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viraunak@microsoft.com

I am a Research Scientist in the Machine Translation Team at Microsoft. I received my MS in Language Technologies at the School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, advised by professor Florian Metze. Prior to that, I graduated from IIT Indore, India with a B.Tech in Computer Science & Engineering and the President of India Gold Medal.

My research interests are mainly in Sequence Modeling, Evaluation and Reliability with a strong focus on large-scale natural language (text and speech) applications. Specifically, I am interested in:

  • Building reliable computational models & evaluations which could capture rich sequence-level phenomena at different scales.

  • Building controllable systems which could allow accessible customizations & interventions at different levels of abstraction.

The overarching mission of my research is to help build scalable, efficient and trustworthy natural language models & applications which could be reliably used in rich (multi-modal, multi-lingual) real-world settings.