I am a 4th year PhD candidate in the Department of Computational and Data Sciences (CDS) at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore with a research focus on Machine Learning and related areas. I am supervised by Prof. Partha Pratim Talukdar, and have been affiliated with the Machine And Language Learning Lab (MALL Lab) since August 2018.
Prior to graduate school, I received my Bachelor of Engineering (BE Hons.) in Computer Science from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani (BITS Pilani) in 2015.
Research
I am broadly interested in machine learning, natural language processing and related fields. In my post-graduate work, I have had a specific focus on knowledge graphs (KG) and question answering. In this area, I have tried to improve QA performance by combining pre-trained language models with KG embeddings. I have also worked on making KG embeddings more scalable and easier to apply to downstream tasks. During my undergraduate studies I worked on humanoid robotics and computer vision.
Publications
Saxena A., Kochsiek A. & Gemulla R. “Sequence-to-Sequence Knowledge Graph Completion and Question Answering”. Accepted to the 2022 Annual Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2022).
Saxena A., Chakrabarti S. & Talukdar P. “Question Answering Over Temporal Knowledge Graphs”. Accepted to the 2021 Annual Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2021).
Saxena A., Tripathi A. & Talukdar P. “Improving Multi-hop Question Answering over Knowledge Graphs using Knowledge Base Embeddings”. Accepted to the 2020 Annual Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2020).
A. Gautam, A. U. Saxena, P. Mall and S. Mohan, “Positioning multiple mobile robots for geometric pattern formation: An empirical analysis,” 2014 Seventh International Conference on Contemporary Computing (IC3), Noida, India, 2014, pp. .
Work Experience
IBM Research, Bangalore
Research Intern — Summer 2019
Google, Hyderabad
Software Engineer, Tools and Infrastructure — May 2016 - Mar 2017
PayPal, Chennai
Software Engineer 1 — July 2015 - November 2015
CV
Contact
apoorvsaxena [at] iisc.ac.in
apoorvumang [at] gmail.com
Lab Address
303, Department of Computational and Data Sciences (CDS)