Grounding natural language with autonomous interaction
Date and Time
Friday, March 10, 2017 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm
Location
Computer Science Small Auditorium (Room 105)
Type
CS Department Colloquium Series
Speaker
Host
Prof. Barbara Engelhardt
Karthik Narasimhan is a PhD candidate working with Prof. Regina Barzilay at CSAIL, MIT. His research interests are in natural language understanding and deep reinforcement learning. His current focus is on developing autonomous systems that can acquire language understanding through interaction with their environment while also utilizing textual knowledge to drive their decision making. His work has received a best paper award at EMNLP 2016 and an honorable mention for best paper at EMNLP 2015. Karthik received a B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Madras in 2012 and an S.M in Computer Science from MIT in 2014.