Gaurav Sahu

I am a Ph.D. student at the NLP Lab of the University of Waterloo, advised by Prof. Olga Vechtomova. My research focuses on multimodal deep learning and generative text modelling, where I explore ways to extract visual and auditory cues to generate better text. I am also interested in learning the dynamics of the shared multimodal latent space.

I am also a Visiting Researcher at ServiceNow Research, collaborating with the Human-Machine Interaction Through Language (HMITL) and the Low Data Learning (LDL) groups.

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 been learning to play the piano and to speak Japanese and French.