Hi! I’m Maharaj Brahma, a first-year Ph.D. 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 Dr. Maunendra Sankar Desarkar. My current research interests include Machine translation for low-resource languages, Multilingual NLP, and 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 (sir) Mr. 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 (sir) Dr. 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:
- 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