Scholar
Raj Dabre
Google Scholar ID: x91u618AAAAJ
Researcher@NICT (Japan), Adjunct Faculty@IIT Madras/AI4Bharat (India)
Citations & Impact
Citations
2,422
H-index
22
i10-index
46
Publications
20
Co-authors
142
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Co-creator of IndicBART, IndicTrans2, Airavata, YANMTT, and Whisper-Streaming. Holds a Japanese patent on flexible decoding of generative models. Reviewer/committee member for venues such as ACL, NAACL, IJCAI, EMNLP since 2012, and area chair for ACL, NAACL, EMNLP, and EACL since 2022. Organizer of the Workshop on Asian Translation (WAT) since 2018 and the M3Oriental workshop since 2023.
Research Experience
- Senior Research Scientist at Google Research Australia, also an Adjunct Faculty at IIT Madras, and a Honorary Visiting Assistant Professor at IIT Bombay. Previously, a Researcher at NICT, Japan, under the direction of Masao Utiyama.
Education
- Ph.D. in Informatics from Kyoto University, supervised by Prof. Sadao Kurohashi; M.Tech. in Computer Science from IIT Bombay, supervised by the late Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya; Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Mumbai, India.
Background
- Research interests include post-training of large language models, reinforcement learning, multilingualism, machine and speech translation, efficiency, low-resource languages (especially Indic and Creole). Currently working at Google Research Australia, focusing on the Gemini project.
Miscellany
- Hobbies include astronomy, reading (history, sci-fi, and evolution), video games (Steam Deck and Nintendo Switch), and is a big fan of anime and manga. Speaks English, Hindi, Marathi, and Japanese.
