Hello! I'm Milind Agarwal and I'm a PhD candidate in George Mason University's Computer Science program. My thesis research focuses on developing techniques for scalable data extraction and modeling for low-resource languages, and explores 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 .
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
- Sept 2025: I passed my dissertation pre-defense. All set to defend and graduate this semester!
- 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!
- Jul 2024: Awarded the Doctoral Research Scholar 2024-25 fellowship by Mason and the Stanford University's SILICON Practitioners Award!
Email: magarwa at gmu dot edu
Twitter: @milind_ag
GitHub: @magarw