ML India Podcast: Recent Episodes
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We spoke with Prof. Balaraman Ravindran from IIT Madras. He is a worldwide authority on Reinforcement learning. Our conversations span from Reinforcement learning to Graphs to Grad school in India.
Welcome to the ML India Podcast, where we speak with people in India that are doing really cool things with data. Our guest today is Dr Preethi Jyothi, who leads the Computational Speech and Language Technologies lab at IIT Bombay. Prior to joining IIT Bombay, she was a post-doc at the Beckman Institute at UIUC and is an authority on accents and speech processing systems. We had a great conversation spanning her experience at IIT Bombay, and how she manages the intricacies of ML Research Methodology.
In this episode of the ML India Podcast, we talk to Dr Monojit Choudhry a Principal Researcher from Microsoft Research India about Low Resource NLP, his experiences at ACL2020 and what Microsoft Research looks for while hiring. Since the recording of this episode, his paper at ACL has gained a lot of attention and was even highlighted in Sebastian Ruder's newsletter. https://ruder.io/nlp-beyond-english/. You can read the original paper at https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.09095
0:00 Intro
1:06 Monojit Introduction and his current work
5:20 Impressions on Virtual ACL 2020
12:20 Challenges in Low Resource NLP
24:10 Open Problems in Zero Shot Multilingual Transfer Learning
34:10 The environment of Social Computing Research in India
37:26 Linguistic Bias and how bias is different in India
43:09 The Research Environment at MSR India
47:49 What MSR Looks for when hiring researchers
52:35 A Golden Question for Junior Researchers looking to get into NLP
55:56 Panini Linguistics Olympiad