Scholar
Vishakh Padmakumar
Google Scholar ID: OeBKZ8AAAAAJ
New York University
Citations & Impact
Citations
3,536
H-index
17
i10-index
18
Publications
20
Co-authors
5
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- - September 2025: Moved to Stanford to join Diyi's lab
- - July 2025: Internship work on creating schemas to compare research papers accepted to EMNLP Findings
- - May 2025: Internship work from Adobe accepted to ACL 2025
- - April 2025: Passed thesis defense
- - January 2025: Gave a talk titled 'Side Effects May Include Homogenization and Overusing Cliches'
- - September 2024: Interning with the Semantic Scholar research team
- - June 2024: Attended Creativity and Cognition in Chicago, presented work on analyzing perspectives from emerging professional writers
- - May 2024: Interned with the Document Intelligence Lab at Adobe; attended ICLR 2024 to present work on diversity in collaborative writing; gave a talk at Oxford, UK
- - March 2024: Gave virtual talks at Bocconi University and the University of Melbourne
- - December 2023: Attended EMNLP 2023 and helped give a tutorial on Creative Natural Language Generation
- - July 2023: Presented work on extrapolative generation with iterative refinement at ICML 2023; co-chair for the ACL 2023 Student Research Workshop with Gisela Vallejo and Yao Fu
Research Experience
- - Post-doctoral researcher at Stanford, working with Diyi Yang
- - Helped organize the NYU NLP and Text-as-Data talk series
- - Interned with AWS, Amazon Alexa AI, and LAER.AI while in grad school
- - Interned with the Document Intelligence Lab at Adobe, working on long document generation prioritizing diversity of content with Jennifer Healey, David Arbour, and Tong Sun
Education
- - PhD, Center for Data Science at New York University, advised by Prof. He He
- - MS in Computer Science, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at NYU, Graduate Research Associate at the Center for Social Media and Politics, working on political stance classification and multimodal content sharing in online disinformation campaigns
- - BS, National Institute of Technology - Karnataka, thesis advised by Prof. Sowmya Kamath
Background
- Research interests include: how AI agents shape the future of work, supporting co-creativity with foundation models, eliciting more diverse and novel LLM outputs for applications like scientific discovery, and methods and effects of personalizing output from LLMs.
Miscellany
- Personal blog available for more light-hearted content.
