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”.

Interested in localization for Bodo language. Join Bodo Mozilla Pontoon team!
News:
  • [Jan 29, 2025] Had JRF to SRF conversion seminar - officially transitioned from Junior to Senior Research Fellow. Time flies!
  • [Dec 22, 2024] Won Best Poster Award (2nd) at IndoML 2024. Check out the poster
  • [Dec 11, 2024] Attending IndoML 2024 at BITS Pilani Goa
  • [Oct 2, 2024] Our MT system submission ranked first for MultiIndic22MT shared task at WMT 24.
  • [Sep 13, 2024] Gave my Research Proposal Seminar (RPS). Ready to embark on my research journey.
  • [Nov 6, 2023] 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.
  • [Oct 8, 2023] 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.
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