Senior Research Scientist at Apple working on Siri’s Natural Language Understanding. PhD in NLP and ML from TU Darmstadt, Germany with research in summarization, recommendation, and personalization. MS and B.Tech from IIIT Hyderabad, India.

Previously worked at IBM Watson, Lexical Computing Ltd., and interned at RMIT Search Lab and Apple.

When I’m not at work, I write

• articles for my newsletter - The Avi AI Brief
• my travel experiences blog

I also work on both professional and personal projects.

Other than writing I work through my I’m Possible List. I’ve backpacked across Europe, done a solo bike trip across India, tried paragliding, skiing, scuba diving, and completed a Vipassana meditation course.

1. COLING

   A Retrospective Analysis of the Fake News Challenge Stance-Detection Task

   In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), Aug 2018

   

2. ACL

   Joint Optimization of User-desired Content in Multi-document Summaries by Learning from User Feedback

   In Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Aug 2017

   

3. SPSAL

   Part Of Speech Tagging Using Conditional Random Fields and Transformation Based Learning

   Avinesh P.V.S. and Karthik Gali

   In Proceedings of the Shallow Parsing for South Asian Languages (SPSAL) Workshop, held at IJCAI-07, Jan 2007