Hi! I’m Maharaj Brahma, a third-year PhD student at Natural Language and Information Processing (NLIP) Lab in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (IITH). I’m fortunate to be supervised by Prof. Maunendra Sankar Desarkar and Dr. Anoop Kunchukuttan. My research interests include Multilingual NLP focusing on low-resource languages, Culture Intelligence in Large Language Models (LLMs), and Machine Translation for low-resource languages. I am also interested in building resources for low-resource languages.
Prior to joining the Ph.D. program, I completed my Master of Technology (M.Tech.) at Central Institute of Technology Kokrajhar (CITK), CFTI, Deemed to be University under MoE, India. I was fortunate to be supervised by Prof. Sanjib Narzary, and I worked on Machine Translation for the under-resourced Indian language Bodo. I served as a Teaching Assistant (TA) for the master’s course Advanced Computer Network Lab (PCSE271) and the undergraduate course Programming for Problem Solving Lab (UCSE271). I was a TA for the master’s course Mobile and Pervasive Computing (PCSE115), instructed by Prof. Pranav Kumar Singh.
In 2020, I had the good fortune to co-found a startup “DigitalOma” along with my friends.
I received my Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Computer Science & Engineering from CIT Kokrajhar, India in 2019 and worked on a thesis titled “English-Bodo Neural Machine Translation using Attention Mechanism”.
News:
- Had JRF to SRF conversion seminar - officially transitioned from Junior to Senior Research Fellow. Time flies!
- Won Best Poster Award (2nd) at IndoML 2024. Check out the poster
- Attending IndoML 2024 at BITS Pilani Goa
- Our MT system submission ranked first for MultiIndic22MT shared task at WMT 24.
- Gave my Research Proposal Seminar (RPS). Ready to embark on my research journey.
- Humbled to receive the ACL Diversity and Inclusion Award (D&I Award). Making in-person attendance of EMNLP 2023 possible. Heartfelt thanks to the D&I team.
- My first paper got accepted! Paper titled SelectNoise: Unsupervised Noise Injection to Enable Zero-Shot Machine Translation for Extremely Low-resource Languages accepted at EMNLP 2023. Super thanks to my awesome senior Kaushal and supervisor Prof. Maunendra for their constant guidance and support.
- Paper Accepted! Paper titled AutoBookFinder: A Case Study of Automated Book Rack Identification in Library through UGV accepted at 23rd International Conference on Innovations for Community Services (I4CS)
- Selected as Virtual Student Volunteer for ACL 2023
- Paper Accepted! Paper titled AI and Blockchain-based Source Code Vulnerabilty Detection and Prevention System for Multiparty Software Development accepted at Journal of Computer and Electrical Engineering
- Paper Accepted! Paper titled IntelliStore: IoT and AI-based Intelligent Storage Monitoring for Perishable Food accepted at Internet Technology Letters
- Data Resource! Open source Bodo Words Corpus - Now available at Hugging face and GitHub
- Selected for 6th Summer School on AI with Focus on Computer Vision and Machine Learning hosted by IIIT-H
- Selected for SICSS-Delhi 2022
- Presented poster titled A Computational Approach for the Tonal Identification in Bodo Language alongside Mwnthai at NERC, IIT Guwahati
- Paper Accepted! Paper titled GROUP: Global RObUst and Privacy Preserved Model for Diabetes Prediction accepted at TENSYMP 2022
- Paper Accepted! Our work Generating Monolingual Dataset for Low Resource Language Bodo from old books using Google Keep accepted at LREC 2022