Dr. Manoj Chinnakotla - Applied Scientist in Search, Relevance, NLP

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(Whatever I do) with my Body, Speech, Mind or Sense Organs. (Whatever I do) using my Intellect, Feelings of Heart or (unconsciously) through the natural tendencies of my Mind, Whatever I do, I do all for others (i.e. without the sense of attachment to the results), (And) I Surrender them all at the Lotus Feet of Sri Narayana.

Manoj Chinnakotla

Researcher in Information Retrieval (IR), Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning (ML)

Latest News

Our research related to "Ruuh: A Deep Learning Based Conversational Social Agent" gets accepted as a demo in the prestigious NIPS 2018 Conference.
Our research on "Retrieve and Re-rank: A Simple and Effective IR Approach to Simple Question Answering over Knowledge Graphs" gets accepts in EMNLP 2018.
Read my recent blog post on "Code Mixed Question Answering" here.

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करोमि यद्यत्सकलं परस्मै ।

नारायणयेति समर्पयामि ॥

I am an Applied Researcher with deep expertise in the areas of Web Search, Relevance, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Machine Learning (ML), and Deep Learning (DL). I love applying state-of-the-art research for building and shipping real-world commercial products and experiences used by millions of users across the world.

I am a Principal Applied Scientist in the Artificial Intelligence and Research (AI & R) group of Microsoft, Bellevue, USA.

I also have a joint affiliation as an Adjunct Faculty at IIIT Hyderabad, India where I offer graudate-level research courses and also advise students on their thesis.