CV

Education

• Bachelors of Engineering in Information Technology at Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology, Delhi(CGPA - 9.21/10)
• AISSCSE, Delhi Public School, R.K.Puram, New Delhi (96.4%)

Work experience

• May 2019 - Present : Undergraduate Research Intern, Multimodal Digital Media Analysis Lab, IIITD
  • Advised by Dr.Debanjan Mahata , Research Scientist at Bloomberg, New York and Prof. Rajiv Ratn Shah , \ Assistant Professor at IIITD
  • Internship work includes application of GANs for keyphrase generation, Natural Language Inference tasks for datasets in low-resource languages and code-switched conversation summarisation
• May 2020 - July 2020 : Software Engineering Intern, Microsoft India Development Center
  • Interned at the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Common Data Services team
  • Developed data service features for time of creation in the Dynamics 365 CRM Tool
  • UI, production tested code changes and deployed features to production

Publications

Gender Classification using Facial Embeddings: A Novel Approach

Avinash Swaminathan , Mridul Chaba, Deepak Kumar Sharma,and Yogesh Chaba. Gender Classification using Facial Embeddings: A Novel Approach. Procedia Computer Science , 167:2634 – 2642, 2020. International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Data Science.

Keyphrase generation for scientific articles using gans (student abstract)

Swaminathan, A., Gupta, R. K., Zhang, H., Mahata, D., Gosangi, R., & Shah, R. R. (2020). Keyphrase Generation for Scientific Articles Using GANs (Student Abstract). Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence , 34(10), 13931-13932. https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v34i10.7238

A Preliminary Exploration of GANs for Keyphrase Generation

Avinash Swaminathan, Haimin Zhang, Debanjan Mahata, Rakesh Gosangi, Rajiv Ratn Shah, and Amanda Stent.A preliminary exploration of GANs for keyphrase generation. In Proceedings of the 2020 Conference onEmpirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), pages 8021–8030, Online, November 2020. Associationfor Computational Linguistics.

Two-Step Classification using Recasted Data for Low Resource Settings

Shagun Uppal , Vivek Gupta ,Avinash Swaminathan, Haimin Zhang, Debanjan Mahata, Rakesh Gosangi, Rajiv Ratn Shah, and Amanda Stent.Two-step classification using recasted data for low resource settings. In Proceedings of the 1st Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 10th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing , pages 706–719, Suzhou, China, December 2020. Association for Computational Linguistics.

Talks

Top 10 mistakes not to make during IITJEE Preparation #IITJEE​ #JEEAdvanced

November 28, 2018

IITJEE Talk at Youtube, New Delhi, India

Youtube Webinar on FaceNet: A Unified Embedding for Face Recognition and Clustering

December 15, 2018

Talk at Youtube, New Delhi, India

A Preliminary Exploration of GANs for keyphrase generation - EMNLP 2020 short paper

October 07, 2020

EMNLP Talk at EMNLP, New Delhi, India

Pytorch Tutorial - Chapter 1: Tensors

July 01, 2021

Youtube Tutorial at Youtube, New Delhi, India

Positions of Responsibility

• Vice President, Nakshatra - The Astronomy and Math Club of NSIT
  • Managed and coordinated day-to-day activities of society like publicity of events, weekly meetings, etc.
  • Planned and organized ML competitions for Ephemeris: society’s annual fest
  • Conducted Machine and Deep Learning SIGs for junior students
• MUN and Parliamentary Debator, DebSoc NSIT, Delhi

Awards and Scholarships

• Awarded Gold Medal by DPS Society for excellent scholastic achievement for 4 consecutive years
• Awarded 4-year NSIT Merit Scholarship for outstanding academic performance
• Grand Finalist at Smart India Hackathon 2019
• Special Prize Winner at Hack@BVP 2018
• Awarded Facebook AI scholarship to pursue Deep Learning Nanodegree
• Awarded AAAI student scholarship to attend AAAI 2020, NYC