DEBJIT PAUL

Since May 2018, I am a Doctoral Student under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Anette Frank at the Department of Computational Linguistics at Heidelberg University and also a part of Research Training Group AIPHES.

My research interest lies in the area of natural language processing (NLP) where I have worked on building NLP models that can utilize external commonsense knowledge to perform different natural language understanding (NLU) tasks. I am particularly interested in problems that require models to exhibit social and emotional intelligence. One theme which is common throughout my research is the need to explicitly reason about a social situation. My primary research interest areas are :

• Commonsense Reasoning
• Interpretability and Explanable Machine Learning
• Knowledge Based Reasoning

Prior to this, I have completed my Masters in Computer Science from Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany. I worked on handling noisy labels while training Neural Networks.