Souvik Kundu
Senior Applied Scientist, Microsoft, USA
Email: sokun[at]microsoft[dot]com
Research Interest
NLP, Deep Learning, LLM
Text-to-SQL, Semantic Parsing, Question Answering, Multi-step Reasoning, Dialogue Systems, Information Extraction, Natural Language Understanding
Automatic Speech Recognition, Acoustic Factor Adaptation, Noise Robustness, Model-based Adaptation
About me
I am a Senior Applied Scientist at Microsoft. I did my PhD at the department of Computer Science, National University of Singapore, under the supervision of Prof Hwee Tou Ng. My research interests are primarily in Applied Machine Learning and Deep Learning. My PhD thesis is focused on Neural Network-based Question Answering (QA) systems. In the starting years of my PhD, I also worked with Dr. Khe Chai Sim.
Education
2014-2020: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science
2010-2014: Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunication
Experience
2019-Present: Microsoft, Redmond, USA.
2018: Research Intern, Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Seattle, USA.
2015: Student Research Intern, Jelinek Summer Workshop of Speech and Language Technology, University of Washington, Seattle, USA.