Nishant Kambhatla
Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
I am a PhD student 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.
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 working towards an integrated Masters degree in Software Engineering.
I occasionally play the percussion instrument Tabla.

nkambhat at sfu dot ca
news
May 2022 |
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Mar 2022 | Our ACL 2022 paper on using ciphertexts to augment neural machine translation is now online. Link to open-source code in the paper. |
Feb 2022 |
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Mar 2021 | Our EACL 2021 paper on faithful attention for NMT is now available online. |
Jan 2021 |
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