Hello! My name is Nandan Thakur (नंदन ठाकुर / নন্দন ঠাকুর) [CV].

I am a (second) third-year PhD student in Computer Science at the University of Waterloo in Canada, advised by Prof. Jimmy Lin. During my PhD, I’ve done some fun internships at Google Research (Fall & Winter 2023). Before, I was a research assistant at the UKP Lab (TU Darmstadt) in Germany, supervised by Prof. Iryna Gurevych and Nils Reimers (2019 - 2021).

I received my undergraduate degree at Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani (BITS Pilani) in 2018. I also have industrial experience, working as a Data Scientist in KNOLSKAPE (2018 - 2019) and undergraduate internships at EMBL Heidelberg (Summer 2018) and Belong.co (Fall & Winter 2017).

I maintain a list of my publications under the Research tab. Feel free to reach out to me via email: nandan.thakur@uwaterloo.ca.

I am actively looking for research internships in Summer 2024!

Recent News

• _{[Nov 2023] TREC RAG 2024 has been accepted and will be conducted as a shared task in TREC 2024.}
• _{[Nov 2023] My internship work at Google is out on Arxiv, dataset is released here.}
• _{[Jul 2023] I will be attending the SIGIR 2023 virtual conference being held in Taipei, Taiwan! Say hi to me (virtally)!}
• _{[Jul 2023] I will be attending the ACL 2023 in-person conference being held in Toronto, Canada! Say hi to me!}
• _{[Jun 2023] The Domain Adaptation Paper has been accepted in ReNeuIR 2023 Workshop to be held jointly with SIGIR 2023!}
• _{[Jun 2023] The SPRINT Toolkit Paper has been accepted in SIGIR 2023 Resource Track!}
• _{[May 2023] The MIRACL Paper has been accepted in TACL 2023!}
• _{[May 2023] The Evaluating Embedding API Paper has been accepted in ACL 2023 Industry Track!}
• _{[Sep 2022] The MIRACL Challenge was accepted in WSDM Cup 2023. The Challenge is now live and looking for participants.}
• _{[Aug 2022] I started my Fall Internship at the Language Team in Google Research with Daniel Cer and Jianmo Ni.}