Chinnadhurai Sankar
Scholar

Chinnadhurai Sankar

Google Scholar ID: KynAS2gAAAAJ
Meta
Machine learningDeep learningArtificial IntelligenceConversational AI
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
1,279
 
H-index
13
 
i10-index
18
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
22
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • - Best Paper award, SIGDIAL 2019
  • - Best Paper Honorable Mention, EACL 2021 & ACL 2019
  • - Multiple papers published in top conferences and journals like EMNLP, NAACL, TMLR, etc.
  • - Launched Llama3.1-ELM-Turbo model series
  • - Released ELM-V1 model collection
  • - Senior PC for CoLLAs 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022
  • - Area Chair for ACL ARR 2021
  • - Co-organized NILLI @ EMNLP-22 and NILLI 2023
Research Experience
  • - Research Scientist at Meta
  • - Research Lead at SliceX AI
  • - Involved in multiple research projects such as ELM-Turbo, Project CAIRaoke, etc.
  • - Formerly a Research Scientist at Facebook AI, focusing on conversational AI
Education
  • Ph.D. from the University of Montreal, MILA lab, advised by Prof. Yoshua Bengio; Bachelor's degree from IIT Madras, majoring in Electrical Engineering and minoring in Physics; Master's degree in ECE from Purdue University.
Background
  • Research Focus: NLP, Conversational AI, On-device AI, DeepLearning, Deep RL.
Miscellany
  • Personal interests and other information not provided