Sumit Agarwal

I am a second year MLT student (Masters in Language Technologies) in the Language Technologies Institute, School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University advised by Prof. Teruko Mitamura.

I have developed a keen interest in the recent advancements in NLP, such as GPT-4, ChatGPT, DALLE, and their ability to comprehend human language and perform equally well across diverse tasks. My research focuses on applying deep learning techniques to a variety of NLP tasks, including question answering, information extraction, code generation, summarization, often in a zero or few-shot setting and across multiple languages and modalities.

Before coming to CMU, I worked in Samsung Research Institute, Bangalore, India for four years where I was working in the Voice Intelligence Team, Bixby, on task oriented dialogue systems. I was a part of the team which was responsible for shipping the voice assistant across multiple domains and devices in a seamless manner. I graduated with a B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur in 2017. In my Bachelor’s thesis under Prof. Niloy Ganguly, I worked on modeling opinion dynamics in social networks using recurrent neural networks.

In my leisure time, I love cooking different recipes from Indian cuisine, especially biryani. I also like to click photographs and watch movies and documenteries.