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