- index.md | 11 ++++++++--- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/index.md b/index.md index b158e2c..5cab0ef 100644 --- a/index.md +++ b/index.md @@ -11,11 +11,16 @@ I am Rachit Bansal, a pre-doctoral researcher at Google Research India. I am bro Over the past few years, I walked my first baby steps as a researcher owing to some wonderful people and collaborations. I pursued my bachelor's thesis research with [Prof. Yonatan Belinkov](http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~belinkov/) at the Technion in Israel. There I had a great time studying how [intrinsic properties of a neural network](https://rachitbansal.github.io/information-measures) are informative of generalization behaviours. Before that, I was a research intern at [Adobe](https://research.adobe.com/)'s Media and Data Science Research Lab, where I worked on [commonsense reasoning for large language models](https://aclanthology.org/2022.naacl-main.83/). -I am extremely fortunate to have been involved in some incredible collaborations. I worked with [Danish](https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ddanish/) for more than two years to [evaluate explanation methods](https://direct.mit.edu/tacl/article/doi/10.1162/tacl_a_00465/110436/Evaluating-Explanations-How-Much-Do-Explanations) in NLP (started with [a meek awe-inspired email](https://rachitbansal.github.io/img/danish-email.png)). I also worked for more than two years with [Naomi](https://nsaphra.net/) on studying [mode connectivity in loss surfaces](https://openreview.net/forum?id=hY6M0JHl3uL) of language models (started with [a message on a Discord channel](https://rachitbansal.github.io/img/naomi-discord.jpeg)). +I am extremely fortunate to have been involved in some incredible collaborations. I worked with [Danish](https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ddanish/) for more than two years to [evaluate explanation methods](https://direct.mit.edu/tacl/article/doi/10.1162/tacl_a_00465/110436/Evaluating-Explanations-How-Much-Do-Explanations) in NLP[^1]. I also worked for more than two years with [Naomi](https://nsaphra.net/) on studying [mode connectivity in loss surfaces](https://openreview.net/forum?id=hY6M0JHl3uL) of language models[^2]. I also spent a couple of wonderful summers as a part of the Google Summer of Code program with the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative ([CDLI](https://cdli.ucla.edu/)). Here, I was advised by [Prof. Jacob Dahl](https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/person/jacob-dahl) and [Dr. Niko Schenk](https://www.english-linguistics.de/nschenk/). My first exposure to research was at [LCS2, IIIT-D](https://www.lcs2.in/). +[^1]: Started with [a meek awe-inspired email](https://rachitbansal.github.io/img/danish-email.png) +[^2]: Started with [a message](https://rachitbansal.github.io/img/naomi-discord.jpeg) on [MLC](https://mlcollective.org/)'s Discord channel + ## News and Timeline +I am looking to start a Ph.D. in Fall'2024! + **2023** * **September** Submitted our work on composing large language models to ICLR 2024. * **May** Presenting our work on linear mode connectivity at ICLR 2023 in Kigali, Rwanda! @@ -24,8 +29,8 @@ I also spent a couple of wonderful summers as a part of the Google Summer of Cod * **September** My bachelor's thesis work done at the Technion was accepted at NeurIPS 2022! * **August** Joining [Google Research India](https://research.google/locations/india/) as a pre-doctoral researcher. * **June** Releasing the [pre-print](https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.12411) for our work on analyzing linear mode connectivity and out-of-distribution behaviour. Led by [Jeevesh](https://github.com/Jeevesh8) and mentored by [Naomi](http://nsaphra.github.io/). -* **May** Our work on commonsense and factual reasoning done at Adobe MDSR accepted at NAACL 2022. -* **January** Starting my bachelor's thesis with [Prof. Yonatan Belinkov](http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~belinkov/) at the Technion, Israel. +* **May** Two papers on commonsense and factual reasoning done at Adobe MDSR accepted at NAACL 2022! +* **January** Starting my bachelor's thesis with [Yonatan](http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~belinkov/) at the Technion, Israel! **2021** * **November** After a year-long review and revision process, our work evaluating model explanations has been accepted at TACL. In collaboration with [Danish](https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ddanish/).