talks

Jun, 2023. Microsoft Research, NYC. Towards General-Purpose Language-Enabled Agents: Machines that can Read, Think and Act

Apr, 2023. Johns Hopkins University. Towards General-Purpose Language-Enabled Agents: Machines that can Read, Think and Act

Feb, 2023. Carper AI Language-guided machine learning

Dec, 2022. NILLI workshop, EMNLP. Towards autonomous interaction with the world wide web

Dec, 2022. IGLU workshop, NeurIPS. Towards autonomous interaction with the world wide web

Dec, 2022. InterNLP workshop, NeurIPS. Semantic Supervision for few-shot generalization and personalization

Oct, 2022. UMass ML Friends seminar. Language-guided Machine Learning

Oct, 2022. Microsoft Research Summit. Language-guided Machine Learning

Sep, 2022. US Frontiers of Engineering symposium. Interaction and Language Grounding

Mar, 2022. Columbia NLP seminar. Language-guided Machine Learning

Dec, 2021. WPI Colloquium. How can NLP help Reinforcement Learning?

Nov, 2021. Cornell AI seminar. How can NLP help Reinforcement Learning?

Aug, 2021. Spatial Language Understanding and RoboNLP Workshop, ACL. Language-guided policy learning for better generalization and safety

Jun, 2021. Samsung Research. Embodied Language Understanding for Better Decision Making

Jan, 2021. IJCAI Knowledge Based RL workshop. How can NLP help Reinforcement Learning?

Dec, 2020. Microsoft Research, NYC. How can NLP help Reinforcement Learning?

Dec, 2020. WordPlay workshop, NeurIPS. Bringing Back Text Understanding into Text-based Games

Jul, 2020. LaRel workshop, ICML. Using Natural Language to Scale Up Reinforcement Learning [video]

Oct, 2019. Amazon, Cambridge. Addressing long-term dependencies for language generation

Oct, 2019. Penn State University. Addressing long-term dependencies for language generation

Aug, 2019. Google, New York. Addressing long-term dependencies for language generation

May 2019. SpiRL workshop, ICLR. Task-agnostic priors for reinforcement learning [video] [slides]

Dec, 2018. WordPlay workshop, NeurIPS. Harnessing the synergy between natural language and interactive learning

April, 2018. Facebook, Menlo Park. Language grounding for cross-domain policy transfer and spatial reasoning

October, 2017. University of California, Berkeley. Language grounding for cross-domain policy transfer and spatial reasoning

October, 2017. Stanford University, Stanford. Language grounding for cross-domain policy transfer and spatial reasoning

July, 2017. Boston ML Meetup, Cambridge. Grounding Natural Language with Autonomous Interaction

May, 2017. Allen Institute for AI, Seattle. Grounding Natural Language with Autonomous Interaction

April, 2017. Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta. Grounding Natural Language with Autonomous Interaction

April, 2017. OpenAI, San Francisco. Grounding Natural Language with Autonomous Interaction

March, 2017. Microsoft Research, Redmond. Grounding Natural Language with Autonomous Interaction

March, 2017. Princeton University, Princeton. Grounding Natural Language with Autonomous Interaction

March, 2017. Google, New York. Grounding Natural Language with Autonomous Interaction

Oct, 2016. Harvard NLP, Cambridge. Improving Information Extraction by Acquiring External Evidence with Reinforcement Learning

Sep, 2016. Allen Institute for AI, Seattle. Navigating natural language using reinforcement learning

July, 2016. Google, New York. Improving Information Extraction by Acquiring External Evidence with Reinforcement Learning

Dec, 2015. BBN Raytheon, Cambridge. An Unsupervised Method for Uncovering Morphological Chains

Oct, 2015. University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Language Understanding for Text-based Games Using Deep Reinforcement Learning

Sep, 2015. CCNLab, Harvard University. Language Understanding for Text-based Games Using Deep Reinforcement Learning

Dec, 2014. Babelon Annual Meeting. An Unsupervised Method for Uncovering Morphological Chains

Jun, 2013. IIT Madras. Morphological Segmentation for Keyword Spotting