Partha Talukdar
Scholar

Partha Talukdar

Google Scholar ID: CIZwXAcAAAAJ
Google DeepMind
LLMsNatural Language ProcessingMachine Learning
Citations & Impact
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Citations
10,741
 
H-index
41
 
i10-index
87
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
161
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Elected Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) in 2024.
  • Recipient of the ACM India Early Career Award 2022 (awarded in 2023).
  • Received Outstanding Paper Award at ACL 2019.
  • IBM Faculty Award recipient in 2016.
  • Multiple Google Focused Research Awards (2015, 2016).
  • Received an Accenture Open Innovation grant in 2015.
  • Served in key roles: Action Editor for TACL (since 2020), Area Co-Chair for ACL 2016, Senior PC Member for IJCAI 2016, PC Co-Chair for CODS 2017.
  • Delivered tutorials and invited talks at top conferences including EMNLP 2019, ICML 2019, and KDD 2018.
Background
  • Currently leads the Languages Group at Google DeepMind India and serves as a lead in Gemini Multilinguality.
  • Aims to ensure that Gemini and AI benefit all of humanity by removing language and cultural barriers.
  • Works on all aspects of LLM development (pretraining, posttraining, evaluations), with impact on Google products like Gemini App, Assistant, and Search.
  • Founded KENOME to help enterprises make sense of unstructured data using Knowledge Graphs.
  • Former faculty member at IISc Bangalore, researching NLP, ML, and Knowledge Graphs.
  • Recent research focuses on multilingual and multimodal learning, learning in low-resource settings, and multicultural learning in the context of LLMs.