CV
Education
- Ph.D in Computer Science, Purdue University, October 2024
- M.S. in Computer Science, Purdue University, 2020
- B.S. in Computer Science, Purdue University, 2018
Work experience
- May 2024 - Present
- Meta Super Intelligence Labs (MSL)
- Core Llama multimodal (text + image) post-training
- Summer 2022
- Microsoft Research Intern
- Focus: Interactive Grounded Language Learning
- Supervisor: Julia Kiseleva
- Summer 2021
- Amazon Applied Science Intern
- Focus: Interactive Product-Image Retrieval
- Supervisor: Emre Barut
- Summer 2020
- Amazon Applied Science Intern
- Focus: Named Entity Recognition
- Supervisor: Michael Kayser
- Summer 2019
- Fujitsu Laboratories of America Machine Learning Research Intern
- Focus: Dialogue + Joke Selection
- Supervisor: Ramya Malur Srinivasan
Selected Publications
The Llama 3 Herd of Models Contributor
Using RL to Identify Divisive Perspectives Improves LLMs Abilities to Identify Communities on Social Media EMNLP 2024 Findings: Nikhil Mehta and Dan Goldwasser
An Interactive Framework for Profiling News Media Sources NAACL 2024 Nikhil Mehta and Dan Goldwasser
Interactively Learning Social Media Representations Improves News Source Factuality Detection Findings of AACL 2023: Nikhil Mehta and Dan Goldwasser
Tackling Fake News Detection by Continually Improving Social Context Representations ACL 2022: Nikhil Mehta, Maria Pacheco, and Dan Goldwasser
Improving Natural Language Interaction with Robots Using Advice NAACL 2019: Nikhil Mehta and Dan Goldwasser
Improving Grounded Language Understanding by Interacting with Agents Through Help Feedback Findings of EACL 2024: Nikhil Mehta, Milagro Teruel, Patricio Sanz, Xin Deng, Ahmed Awadallah, Julia Kiseleva
Skills
- Natural Language Processing
- Deep Learning
- Computer Vision
- Multimodal Understanding
- Python
Teaching
- Graduate Level
- Natural Language Processing
- Statistical Machine Learning
- Undergraduate
- Data Mining and Machine Learning
- Systems Programming
Service and leadership
- Reviewing: ACL ARR, ACL, AACL, AAAI, NAACL, EMNLP, COLING, EACL