Rocktim Jyoti Das

I am a Research Associate II at MBZUAI in Abu Dhabi working on reasoning and planning under the supervison of Prof. Ivan Laptev and Prof. Preslav Nakov. I am interested in developing agents that reason, plan and interact with the environment to solve complex tasks using the world knowledge acquired using internet scale data.

I completed my undergraduate studies at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, which set the foundation for my academic journey. Subsequently, I had the incredible opportunity to spend a year at the DAIR Lab, IIT Delhi as a Project Scientist under the supervision of Prof. Mausam. As a researcher at DAIR lab, I focused on Task-Oriented Dialog Systems and Conversation based Medical Diagnosis.

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News

• 11/2024 Attending EMNLP, 2024 in Miami, Florida.
• 10/2024: The LLaMA-3-Nanda-10B-Chat model is released, establishing itself as the leading open-sourced bilingual Hindi-English model.
• 09/2024 3 papers accepted in EMNLP, 2024.
• 09/2024 Joined Embodied Perception Group at MBZUAI under the supervision of Prof. Ivan Laptev.
• 08/2024 Attending ACL, 2024 in Thailand.
• 05/2024 Our paper EXAMS-V is accepted in ACL main, 2024.
03/2024 Preprint of EXAMS-V: A Multi-Discipline Multilingual Multimodal Exam Benchmark for Evaluating Vision Language Models released.
12/2023 Attending EMNLP, 2023 in Singapore.
06/2023 Joined Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence as a Research Associate under the supervision of Prof. Preslav Nakov.
05/2023 Our paper Exploring distributional shifts in large language models for code analysis accepted in EMNLP, 2023.
05/2023 Our paper DKAF: KB Arbitration for Learning Task-Oriented Dialog Systems with Dialog-KB Inconsistencies accepted in ACL Findings, 2023.
11/2022 Awarded Rajiv Bambawale Cash Prize Award for best undergraduate thesis.
11/2022 Graduated from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi with a Bachelors in Electrical Engineering and minor in Computer Science.
10/2022 Started remote internship at Intelligence and Knowledge Discovery Research Lab, USC under the supervision of Prof. Xiang Ren.
06/2022 Joined Data Analytics and Intelligence Research (DAIR) Group, IIT Delhi as a Project Scientist under the supervision of Prof. Mausam.

Selected Research

* denotes joint first authors

Open-Sourced Project

Nanda is the leading open-sourced Hindi bilingual model for generation and reasoning, surpassing current models on safety benchmarks. Although our model is optimized for Devanagari Hindi, it also seamlessly supports Romanized and code-mixed Hindi, making it highly versatile for real-world applications. Check out the paper for more details about training, evaluation!

📄 Paper link

Give our model a try!

Download LLaMA-3-Nanda-10B weights from Hugging Face and see its capabilities in action:

💾 Model weights

Source code from Jon Barron's website.