Akash Kumar Gautam

I am a research assistant at MIDAS Labs, IIIT-Delhi. Along with having experience in the software industry, I have been working under the guidance of Dr Rajiv Ratn Shah and Dr Debanjan Mahata. I have also collaborated with Dr Rakesh Gosangi and Dr Raghava Mutharaju on numerous projects. I completed my undergraduation from IIIT-Delhi (2015-2019) in Computer Science and Engineering. My research interests broadly consist of topics related to Natural Language Processing, Computational Social Science, Information Retrieval, and Knowledge Graphs. Please feel free to reach out for potential collaboration opportunities.

akash15011 [at] iiitd [dot] ac [dot] in

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Work Experience

July 2020 - Current
United Health Group
Associate Software Development Engineer II

November 2018 - Current
MIDAS Labs, IIIT-Delhi
Research Assistant

Aug 2019 - June 2020
Career Anna
Full Stack Web Developer

May 2018 - August 2018
Systems and Networks Labs, IIIT-Delhi
Summer Research Intern

August 2018 - December 2018
Teaching Assistant (Moonsoon Semester), IIIT-Delhi
Course: Mobile Computing

Selected Publications

Multitask Learning for Emotionally Analyzing Sexual Abuse Disclosures
Ramit Sawhney, Puneet Mathur, Taru Jain, Akash Kumar Gautam and Rajiv Ratn Shah
Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-HLT) 2021 [Acceptance Rate: 26%]
Paper (Coming Soon)

#MeTooMA: Multi-Aspect Annotations of Tweets Related to the MeToo Movement
Akash Gautam*, Puneet Mathur*, Rakesh Gosangi, Debanjan Mahata, Ramit Sawhney and Rajiv Ratn Shah. (* joint first authorship)
International AAAI Conference On Web And Social Media (ICWSM) 2020 [Acceptance Rate: 5%]
Dataset | Paper

An Iterative Approach for Identifying Complaint Based Tweets in Social Media Platforms
Gyanesh Anand*, Akash Gautam*, Puneet Mathur, Debanjan Mahata, Rajiv Ratn Shah and Ramit Sawhney. (* joint first authorship)
AAAI Student Abstract and Poster 2020 [Acceptance Rate: 48%]
Dataset | Paper | Poster

Multimodal Analysis of Disaster Tweets
Akash Kumar Gautam, Luv Misra, Ajit Kumar, Kush Misra, Shashwat Aggarwal and Rajiv Ratn Shah.
IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Big Data, 2019 [Acceptance Rate: 29.5%]
Paper

Semi-Supervised Iterative Approach for Domain-Specific Complaint Detection in Social Media
Akash Gautam, Debanjan Mahata, Rakesh Gosangi, Rajiv Ratn Shah.
The Third Workshop on e-Commerce and NLP, ACL 2020
Paper | Presentation

Awards

Registration scholarship, ICWSM 2020
Presented to young researchers from countries with minority representation in social computing research.

Travel Grant, AAAI 2020
Travel grant by AAAI, for presenting at The Thirty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2020, New York U.S.A.

Honourable Mention's Award (IEEE International Conference on Data Mining)

Proposed a novel solution by deploying a web application for Automatic Knowledge Graph Construction Contest as a part of shared task associated with IEEE, ICDM 2019.

Web Application | Code

Academic Excellence Award 2015
Awarded gold medal by higher secondary school for excellent performance in AISSCE, 2015

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