Medha Hira
Medha Hira

Medha Hira

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I am a Master’s student in Computer Science & Natural Language Processing at the Language Technologies Institute, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, advised by Dr. Maarten Sap.

I work on retrieval for code-switched and low-resource languages, and more broadly on model safety, multilingual communication, and agentic reasoning.

About

I’m interested in making language technology work for the way people actually speak — across languages, registers, and code-switched settings. My current research focuses on retrieval for code-switched and low-resource languages. More broadly I work on model safety, multilingual and multicultural communication, agentic reasoning, and emotion understanding in speech.

Before CMU I completed my B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering at IIIT-Delhi, where I was advised by Dr. Anubha Gupta and Dr. Rajiv Ratn Shah, and worked with Dr. Sameep Mehta and Dr. Nishtha Madaan at IBM Research India.

I’ve also spent time as a Software Engineer (ML) Intern at Google, a Research Intern at Microsoft Research India with Dr. Akshay Nambi, and a Data Science Intern at SAP in Dubai. Please reach out if you’d like to chat — I enjoy talking about research.

News
  • May 2026 Started my Software Engineering (ML) Internship at Google, San Jose, working on Gemini Enterprise.
  • 2026 Paper titled “MORPHOGEN: A Multilingual Benchmark for Evaluating Gender-Aware Morphological Generation” accepted at ACL 2026.
  • 2025 Paper titled “Enhancing Scientific Visual Question Answering via Vision-Caption aware Supervised Fine-Tuning” accepted at the LAVA Workshop, ACM Multimedia 2025.
  • August 2025 Began my MS in CS & NLP at the Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University.
  • June 2025 Graduated from IIIT-Delhi with a B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering.
  • January 2025 Started as a Research Intern at Microsoft Research India, working on Microsoft Copilot’s Agentic Deep Research and on safety in tool-using LLM agents.
  • September 2024 My team secured an all-India Rank 6 in the Amazon ML Challenge!
  • 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.
  • 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 AAAI’24 (Demo Track).
  • 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!

Selected Publications

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