Category: Students of NLP
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NLP MS Student Kargi Chauhan to Present at NeurIPS 2025
First Year NLP MS student Kargi Chauhan will be presenting “VFSI: Validity First Spatial Intelligence for Constraint-Guided Traffic Diffusion”, a paper she co-authored with UCSC CSE Asst. Prof. Leilani Gilpin, at NeurIPS 2025 – San Diego. This work represents a major advance in ensuring the safety and reliability of generative AI models for autonomous systems.…
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UCSC NLP Shines at BayLearn 2025
The UCSC Natural Language Processing (NLP) Master’s program had a strong presence at the BayLearn 2025 symposium, a major event for machine learning researchers in the Bay Area. Key highlights include faculty leadership bi Prof. Ian Lane and Prof. Leilani Gilpin, both of whom served on the BayLearn 2025 organizing committee, and student research presented…
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Student Spotlight: Dhananjay Sonawane
Undergraduate major: Bachelor’s in Electronics and Telecommunication Undergraduate Institution: Sardar Patel Institute of Technology First master’s degree: Master’s of Computer Science, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar Dhananjay is an Natural Language Processing MS student with a professional background in machine learning. Alongside being a student, Dhananjay is building an Alexa TaskBot and serves as a teaching…
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Student Spotlight: Shashwat Pandey
Undergraduate major: BTech Electrical, Electronics, and Communication Engineering Undergraduate Institution: Jaypee Institute of Information Technology Hometown: Kanpur, India Passionate about NLP research, Shashwat aims to solve problems within NLP, as well as in society, using NLP technology and contribute to the rapid growth of the field. Shashwat also brings to the program interdisciplinary interests in linguistics and ethics…
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Student Spotlight: Sugam Garg
Undergraduate major: BE Computer Science Undergraduate Institution: BITS-Pilani Hometown: Noeda, Inda After 4 years of working in industry, Sugam comes to the NLP MS program with a drive to learn about NLP theory and how to build NLP models. As a Student Ambassador, he brings people together, socially and academically, and hopes to eventually apply his NLP skills…
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Student Spotlight: Mridul Pankaj Khanna
Undergraduate major: BE Computer Engineering Undergraduate Institution: Pune Institute of Computer Technology Hometown: Mumbai, India Driven by his interest in NLP, Mridul joined the NLP program after working in the gaming industry for 4 years. He hopes to eventually apply the skills gained in the program to an engineering role in NLP or machine learning. He currently…