Nishant Kambhatla

I am a PhD student candidate in the School of Computing Science at Simon Fraser University where I work as a part of the NatLang Lab advised by Professor Anoop Sarkar.

I work at the intersection of Natural Language Processing and Deep Learning. I’m broadly interested in building multilingual models. My current research focus is on machine learning for multilingual models for neural machine translation and computational decipherment. Until recently, I was working on explainability for neural machine translation. Outside of my PhD, I work as a Research Scientist at Emtelligent, focusing on medical/clinical NLP and generative AI.

I graduated with Masters in Computer Science in 2018 from SFU. I defended my MSc thesis in July 2018 on natural language decipherment under the supervision of Professor Anoop Sarkar and Professor Fred Popowich. Prior to joining SFU, I was an undergrad at Vellore Institute of Telchnology from 2011 - 2016 and earned my Masters degree in Software Engineering.

I occasionally play the percussion instrument Tabla.