Manya Wadhwa
Scholar

Manya Wadhwa

Google Scholar ID: 4_uMjzgAAAAJ
PhD Student @ UT Austin
Natural Language Processing
Citations & Impact
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Citations
313
 
H-index
6
 
i10-index
6
 
Publications
13
 
Co-authors
10
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Published multiple papers in international conferences such as COLM 2025, ICLR 2025, covering topics like testing visual reasoning capabilities, discovering implicit evaluation criteria, and evaluating feedback protocols for bias in LLM-based evaluation.
Research Experience
  • Previously an Associate Research Engineer with the R&D team at Goldman Sachs for three years, working closely with Vijay Saraswat, Johannes Hoffart, and Luciano Del Corro on Document AI and Conversation Understanding specific to Finance.
Education
  • PhD student, co-advised by Professor Greg Durrett and Professor Junyi Jessy Li. Started PhD at UT Austin and moved to NYU (Courant) to continue. Master's in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University, and undergrad from IIIT-Delhi majoring in Computer Science.
Background
  • Interested in understanding how LLMs perform at creative tasks and the strategies they employ to solve them. Also interested in developing methods to make language models more creative.
Miscellany
  • Contact: mw4141@nyu.edu, manya.wadhwa@utexas.edu; Pronouns: she/her; Social media: Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Scholar, GitHub