Jivnesh Sandhan

Postdoc Researcher

Graduate School of Informatics

Kyoto University, Japan.


sandhan.jivnesh.6z@kyoto-u.ac.jp
(office)
Office address : Building 9: S212
Research interest :
  • Large Langauge Models
  • Multimodal LLMs
  • 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 :

  • Postdoc Researcher, Kyoto University, Japan (2024~till)
  • Visiting Assistant Professor, IIT Dharwad, India (2023~2024)

Brief Bio :

Dr. Jivnesh Sandhan is a postdoc researcher in the Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University. Prior to this, he was 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 Large Language Models. Currently, he is intereted in exploring 'How Human-likely are LLMs?' 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 :

  • December 2nd, 2024: I joined as a postdoc at Kyoto University.
  • 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).