Scholar
Nihal V. Nayak
Google Scholar ID: Bx497RMAAAAJ
Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University
Citations & Impact
Citations
5,120
H-index
7
i10-index
7
Publications
18
Co-authors
0
Publications
Resume
Academic Achievements
- 1. Paper 'Learning to Generate Instruction Tuning Datasets for Zero-Shot Task Adaptation' accepted to Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024.
- 2. Paper 'Does CLIP Bind Concepts? Probing Compositionality in Large Image Models' accepted to Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2024.
- 3. Paper 'Learning to Compose Soft Prompts for Compositional Zero-Shot Learning' presented at ICLR 2023.
- 4. Paper 'Zero-Shot Learning with Common Sense Knowledge Graphs' published in Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR) 2022.
- 5. Work on 'pre-training foundation models in Academia' accepted to COLM 2025.
- 6. Research on 'predicting unobserved drug interactions using graph paths with large language models' accepted to KDD 2025.
Research Experience
- 1. Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University (SEAS) (June 2025 - present), working with David Alvarez-Melis.
- 2. During Ph.D., studied zero-shot generalization, synthetic datasets (Bonito), composition (CSP, CLIP Binding), and structured knowledge (ZSL-KG).
Education
- Ph.D. in Computer Science from Brown University, advised by Stephen Bach.
Background
- Research Interests: Efficiently adapting large machine learning models through data-centric solutions. Field: Computer Science. Brief: Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University (SEAS), working with David Alvarez-Melis.
Miscellany
- Invited talks at Ai2, Netflix, and Snowflake on Data-Centric Approaches to Adapting Foundation Models.