Hello! I'm Milind Agarwal and I'm a final-year PhD candidate in George Mason University's Computer Science program . 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 full-time Research/Data Scientist roles starting anytime over Summer 2025 (May-July start dates)!
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
- Nov 2024: I passed my dissertation proposal defense! I'm officially a PhD candidate!
- Nov 2024: Two papers on NLP for endangered languages accepted to Comput-EL'25! See you in Hawaii!
- Apr 2024: "A Concise Survey of OCR on Low-Resource Languages" accepted to AmericasNLP'2024. See you in Mexico City!
- Apr 2024: Presented "Script-Agnostic Language Identification" at SouthNLP 2024@Emory and MASC-SLL 2024@JHU ( Best Paper Award )
Email: magarwa at gmu dot edu
Twitter: @milind_ag
GitHub: @magarw