Nikita Bhutani
I am currently a PhD candidate in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan. I am advised by Prof. H. V. Jagadish in the Database Research Group. I am interested in teaching machines how to automatically answer questions asked in natural language in any domain.
Experience
During my graduate studies, I spent two summers at IBM Research in 2016 and 2017, working with Yunyao Li on scalable entity resolution and on-demand curation of text. I was a research intern at Megagon Labs in Summer 2018, working with Wang-Chiew Tan on enriching knowledge bases using conversational question-answer corpora. I received a B.Tech. degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, and worked as a software engineer for a couple of years before joining the PhD program.
Awards
IBM PhD Scholarship, 2017 UMich PhD Fellowship, 2014