About

Tushar Abhishek is an Applied Scientist at Microsoft with a passion for text generation in low resource languages, multi-lingual text generation from the Knowledge Base, and detecting & improving text coherence in long documents. Tushar is a final year MS by research student at IIIT-Hyderabad, where he is advised by Dr Vasudeva Varma and Dr Manish Gupta. He has published papers at conference venues like WWW, PAKDD, ICON, etc. and is particularly excited about the emerging role of Knowledge Bases in text generation and how they can help explore new research avenues. Before joining academia, Tushar gained industry experience, which allows him to transcend research work to real-world applications. He is currently working as a Software Development Engineer at Plivo and has previously worked as a Software Engineer at Ribbon Communications and as an Intern at Syon Research Labs. At Syon Research Labs, he worked on the ASL Daily Fantasy Sports Guide Android and iOS App using Adobe Flex, which is an optimal line-up suggestion App for Football Sports. He was also in the development team of Deepockets, a financial project (Android, iOS and Web App) which gives advice to its users on how to utilize their money efficiently. Tushar has a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science Engineering from BIT and a High School degree from Loyola High School. He is expected to complete his MS by research degree in Computer Science from IIIT Hyderabad in 2021. Tushar possesses a diverse set of technical skills, including Research Scientist, Software Engineer, Pytorch, NLP, Javascript, Flask, ML, AWS, ReactJS, Golang, Java, MongoDB, iOS, Scikit, Docker, MySQL, and Web. With relevant experience of 5.78 years, Tushar is a highly motivated and skilled individual who is always eager to learn and apply his knowledge to solve real-world problems.