My name is Kalpesh Krishna, and I am a fourth fifth year PhD student in Computer Science at UMass Amherst advised by Prof. Mohit Iyyer in the UMass NLP lab. My research is supported by the Google PhD Fellowship.
I received my undergraduate degree at IIT Bombay. In the past, I’ve done some fun internships at AI2 (Summer 2022), Google Research (Summer 2019 - Spring 2022), Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago (Summer 2017) and Mozilla (Summer 2016).
I maintain a list of my publications under the Research tab. I also blog every now and then compiling my personal experiences.
CV / Resume, Google Scholar, Semantic Scholar
Email ID: kalpesh@cs.umass.edu
I am actively looking for full-time research positions in industry. If you think I may be a good fit, feel free to reach out to me!
Updates
| Mar 2023: | new preprint on paraphrase attacks on AI-generated text detection and defending against these attacks. |
| Jan 2023: | two papers to appear at EACL 2023, on better human evaluation of long-form summarization (LongEval), and guidelines for coreference annotation (ezCoref). |
| Oct 2022: | three papers to appear at EMNLP 2022, on improving text generation (RankGen), a benchmark to evaluate Chinese language models (SLING), and a dataset for document-level literary translations (Par3). |
| Sept 2022: | talk at the University of Washington on RankGen (slides). |
| June 2022: | started my summer internship at Allen AI where I will be working with Kyle Lo, Arman Cohan and Pradeep Dasigi. |
| Apr 2022: | new preprint: RankGen: Improving Text Generation with Large Ranking Models. The code and model checkpoints have been added here. |
| Feb 2022: | two papers to appear in ACL 2022, on few-shot multilingual style transfer and a new retrieval benchmark on literary text. |
| Oct 2021: | started a part-time student researcher position at Google AI Language, where I will be working with John Wieting. |
| Sept 2021: | received the Google PhD Fellowship for 2021! (list of recipients) |
| June 2021: | started my summer internship at Google Research India where I will be working with Partha Talukdar and Bidisha Samanta |
| May 2021 - July 2021: | talks at Google Research (slides), University of Texas at Austin (slides), University of Southern California (slides, video) on text generation and perils of its evaluation. |
| Mar 2021: | new paper on longform question answering on ELI5 to appear in NAACL 2021! Read more in our Google AI blogpost. |
| Dec 2020: | passed my PhD candidacy with distinction! |
| Sep 2020: | I am excited to share a new bird photography webpage! Check the Birding tab. |
| Sep 2020: | new paper on paraphrasing for unsupervised style transfer to appear at EMNLP 2020. Check out a live demo and the codebase here. |
| May 2020: | started my summer internship at Google Brain, where I will be working with Aurko Roy |
| Apr 2020: | talk at IBM research on model extraction attacks on BERT (slides) |
| Apr 2020: | new blogpost with Nicolas Papernot on our ICLR 2020 paper on model extraction attacks on BERT. |
| Jan 2020: | I am co-organizing the Machine Learning and Friends Lunch at UMass Amherst with Neha Nayak Kennard. If you have speaker recommendations, fill them here! |
| Dec 2019: | new paper on model extraction attacks on BERT-based models to appear at ICLR 2020. |
| Oct 2019: | new blog surveying twelve recent NLP PhD applicants on the graduate school admission process! Also an Insight IITB article on my personal experience. |
| Aug 2019: | lightning talk at the AllenNLP Summit 2019 on using AllenNLP for education. Check out the AllenNLP homework I designed for our grad NLP class here! |
| Jul 2019: | presented papers on QA generation and faster transformer decoding at ACL 2019. Check out our web demo on hierarchical QA generation! |
| Jul 2019: | awarded the ACL 2019 Student Scholarship and the Victor Lesser Graduate Scholarship |
| Jun 2019: | Purva Tendulkar won the Best Presentation Award for our paper in ICCC 2019! |
| May 2019: | started summer internship at Google AI Language in New York |
| Apr 2019: | talk at the UMass Data Science Research Symposium 2019 |
| Apr 2019: | new paper on thematic doodle generation to appear in ICCC 2019 |
| Nov 2018: | presented paper on logic rules for sentiment classification at EMNLP 2018 (slides) |
| Sep 2018: | started my PhD in Computer Science at UMass Amherst |
| Aug 2018: | graduated from IIT Bombay, receiving the Sharad Maloo Memorial Gold Medal |
| Jul 2018: | new preprint on hierarchical multitask learning for speech recognition |
| Jun 2018: | new blogs on grad resources, IIT Bombay CS opportunities and crowdsourcing |
| Apr 2018: | presented paper on CNNs for end-to-end speech recognition at ICASSP 2018 (poster) |