• Shailaja Sampat

    Curious child inside, motivated programmer outside.

    Hello!

     

    I am a Senior Researcher at Fujitsu Research. I recently completed a Ph.D. in Computer Science at Arizona State University, USA. I have previously obtained a Bachelor's degree in Information & Communication Technology (ICT) from Ahmedabad University, India.


    My non-technical interests include Entrepreneurship, Product Design, and Poetry. In my leisure time, I love to travel (adventures of course!), cook, and do fine-art activities.

  • Education

    An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

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    Ph.D. in Computer Science (CS)

    August 2023

    School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence
    Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering

    Arizona State University

    Tempe, Arizona, USA

     

    Ph.D. advisors: Dr. Chitta Baral (CogInt Lab), Dr. Yezhou Yang (ASU APG)

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    B.Tech. in Information & Communication Technology (ICT)

    May 2017

    School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS)
    Ahmedabad University
    Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

  • Internships/Experience

    The best way to predict your future is to create it.

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    Senior Researcher

    August 2023-Present

    Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

    Fujitsu Research of America

    Sunnyvale, California, USA

     

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    Research Intern (Artificial Intelligence)

    May 2022-August 2022

    Foundations of AI - Reasoning group

    IBM T. J. Watson Research Center

    Yorktown Heights, New York, USA

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    Instructor/Graduate Teaching Associate

    January 2018-December 2021

    School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering

    Arizona State University

    Tempe, Arizona, USA

     

    Courses:

    CSE576: Natural Language Processing

    CSE355: Introduction to Theoretical Computer Science

    CSE110: Principles of Programming using Java
    Undergraduate Capstone Projects

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    Research Intern in Clinical Informatics

    May 2019-July 2019

    Clinical Informatics Solutions and Services (CISS)

    Philips Research North America

    Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

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    Machine Vision Systems Intern

    May 2018-July 2018

    Mechanical and Mechatronics Systems Research Laboratories (MMSL)

    Industrial Technology Research Institute

    Hsinchu, Taiwan

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    Machine Learning and Software Development Intern

    January 2017-June 2017

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    Research Intern in Data Visualization/Information Design

    May 2016-July 2016

    Information Design Lab

    Industrial Design Centre (IDC)

    Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

    Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

    Relevant Links: https://info-design-lab.github.io/TN2016/

  • Research Publications

    Well, that worked!

    Shailaja Keyur Sampat, Pratyay Banerjee, Yezhou Yang and Chitta Baral

    Findings of Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2022

    Long Paper accepted in Findings of EMNLP'22 [Abu Dhabi, 7th–11th December 2022] 

     

    It will also be featured at 3rd Workshop on Graphs and more Complex structures for Learning and Reasoning (GCLR) at AAAI'23

    Keywords: Action Representation Learning, Visual Question Answering, Hypothetical Visual Reasoning

    Shailaja Keyur Sampat, Maitreya Patel, Subhasish Das, Yezhou Yang, and Chitta Baral

    Arxiv Preprint, 2022

    Keywords: Reasoning about Actions and Change (RAC), Vision and Language

    Yizhong Wang, Swaroop Mishra, Pegah Alipoormolabashi, Yeganeh Kordi et. al.

    Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2022

    Long Paper accepted in EMNLP'22 [Abu Dhabi, 7th–11th December 2022] 

    Keywords: GPT-3, Prompt Engineering, Natural Instructions

    Shailaja Keyur Sampat, Akshay Kumar, Yezhou Yang and Chitta Baral
    Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) 2021

    Long Paper accepted in Main conference NAACL-HLT'21 [Virtual Conference, 1st-6th June 2021]

     

    It will also be featured at 2nd Workshop on Advances in Language and Vision Research (ALVR) at NAACL'21

    Keywords: Visual Question Answering, Hypothetical Visual Reasoning

    Man Luo, Shailaja Keyur Sampat, Chitta Baral et al.
    16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL), 2021

    Short Paper accepted in Main conference EACL'21 [Virtual Conference, 21st–23rd April 2021]

    Keywords: Visual Question Answering, Evaluation of VQA task

    Shailaja Sampat, Yezhou Yang, Chitta Baral
    Findings of Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2020

    Long Paper accepted in Findings of EMNLP'20 [Virtual Conference, 16th–20th November 2020] 

    Keywords: Question Answering, Vision and Language, Joint Image-Text Reasoning

    Tejas Gokhale, Shailaja Sampat, Zhiyuan Fang, Yezhou Yang, and Chitta Baral

    Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2019- Workshop Vision Meets Cognition 
    Poster Presentation for CVPR'19 Workshop in Long Beach, California, USA [June 16, 2019]

    Additional Info Link

    Shailaja Sampat and Joohyung Lee.

    16th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR), 2018.

    Main track Oral Presentation and Doctoral Consortium participant for KR'18 in Tempe, Arizona, USA [November 2, 2018]

    Keywords: Visual Reasoning, Answer Set Programming, Commonsense Reasoning

    Kuhu Gupta, Shailaja Sampat, Manas Sharma, and Venkatesh Rajamanickam
    eJournal of eDemocracy and Open Government (JeDEM), 2016.

    Journal Paper in Special Issue "Open and Visual Access to Information" of JeDEM'16 [December 19, 2016] 
    [Vol 8, No 2 (2016), p59-86 (ISSN:2075-9517)]

    Keywords: Data Journalism, Data Visualization, Visual Discovery, Data Analytics, Infographics, Open Data, Data Democracy, Data Literacy

  • Extended Abstracts

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    IJCAI'19

    Doctoral Consortium

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    ICCV'21

    Doctoral Consortium

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    NeurIPS'21

    WiML Workshop

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  • Skills

    Things I've picked up over the years...

    Programming & DBMS

    Python

    C/C++

    Java

    Spring (Maven/Gradle)

    Shell/Bash

    MySQL/NoSQL

    GraphDB/Knowledge Base

    AI & ML

    Pytorch

    Answer Set Programming

    TensorFlow

    OpenCV

    Scikit-learn

    NLTK

    Blender

    Computation & Analytics

    ElasticSearch

    R Programming

    MATLAB

    Apache Kafka

    Apache Spark

    Hadoop

    Languages

    Full Work Proficiency:

    English, Hindi

    Bilingual Proficiency:

    Gujarati
    Elementary Proficiency:

    Japanese, French

    Other

    Git

    Jupyter Notebooks

    Docker

    Tableau

    D3.js

    Streamlit

  • Extracurricular

    There is no secret ingredient... It's just you.

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    Co-hosted a semester long seminar series

    2021

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    Summer Volunteer- India Student Hub

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    Guest Speaker at MankiBaat webinar series

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    Mentor & Judge at BridgeHacks

    48-hour online Hackathon for Beginners
    2020

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    Mentor at FoodTech Hackathon

    Organized by FoodTechies, Finland
    2020

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    Former Co-president

    Affinity Group at ASU
    2019

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    Microsoft India AI Challenge 2018

    Part of the top 20 among participating teams
    2018

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    MIT Entrepreneurship Bootcamp (Video)

    Certificate in Disciplined Entrepreneurship
    2016

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    Courses in Japanese (にほんご)

    Certificate (Beginners)
    Certificate (Advanced)
    2014-2015

  • Professional Services

    Conference Volunteering

    [2018] KR

    [2020] ICLR, ACL, ICML, WiML, NeurIPS

    [2021] EACL, NAACL, ACL, NeurIPS

    [2022] ACL, CVPR

     

    My duties involved tech support (helpdesk, Zoom, Gather.town etc.), review of workshop livestreams, stress-testing conference website and sponsor webpage design.

    Peer-reviewing

    [2020] AAAI

    [2021] EMNLP, AAAI

    [2022] ARR, EMNLP

    [2022] O-DRUM workshop at CVPR

    [2023] ARR, EACL, CVPR, ACL, ICCV, AAAI

    [2023] VLAR and SG2RL workshops at ICCV

  • Curriculum Vitae / Resume

    Desire- that’s the only secret of every successful man’s career.

  • Creativity never dies..

    It's always there.. We just forget to spend time with it.

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    26 Jan 2018

    About my 5-day examination experience as a military service candidate at Mysore Airforce Station.

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    04 August 2017

    About a rollercoaster ride of thoughts while going away from home (half=a-globe!) for the first time! 

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    26 March 2016

    About an amazing week in Seoul, South Korea to attend MIT Global Entrepreneurship Bootcamp!

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    2017-2020

    All my art works, favourite quotes and cookings at one place!

  • Let's grab a cup!

    Tea, Why not? Because Coffee ain't my cup of tea!

    BYENG 569BA (Brickyard Engineering)
    699 S. Mill Ave.
    Tempe, Arizona 85281
    United States
    +1-901-279-3904
    +1-901-279-3904
    shailaja.sampat96@gmail.com
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