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<h2><a href="https://aiisc.ai/kiml2023/"> KDD 2023 Workshop on Knowledge-infused Learning</a></h2>
I am an assistant professor of <a href="https://www.csee.umbc.edu/">Computer Science</a> and an affiliate faculty member of <a href="https://ebiquity.umbc.edu/">Ebiquity Research Group</a> at <a href="https://umbc.edu/">University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC)</a>. In the past, I have hold the position of Senior AI Research Scientist with the Knowledge and Dialog team within <a href="https://research.samsung.com/artificial-intelligence">AI Center</a> at Samsung Research America. I was a visiting researcher at <a href="https://www.turing.ac.uk/">the Alan Turing Institute</a>. I have been awarded PhD in Computer Science from the <a href="http://aiisc.ai">Artificial Intelligence Institute</a> at <a href="https://sc.edu/">The University of South Carolina</a> in 2022, where I was advised by <a href="http://amit.aiisc.ai/">Dr. Amit Sheth</a>. My Ph.D. research was supported by University of Chicago's Data Science for Social Good Fellowship, AI For Social Good Fellowship from Dataminr Inc., EPSRC-UKRI grant through Alan Turing Institute, and NSF-EAGER on Knowledge-infused Learning. Prior to this, I completed bachelors and masters in Computer Science and Software Engineering from <a href="http://aiactr.ac.in/">Netaji Subhas University of Technology</a>(East Campus) and <a href="http://www.dtu.ac.in/">Delhi Technological University</a>, India, respectively.
<p> 🚨At UMBC CSEE, I will be starting a reading+research group: <a href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C21&q=%22Knowledge+infused+Learning%22&btnG=&oq=kn">Knowledge-infused AI and Inference</a>(<b style="font-family:verdana;"> KAI<sup>2</sup></b>). For preface, there are some useful <a href="https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%22knowledge-infused+Learning%22">Youtube Videos</a> on Knowledge-infused Learning. <b style="font-family:verdana;"> KAI<sup>2</sup></b> <i>Website Coming Soon</i>. Till then, please drop me an email if you would like to join.</p>
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<h2 style="font-family:verdana;"><b>Research Interests</b></h2>
I have broad interests in <a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=9357868">knowledge</a> graphs and machine learning (in particular deep learning) for application into natural language processing, recommender systems, and computational social data science. My research is mostly directed towards:
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<li><a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=8970629">Knowledge-infused Learning</a>: is a class of Neuro-Symbolic AI techniques that utilize a variety of knowledge (<a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3269206.3271732">lexical</a>, linguistic, <a href="https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0250448">domain specific</a>, <a href="https://www.aaai.org/AAAI22Papers/AAAI-10689.GaurM.pdf">commonsense</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2205.13884.pdf"> process knowledge</a> and constraint-based) in different forms and abstractions into <a href="http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2600/paper14.pdf">deep neural network</a>. It improves upon data-centric statistical learning to reduce training, reduce computing needs, and broaden coverage, resulting in improved performance, <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2204.12560.pdf">safety</a> and model interpretation, and providing <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpuhqjKNnDg&t=3352s">user-level explanations</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=9514440">Knowledge Intensive Language Understanding:</a> is a new unified benchmark to help AI researchers build models that are better able to <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.08145">leverage real-world knowledge</a> to accomplish a broad range of tasks. Models that are better able to leverage real-world knowledge do well in tasks o</li>
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I recently gave a tutorial on <a href="https://www.slideshare.net/aiisc/finalkgckirltutorial2022aiinstitutepptx">Knowledge-infused Reinforcement Learning</a> at <a href="https://www.knowledgegraph.tech/kgc-2022-tutorial-knowledge-infused-reinforcement-learning/">Knowledge Graph Conference</a>, which is one of core AI areas I am interested in. I am fascinated about interdisciplinary research as it provide practical means to make real world impact. I collaborate with domain experts in mental health, crisis informatics, conversational AI, virtual health assistant, and digital security. I also have been a co-organizer and a strong proponent of two communities: <a href="https://aiisc.ai/KiL2021/">Knowledge-infused Mining and Learning</a> and <a href="https://clpsych.org/">Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology</a>.
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<h2 style="font-family:verdana;"><b>Contact</b></h2>
<h3 style="font-family:verdana;"><b>Prospective Students:</b></h3> I am actively looking for skilled and self-motivated student to join my group! If you are interested in working with me, please apply through the <a href="https://www.csee.umbc.edu/graduate/computer-science-m-s-ph-d/">UMBC PhD program</a> and mention me in your application.
<h3 style="font-family:verdana;"><b>UMBC Students:</b></h3>
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<li>If you are already a graduate student at UMBC, feel free to reach out.</li>
<li>I am also accepting undergraduate students for senior thesis advising or independent work. I also recommend you take CMSC 678 (or at least one of Machine Learning or NLP or Knowledge Graph classes) before getting into knowledge-infused learning research.
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<h2 style="font-family:verdana;"><b>Quick Links</b></h2>
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<li><a href=https://drive.google.com/file/d/1N4dcrZsNBTMm7q92lnt8gYdP-SmFoDAx/view?usp=sharing><b>CV</b></a>
<li><a href=https://github.com/manasgaur/mysite/blob/master/Academic_Research_Statement.pdf><b>Academic Research Statement</b></a>
<li><a href=https://github.com/manasgaur/mysite/blob/master/Teaching_Statement_ManasGaur.pdf><b>Academic Teaching Statement</b></a></li>
<li><a href=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=VJ8ZdCEAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao><b>Google Scholar Profile</b></a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpuhqjKNnDg"><b>Ph.D. Dissertation Video</b></a></li>
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