Debaditya Pal

Debaditya Pal

Graduate Student majoring in Computer Science

Institute for Creative Technologies

University of Southern California

Biography

I am a graduate student at the University of Southern California majoring in Computer Science. Being a connoiseur of sci-fi movies, I always found Artificial Intelligence highly interesting. My research interests include Natural Language Processing, Dialog Systems and Information Retrieval.

Currently I am working on creating Multilingual Open-Domain Negotiation Agents. I am also a research assistant at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies, under the supervision of Dr. David R Traum, where I work on extracting context rich embeddings for dialog systems. In the summer of 2022, I worked with the same lab to design a new dialogue management architecture. Previously, I have tackled the NL2SQL semantic parsing task with a couple of my colleagues and also worked on OCR enabled Plagiarism Checkers. I have also worked with Dr. Debanjan Sadhya and Prof. Shashikala Tapaswi to design OCR based Plagiarism Detectors.

Interests
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Dialog Systems
  • Generative AI
  • Semantic Parsing
  • Text Classification
  • Information Retrieval
Education
  • MS in Computer Science, 2025

    University of Southern California

  • BTech in Computer Science and Engineering, 2023

    Indian Institute of Information Technology, Gwalior

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
University of Southern California
Visiting Research Intern
May 2022 – Jul 2022 Los Angeles, USA
Worked on Retrieval Based Question Answering. Compared Statistical models with Transformer based Encoders on a morderate size corpus. Established dominance of statistical models.
 
 
 
 
 
Google Summer of Code 2022 (Activeloop @PSF)
Student Software Developer
Jun 2021 – Aug 2021 Remote
Developed an Interactive Onboarding Environment for Activeloop with a REPL based Coding Tutorial Engine using Python. User code input checked dynamically at runtime using ASTs.
 
 
 
 
 
Co-Founder
CareYear Edutainment
Mar 2019 – Jan 2021 Kolkata, India
Deployed Adaptive Learning using Bayesian Knowledge Tracing and Exploratory Learning through an Interactive Animation Engine.

Accomplish­ments

ETS
GRE Score: 334/340
Google
Google Summer of Code
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Coursera
Deep Learning Specialization
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