“We are like dwarfs sitting on the shoulders of giants. We see more, and things that are more distant, than they did, not because our sight is superior or because we are taller than they, but because they raise us up, and by their great stature add to ours.”

attributed to John of Salisbury, learn more here.

About me (academically speaking).

I am a Computer Science researcher, primarily in the field of natural language processing. My big picture interests could be ambitiously considered universal (“of all the peoples, by all the peoples, and for all the peoples”?) learning and technologies, and this motivates many of my pursuits in teaching, community (most of my service), and FOSS. This means as an NLP researcher I currently focus on datasets and algorithms for low-resource, multilingual, and cross-lingual challenges in Universal NLP.

I am currently a first year PhD student in Computer Science at Georgetown University. I am working with Prof. Nathan Schneider and other NERTlings, and also part of GUCL. Before this, I was a master’s student at CU Boulder, working with Prof. Katharina von der Wense and the NALA Group.

Languages

Luke Gessler says that “linguists are often asked how many languages they speak” and now that I will be in the company of a bunch of them, so here are mine: Kannada(kan)(native, ~B1 level), Hindi(hin)(intermediate, ~B1 level), English(eng)(professional, ~C1 level), bits and pieces of Spanish(spa)(~17k Duolingo XP). My next language goals are to be able to converse in Spanish and to read Konkani(kok) with Kannada script.

Similarly, if you ask me how many programming languages I can program in, I will say (like I tell my students) “it’s not about the number of programming language(s), it’s about the principles” but then go on to to say I have programmed in many languages: Python (research and tooling), Java (enterprise cloud software), Scala (TAing and side projects, linkedin assessment), C (let’s say structs and pointers), Javascript (up to JQuery, +Angular, Node), and Kotlin (graduate software engineering project).

My next programming language target is Julia, which I hope to make my go-to for numerical computations and visualization (for the near future).

Contact

My email is ap DOT 2089 AT georgetown DOT edu, but I prefer using Linkedin messaging for non-academic professional conversations.

Professional details

Depending on your intention, you can check my most recent CV here, or my Linkedin profile here for details of my professional background.

Writing, Code, Books

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Writing

I write technical and non-technical blog articles infrequently, you can find them on my medium site here.

Code and other projects

I do have public repositories and open-source or public contributions which can be seen in my Github profile here.

Bookshelf

I like to read (largely fiction) and for better or worse track it on Goodreads. If you are interested you can find my shelves here. If you ever meet me, feel free to ask for a personalized recommendation :).

Bookstore recommendations

I try and visit (preferably independent) bookstores when I travel and below are some recommendations, in no particular order.

In Bengaluru, Blossom Book House.

In Boulder, The Bookworm.

In San Jose, Recycle Bookstore.

In San Francisco, City Lights Booksellers & Publishers.

In Seattle, Mercer Street Books.

In Washington DC, Capitol Hill Books.

Bookstore Wishlist

If you have been to any of these, feel free to ping me and gush about it :D

Powell’s in Portland.

Verbatim Books in San Diego (Instagram recommendation :D)

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