Ashutosh Adhikari

I work on cool stuff as an Applied Scientist at Microsoft Turing. Broadly, I work on large scale training of language technologies with applications for dialog agents. I am one of the core members responsible for developing the Bing Chat released on Feb 6, 2023!

Before that, I graduated with an MMath in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo where I worked on natural language processing and machine learning under the supervision of Jimmy Lin and Pascal Poupart. I had recieved the David R. Cheriton Graduate Scholarship at the University of Waterloo.

During my time at UWaterloo, I was a research intern at Mila from the fall of 2019 to the summer of 2020, where I worked with William L. Hamilton in collaboration with Microsoft Research, Montreal on using structured representations to develop generalizable policies for playing text-based games.

Before that, I completed my BTech (Honors) in Information and Communication Technology with minor in Computational Science in 2018 from DA-IICT, Gandhinagar, India. I was a research intern at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore in the winter of 2018 and spent the summer of 2017 at the Video Analytics Lab at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru.

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Research

I'm broadly interested in natural language processing, graph representation learning and reinforcement learning. I have worked on simplifying models for document processing and developing general policies to solve text-based games.

	Learning Dynamic Belief Graphs to Generalize on Text-based Games Ashutosh Adhikari^, Xingdi Yuan^, Marc-Alexandre Côté^, Mikulás Zelinka, Marc-Antoine Rondeau, Romain Laroche, Pascal Poupart, Jian Tang, Adam Trischler, William L. Hamilton Accepted as a Poster at NeurIPS 2020*
	Exploring the Limits of Simple Learners in Knowledge Distillation for Document Classification with DocBERT Ashutosh Adhikari, Achyudh Ram, Raphael Tang, William L. Hamilton, Jimmy Lin Accepted at the RepL4NLP workshop at ACL 2020
	DocBERT : BERT for Document Classification Ashutosh Adhikari, Achyudh Ram, Raphael Tang, Jimmy Lin Posted on arXiv.org
	A POMDP-based Context Aware Approach for Trust Modeling Ashutosh Adhikari, Robin Cohen Accepted at the TRUST workshop at AAMAS 2019
	Rethinking Complex Neural Network Architectures for Document Classification Ashutosh Adhikari^, Achyudh Ram^, Raphael Tang, Jimmy Lin Accepted as an Oral at NAACL-HLT 2019
	FLOPs as a Direct Optimization Objective for Learning Sparse Neural Networks Raphael Tang, Ashutosh Adhikari, Jimmy Lin Accepted at the Complex Deep Neural Networks with industrial applications workshop at NeurIPS 2018
	Comprehensive study of features for subject-independent emotion recognition Ashutosh Adhikari, Savitha Ramasamy, Suresh Sundaram Accepted as a Poster at IJCNN 2017

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