Namrata Mukhija (New York University)

I'm a second-year M.S. in Computer Science student at [New York University, Courant School of Mathematical Sciences](https://www.courant.nyu.edu/). My primary research area is in Natural Language Processing, focused on devising ways for building/studying fair language models. At NeurIPS, I'm presenting my work centered at assessing the effect of paraphrasing as a data augmentation tool in improving downstream Named Entity Recognition in low versus high resource scenarios (done at [J.P. Morgan, Machine Learning Center of Excellence, New York](https://www.jpmorgan.com/technology/applied-ai-and-ml) as an Research AI & ML intern). At NYU, I work with Dr. He He and Dr. Chen Zhao on multi-modal reasoning. I previously interned at [Microsoft Research, India](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/lab/microsoft-research-india/) under [Dr. Kalika Bali](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/kalikab/) and [Dr. Monojit Choudhury](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/monojitc/) in developing a [framework](https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.07444) for prioritizing research for low-resource language communities, understanding different [dilemmas](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3530190.3534792) faced by technologists, their origin and complexity, and involving low-resource language communities in the development of language technologies. The work was published at [ACM COMPASS](https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3530190.3534792). I was previously a Software Engineer 2 at [Microsoft](https://www.microsoft.com/). I was involved in developing various products such as [PowerPoint](https://www.microsoft.com/en-in/microsoft-365/powerpoint), [Fluid Framework](https://fluidframework.com/), and [Unified Service Desk](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/unified-service-desk/admin/overview-unified-service-desk?view=dynamics-usd-4.1).