Current PhD Students

• Ankit Anand (Co-advising with Parag Singla)
• Arindam Bhattacharya
• Jonathan Bragg (Co-advising with Dan Weld)
• Danish Contractor (Co-advising with Parag Singla)
• Prachi Jain (Co-advising with Soumen Chakrabarti)
• Kolluru Sai Keshav
• Yatin Nandwani (Co-advising with Parag Singla)
• Dinesh Raghu

Current Masters and Undergrad Students

• Akshay Kumar Gupta
• Aditi (Co-advising with Parag Singla)
• Aniket Bajpai
• Shivanshu Gupta
• Shreyan Gupta (Co-advising with Parag Singla)
• Nikhil Gupta
• Pankaj Kumar (Co-advising with Soumen Chakrabarti)
• Sansiddh Jain & Mayank Sharan (Co-advising with Nomesh Bolia)
• Gagan Madan (Co-advising with Parag Singla)
• Bhavesh Sethi (Co-advising with Parag Singla)
• Akshit Tyagi

Previous Post-docs

• Prof. Niranjan Balasubramanian (Co-advised with Oren Etzioni and Stephen Soderland). Generating Coherent Event Schemas at Scale. SUNY Stony Brook.

Graduated PhD Students

• Dr. Christopher H. Lin (Co-advised with Dan Weld). The Intelligent Management of Crowd-Powered Machine Learning (2017). Microsoft Corporation.
• Dr. Janara Christensen (Co-advised with Stephen Soderland). Towards Large Scale Summarization (2014). Google Inc.
• Prof. Alan Ritter (Co-advised with Oren Etzioni). Extracting Knowledge from Twitter and The Web (2013). Ohio State University.
• Dr. Andrey Kolobov (Co-advised with Dan Weld). Scalable Methods and Expressive Models for Planning Under Uncertainty (2013). Honorable mention for ICAPS 2014 Best Dissertation Award. Microsoft Research.
• Dr. Thomas Lin (Co-advised with Oren Etzioni). Leveraging Knowledge Bases in Web Text Processing (2012). Microsoft Corporation.
• Dr. Peng Dai (Co-advised with Dan Weld). Decision Making under Uncertainty: Scalability and Applications (2011). Honorable mention for ICAPS 2012 Best Dissertation Award. Airbnb Inc.

Graduated MS/MTech Students

• Tapas Jain (Co-advised with Parag Singla) Prost vs. OGA-UCT for Probabilistic Planning (2017). QE Securities.
• Swarnadeep Saha. Open IE 5.0 -- Open Information Extraction from Numerical Sentences and Conjunctive Sentences (2017). Suresh Chandra Memorial Award for best IITD-CSE M.Tech. Project. IBM Inc.
• Karan Goel. A Framework for Cost-Quality-Time Optimization in Crowdsourcing (2016). Graduate Student, Carnegie Mellon University.
• Harinder Pal. Extraction from Compound Nouns and Numerical Expressions for Open IE (2016). Microsoft Inc.
• Ajay Rathee (Co-advised with Jayadeva). Analysis of Minimal Complexity Machine and Compressive Sensing in Text Analytics (2016). Defense Research and Development Organisation.
• Madhur Gupta. Knowledge Concept Maps (2016). Goldman Sachs Inc.
• Sherjil Ozair. Domain Adaptation of Word Embeddings (2015). Baidu Inc.
• Aman Madaan (Co-advised with Ganesh Ramakrishnan and Sunita Sarawagi). Numerical Relation Extraction with Minimal Supervision (2015). Visa Inc.
• Ashish Mittal (Co-advised with Ganesh Ramakrishnan and Sunita Sarawagi). Numerical Relation Extraction with Minimal Supervision (2015). IBM Inc.
• Abhishek Yadav. An Open-IE based Approach for Knowledge-Base Population (2015). Visa Inc.
• Dan Butler. Talking about Data: Web Text Can Aid Causal Structure Learning (2014).Continuing in the PhD program.
• Jonathan Bragg (Co-advised with Dan Weld). Match-making for the Crowd: Asking More Informative Questions (2014). Continuing in the PhD program.
• Melissa Winstanley. Exploring Sentence Partitioning for Multi-Paragraph Multi-Document Summarization (2013). Facebook Inc.
• Christopher Lin (Co-advised with Dan Weld). Two Decision-Theoretic Solutions for Crowdsourcing (2012). Continuing in the PhD program.
• Dr. Janara Christensen (Co-advised with Stephen Soderland). Semantic Role Labeling for Open Information Extraction (2010). Google Inc.
• Bo Qin (Co-advised with Stephen Soderland). Readability Classifier for Natural Language Text (2010).
• Dr. Andrey Kolobov (Co-advised with Dan Weld). ReTrASE: Unifying Two Paradigms for Approximate Probabilistic Planning (2009). Microsoft Research.
• Dr. Peng Dai (Co-advised with Dan Weld). External Memory Algorithms for MDPs (2008). Google Inc.
• Dr. Jiun-Hung Chen (Co-advised with Dan Weld). Naive-Bayes POMDPs (2005). Amazon Inc.

Undergrad Students Advised

• Haroun Habeeb (Co-advised with Parag Singla). Coarse to Fine Lifted MAP Inference for Computer Vision (2017). IITD-CSE Award for Best Hardcore Experimental Project. Graduate Student, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne.
• Surag Nair. Periodic Event Extraction from Unstructured Text (2017). Graduate Student, Stanford University.
• Barun Patra (Co-advised with Parag Singla). Understanding And Answering Multi-sentence Recommendation Questions on Tourism (2017). Graduate Student, Carnegie Mellon University.
• J. Shikhar Murty (Co-advised with Soumen Chakrabarti). Inference over Knowledge Bases (2017). Intern, University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
• Poojan Mehta (Co-advised with Parag Singla). Novel Query Representation of Travel-related Forum Questions (2016). AlphaGrep | Inc.
• Ritesh Noothigattu (Co-advised with Parag Singla). On-The-Go Abstractions in UCT for MDP Planning (2016). Suresh Chandra Memorial Award for best IITD-CSE B.Tech. Project. Graduate Student, Carnegie Mellon University.
• Shreya Rajpal. A Framework for Cost-Quality-Time Optimization in Crowdsourcing (2016). Graduate Student, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
• Aditya Grover (Co-advised with Parag Singla). A Unified Abstraction Framework for Sequential Decision Making (2015). IITD-CSE Award for Best Hardcore Experimental Project. Graduate Student, Stanford University.
• Gagan Bansal. Multi-paragraph Summarization (2015). Graduate Student, University of Washington, Seattle.
• Shashank Jain. Value of Contribution in Micro-Crowdsourcing (2015). Rubrik, Inc..
• Benjamin Sidhom. Student Modeling in Educational Environments (2013). eBay Inc.
• Ryan Oman. Integrating Coreference Resolution with ReVerb/R2A2 (2011).
• Brendan Roof (Co-advised with Stephen Soderland). Finding and Applying Relational Nouns (2010). Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence.
• Benjamin Lee. Extending PanDictionary (2009). Google Inc.
• Michael Skinner (Co-advised with Stephen Soderland). Compiling a Panlingual Dictionary (2008). Dueto Research.