Vasudeva Varma

Professor

Head of Language Technologies Research Centre (LTRC)
Head of Information Retrieval and Extraction Lab (iREL)
Former Dean (Research & Development), CEO of IIIT-H Foundation
International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIIT-H)

About Me

I am a Professor at the International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIIT-H), currently serving as the Head of Language Technologies Research Centre (LTRC) & the Head of Information Retrieval and Extraction Lab (iREL). My research interests are in the broad areas of Information Retrieval, Extraction & Access, more specifically ~ Social Media Analysis, Summarization, Semantic Search, Text Generation, and Cloud Computing. I have also been the CEO of the IIIT Hyderabad Foundation, which runs one of the largest technology incubators in India, and the Dean (Research & Development), IIIT-H.

News

2021

Winners, Constraint shared task for the categorization of hostile and adverse content at AAAI '21.

2020

Received Google India Research Award for works related to AI for Social Good.

2020

Work on Categorization of Sexism and Misogyny accepted at TWEB '21.

2020

Winners, LongSumm and LaySumm Scientific Document Summarization shared tasks at EMNLP '20.

2019

Work on Style Transfer accepted at AAAI '20.

2019

Serving as General Chair at CODS-COMAD 2020, India's largest AI conference.

2019

Project Angel featured in online media.

2019

Team Goldfish gets the top position at the Clickbait Challenge.

2018

Runners-up in the shared task for semantic discernment of happy moments posted online - @ AffConn, AAAI '19.

2018

Work on stereotypical bias removal using knowledge-based generalizations accepted in The Web Conference, 2019.

2017

Work on extractive summarization accepted at AAAI '18.