Gaurav Sahu
Pushing the frontiers of AI to accelerate science.

Mila - Quebec AI Institute
Montreal
QC, Canada
I am a postdoctoral fellow at Mila - Quebec AI Institute where I am priviledged to work with Prof. Chris Pal, and Prof. Laurent Charlin. Prior to that, I was a Ph.D. student at the NLP Lab of the University of Waterloo, advised by Prof. Olga Vechtomova working on developing mechanisms to extract the most out of LLMs for any NLP task, objective or subjective.
I earned a thesis-based M.Math. degree in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo. Prior to that, I got my B.Tech. degree in Manufacturing Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT Kharagpur), where I worked with Prof. Pawan Goyal on Program Synthesis for Natural Language.
Apart from research, I am much enthused by language and art. I love to sometimes engross myself with sketching and painting. Check out my art collection if you’d like! I have also been learning to play the piano, as well as to speak Japanese and French.
news
Jun 28, 2025 | We won the best paper award for our work on computational creativity at ICCC 2025! |
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Apr 01, 2025 | LitLLM gets accepted to TMLR 2025! |
Jan 22, 2025 | InsightBench gets accepted to ICLR 2025! |
Jan 11, 2025 | Starting my postdoc at Mila with Prof. Chris Pal and Prof. Laurent Charlin. |
Dec 06, 2024 | Successfully defended my Ph.D Defence! |
selected publications
- Promptmix: A class boundary augmentation method for large language model distillationarXiv preprint arXiv:2310.14192, 2023
- Insightbench: Evaluating business analytics agents through multi-step insight generationarXiv preprint arXiv:2407.06423, 2024
- LitLLMs, LLMs for Literature Review: Are we there yet?arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.15249, 2024
- Computational Modeling of Artistic Inspiration: A Framework for Predicting Aesthetic Preferences in Lyrical Lines Using Linguistic and Stylistic FeaturesarXiv preprint arXiv:2410.02881, 2024