R106 is my personal research venture, where I help undergraduates, students from minority communities, or simply those looking for guidance, get started with NLP/CV/ML research. Every year I get about ~50 applications, from which I select 1-2 people through a thorough selection process. Here are some of R106 alumni: what they are currently doing, and the publications we were able to work on as a part of R106. 

"Quality > Quantity"

• 2023 (first cohort): Sriya Rallabandi: joined R106 as an undergrad

• 2022: Srijith Radhakrishnan, Nikhil C Mohan: Researchers @ Computational Media Lab, UT Austin

• 2021: Neeraja Kirtane [website]: currently Research Associate @ IITM, joined R106 as an undergrad 

  • • Published @ NAACL GeBNLP: Mitigating Gender Stereotypes in Hindi and Marathi Word Embeddings [link]

• 2020: Smriti Singh [website]: currently GRA, MS CS @ UT Austin, joined R106 as an undergrad

  • • Published @ ACL SRW: “Hold on honey, men at work”: A semi-supervised approach to detecting sexism in sitcoms [link]

• 2019: Krithika Ramesh [website]: currently Research Intern @ Microsoft Research, joined R106 as an undergrad

  • • Published @ ACL WiNLP: [link]

• 2023 (second cohort):  Currently, the mentors are people I know personally. More mentors will be selected from the next cohort onwards!

  • • Smriti Singh [website]

    • more coming soon..

• 2019-2023 (first cohort): No external mentors