Neeraj Varshney
Ph.D. student
Natural Language Processing (NLP)
2019‐Present

I'm a third year Ph.D. student at Arizona State University working in Natural Language Processing/Understanding with Dr. Chitta Baral.
I work in Question Answering, Selective Prediction, Robustness, Learning from Less Supervision, Multi-task Learning, Efficient Evaluations and several other areas of Natural Langauge Understanding. I'm proficient in developing and applying state-of-the-art ML/NLP techniques in Python using libraries such as PyTorch, PyTorch-Lightning, Transformers, and Spacy.
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Presented my papers at ACL 2022 in Ireland.
Applied Scientist internship at Amazon Science in Seattle.
My work Let the Model Decide its Curriculum for Multitask Learning has been accepted at DeepLo @NAACL 2022.
My work Benchmarking Generalization via In-Context Instructions on 1,600+ Language Tasks is on arXiv.
Awarded Spring 2022 ASU GPSA Travel Award.
Reviewed for Open-Domain Retrieval Under a Multi-Modal Setting workshop CVPR 2022.
Awarded Graduate College Travel Award from ASU.
My work Towards Improving Selective Prediction Ability of NLP Systems has been accepted at Repl4NLP @ACL 2022.
Awarded SCAI conference award.
My work ILDAE: Instance-Level Difficulty Analysis of Evaluation Data has been accepted at ACL 2022.
My work NumGLUE: A Suite of Fundamental yet Challenging Mathematical Reasoning Tasks has been accepted at ACL 2022.
My work Unsupervised Natural Language Inference Using PHL Triplet Generation has been accepted at ACL 2022.
My work Investigating Selective Prediction Approaches Across Several Tasks in IID, OOD, and Adversarial Settings has been accepted at ACL 2022.
My work An Architecture for Novelty Handling in a Multi-Agent Stochastic Environment: Case Study in Open-World Monopoly has been accepted at Designing Artificial Intelligence for Open Worlds spring symposium @ AAAI 2022.
Mentered class projects for Natural Language Processing course at ASU.
Started Computer Science Ph.D. program at Arizona State Univeristy.
Joined Microsoft India as a Software Developer.
Completed B.E. in Computer Science with Distinction (GPA: 9.11) at Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani.
Internship at Microsoft.
Internship at Samsung R&D Institute.
Internship at Valuefirst Digital Media.
Started B.E. in Computer Science at Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani.