Medha Hira
I am Medha Hira, a final-year B.Tech student specializing in Computer Science Engineering at the Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi. I have been fortunate to be advised by Dr. Anubha Gupta and Dr. Rajiv Ratn Shah from IIIT-Delhi, as well as Dr. Sameep Mehta and Dr. Nishtha Madaan from IBM Research India!
Since early 2023, I’ve been immersed in the exciting domains of Large Language Models (LLMs), Natural Language Processing (NLP), and Speech Processing. Through my research, I aim to tackle challenges at the intersection of these fields, I am particularly interested in contributing to advancements in model safety, multilingual communication, and emotion understanding in speech.
In addition to my academic endeavors, I have had the opportunity to intern as a Software Engineer at Google, India and as a Data Scientist at SAP, U.A.E.
News
- September 2024: My team secured an all-India Rank 6 in the Amazon ML Challenge!
- August 2024: Marked the successful completion of my Google SWE Internship and the commencement of the last year of my undergrad.
- June 2024: Paper titled “Exploring Multilingual Unseen Speaker Emotion Recognition: Leveraging Co-Attention Cues in Multitask Learning” accepted at INTERSPEECH 2024.
- May 2024: Started my Software Engineering Internship at Google, Bangalore.
- May 2024: Concluded my undergraduate thesis with Dr. Anubha Gupta!
- February 2024: 2 papers on speech processing and prosody transfer accepted at the Tiny Track at ICLR 2024!
- November 2023: Work done during my GRM internship at IBM Research accepted at the AAAI’24 (Demo Track).
- August 2023: Commenced my undergraduate thesis with Dr. Anubha Gupta in the SBI Lab @ IIIT-D.
- August 2023: I was awarded the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) at IIIT-Delhi.
- January 2023: Became a member of the MIDAS Lab @ IIIT-D and began my research journey!
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