Hello! I'm Milind Agarwal, a software engineer and researcher interested in natural language processing, multilinguality, and AI more broadly. I recently defended my PhD (Oct 2025) in the Computer Science Department at George Mason University.
My dissertation/thesis research focused on developing techniques for scalable data extraction and modeling for low-resource languages, and explored major bottlenecks in making AI models more multilingual and localizable. During my PhD, I was extremely lucky and blessed to be advised by Prof. Antonis Anastasopoulos and be a part of GMU's NLP lab .
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
- Oct 2025: I passed my public thesis defense! PhD complete!
- Sept 2025: I passed my dissertation pre-defense. Some revisions to make and then ready to defend!
- Apr 2025: One main conference paper on script agnostic language ID at NAACL 2025! See you in New Mexico!
- Feb 2025: Two papers on NLP for endangered languages accepted to Comput-EL'25! See you in Hawaii!
- Nov 2024: I passed my dissertation proposal defense! I'm officially a PhD candidate!
Email: magarwa at gmu dot edu
Twitter: @milind_ag
GitHub: @magarw