Niyati B.
About Niyati B.
Niyati B. is a Research Engineer and PhD student at The Johns Hopkins University, focusing on machine translation and speech technologies for low-resource languages. She has a diverse background in computational linguistics and has held various research positions at institutions such as Inria, Ashoka University, and Charles University.
Current Role at Inria
Niyati B. serves as a Research Engineer at Inria in Paris, Île-de-France, France. She has held this position since 2022, contributing to various research projects over a span of two years. Her work primarily focuses on low-resource natural language processing (NLP) and multilinguality, which are critical areas in advancing machine translation and speech technologies.
PhD Studies at Johns Hopkins University
Since 2023, Niyati B. has been pursuing her PhD at Johns Hopkins University. Her research emphasizes machine translation and speech technologies for low-resource languages. She works under the mentorship of David Yarowsky, furthering her expertise in language technology and its applications.
Educational Background
Niyati B. completed her Bachelor's degree in English with a Computer Science minor at Ashoka University from 2017 to 2020. She then pursued a Master of Science in Language and Communication Technologies through the Erasmus Mundus Masters Program from 2020 to 2022, studying at both Charles University in Prague and Saarland University in Germany. She received a full scholarship for this program, which highlights her academic achievements.
Previous Research Experience
Niyati B. has gained extensive research experience through various internships and projects. She worked as a Research Intern at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, for five months in 2020. Additionally, she held multiple roles at Charles University in 2021, including Research Intern and Research Collaborator, focusing on constrained decoding and statistical machine translation. Her earlier projects at Ashoka University included advanced programming and machine learning courses.
Mentorship and Collaboration
During her tenure at Inria, Niyati B. was mentored by notable figures in the field, including Rachel Bawden and Benoît Sagot. Her collaborative efforts have extended to various institutions, enhancing her research capabilities and contributing to her development as a researcher in the field of language technologies.