Jivnesh Sandhan

Visiting Assistant Professor

Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Dharwad


jivneshsandhan@gmail.com
1304 (office)
Office address : A1:403
Research interest :
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Multimodal LLMs
  • Sanskrit Computational Linguistics

Education :

  • Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, IIT Kanpur, India, 2023
  • M.S., Mathematics and Scientific Computing, IIT Kanpur, India, 2018
  • B.Tech., Mathematics and Scientific Computing, IIT Kanpur, India, 2017

Experience :

  • Visiting Assistant Professor, IIT Dharwad, India (2023~2024)

Brief Bio :

Dr. Jivnesh Sandhan is a visiting assistant professor at IIT Dharwad in the Department of Computer Science. He completed his Ph.D. in the Department of Electrical Engineering from IIT Kanpur in 2023, where he also earned a dual degree in the Department of Mathematics and Scientific Computing in 2018. He received the prestigious Prime Minister's Research Fellowship (PMRF). His research expertise is Natural Language Processing (NLP). His Ph.D. thesis is titled “Linguistically-Informed Neural Architectures for Lexical, Syntactic and Semantic Tasks in Sanskrit. His scholarly endeavors have resulted in several publications in high-ranking conference venues, including CORE-ranking A*/A conferences.

News :

  • September 20th, 2024: Our paper got accepted in EMNLP24 main track.
  • October 31th, 2023: I joined as a visiting assistant professor at IIT Dharwad.
  • August 16th, 2023: I defended my Ph.D. thesis.
  • October 8th, 2023: Our paper, DepNECTI got accepted in EMNLP'23 (Findings).
  • May 8th, 2023: Our paper, SanskritShala got accepted in ACL'23 (System Demonstrations).