Scholar
Utkarsh Tyagi
Google Scholar ID: RLjKaTwAAAAJ
University of Maryland, College Park
Citations & Impact
Citations
509
H-index
12
i10-index
13
Publications
20
Co-authors
11
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Aug 2024: Awarded $7,000 Fellowship at UMD: Project on EEG-based Brain-Computer Interaction using LLMs! Mar 2024: 1 paper accepted to InterSpeech 2024! Mar 2024: 2 papers accepted to ACL 2024! Mar 2024: 2 papers accepted to NAACL 2024! Jan 2024: Paper accepted to ICLR 2024. Dec 2023: Attended EMNLP in-person in Singapore! Oct 2023: 2 papers accepted to EMNLP 2023! Aug 2023: Started my MS in CS at the University of Maryland, College Park! Jul 2023: Paper accepted to ICCV 2023! May 2023: Paper accepted to Interspeech 2023! Apr 2023: Paper accepted to ACL 2023! Apr 2023: Paper accepted to SIGIR 2023! Dec 2022: Paper on implicit hate speech detection in online conversations accepted in De-factify 2 @ AAAI 2023! Sep 2022: 2 patents filed with Atlassian on incident management in multi-party communication channels! Sep 2022: Promoted to Software Engineer 2 at Atlassian! Sep 2022: Started collaborating with the Gamma Lab at the University of Maryland, College Park! Mar 2022: Joined MIDAS Lab, IIIT Delhi. More details on the research can be found in the Research section! Jul 2021: Started as a Software Engineer at Atlassian!
Research Experience
- Worked as a Software Engineer II at Atlassian, India; part-time researcher at MIDAS Labs @ IIIT Delhi under the supervision of Prof. Rajiv Ratn Shah, working on disfluency detection in speech and complex named entity recognition; interned in the Voice Intelligence team at Samsung Research Institute, Bangalore, improving Bixby's wakeup word detection and building a vocabulary-independent, lightweight keyword spotter; also worked as a research intern at the Samsung Innovation Lab, DTU, developing an AI-powered mobile camera-based application to calculate sustained attention span using a candle flame test.
Education
- Graduated with a Bachelor’s in Computer Science and Engineering from Delhi Technological University in 2021; started his MS in CS at the University of Maryland, College Park in August 2023.
Background
- Currently an M.S. in C.S. student at the University of Maryland, College Park. At UMCP, he works under the guidance of Prof. Dinesh Manocha and Prof. Ramani Duraiswami at Gamma Lab on various problems in speech, language, and audio processing. He is currently working on video representation learning for long-form video understanding.
Miscellany
- Email ID: utkarsht@umd.edu, utkarsh4430@gmail.com
