Hello! I'm Milind Agarwal and I'm a final year Computer Science PhD student at George Mason University. I'm extremely lucky to be funded by the Mason Doctoral Research Scholars 2024-25 fellowship and the Stanford SILICON research grant. I'm currently doing research in Scalable Data Extraction and Modeling - exploring research challenges in multimodality, language identification, and optical character recognition (OCR). I'm lucky to be advised by Prof. Antonis Anastasopoulos and be a part of GMU's NLP lab .
I'm on the job market for Research/Data Scientist roles in academia/industry starting next year (May 2025)!
Before starting my PhD at Mason, I spent four years in Baltimore at Johns Hopkins University, where I completed my BS and MSE degrees in Computer Science. During my undergraduate years, I spent a few memorable summers interning with Prof. David Yarowsky , Prof. Janet Markle, and Prof. Alexis Battle, with whom I cultivated my interest in academic research.
News
- July 2024: I was accepted into Stanford University's SILICON Practitioners program!
- May 2024: I received the Doctoral Research Scholar 2024-25 (independent research) fellowship by George Mason University!
- April 2024: My paper "A Concise Survey of OCR on Low-Resource Languages" was accepted at AmericasNLP Workshop at NAACL 2024. See you in Mexico City!
- April 2024: Presented "Script-Agnostic Language Identification" at SouthNLP 2024@Emory and MASC-SLL 2024@JHU ( Best Paper Award )
- March 2024: Invited talk on "Language Identification" at Notre Dame University! (LangID)
- Dec 2023: I presented my work, LIMIT (hierarchical language identification), at EMNLP 2023's Main Conference in Singapore!
- I was accepted to attend the CRA's Grad Cohort Workshop for Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Leadership Skills (IDEALS) in Honolulu, Hawaii!
Email: magarwa at gmu dot edu
Twitter: @milind_ag
GitHub: @magarw