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Nitesh Kumar

Dr Nitesh Kumar

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Overview

Dr. Nitesh Kumar joined the School of Computer Science and Informatics in 2022. In his first two years, he worked as a research associate and was promoted to the lecturer position in 2024. His research in the area of Artificial Intelligence focuses on Probabilistic Logic Programming, Neurosymbolic Artificial Intelligence, Analogical Reasoning, and Large Language Models.

Publication

2024

2023

2022

2021

  • Kumar, N. and Kuželka, O. 2021. Context-specific likelihood weighting. Presented at: The 24th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, Virtual, 13 -15 April 2021Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS) 2021, Vol. 130. Proceedings of Machine Learning Research (PMLR) pp. 2125-2133.

2020

Articles

Conferences

  • Kumar, N., Chatterjee, U. and Schockaert, S. 2024. Ranking entities along conceptual space dimensions with LLMs: An analysis of fine-tuning strategies. Presented at: The 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Bangkok, Thailand, 11-16 August 2024 Presented at Ku, L., Martins, A. and Srikumar, V. eds.Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics ACL 2024. Association for Computational Linguistics pp. 7974-7989.
  • Kumar, N. and Schockaert, S. 2023. Solving hard analogy questions with relation embedding chains. Presented at: Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP, Singapore, 6-10 December 2023 Presented at Bouamor, H., Pino, J. and Bali, K. eds.Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. Association for Computational Linguistics pp. 6224–6236., (10.18653/v1/2023.emnlp-main.382)
  • Kumar, N. and Kuželka, O. 2021. Context-specific likelihood weighting. Presented at: The 24th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, Virtual, 13 -15 April 2021Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS) 2021, Vol. 130. Proceedings of Machine Learning Research (PMLR) pp. 2125-2133.

Teaching

CMT 651 Agile Software Development

Biography

He completed his Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science, KU Leuven, Belgium. He was associated with the Declarative Languages and Artificial Intelligence (DTAI) group and Leuven AI. His supervisors were Prof. Luc De Raedt and Prof. Ondřej Kuželka.

He did his undergraduate studies at the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Rourkela in Computer Science and Engineering. He finished his master's (M.S.R) in Electrical Engineering (Computer Technology) from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD). For a few years, he worked as a software engineer for Samsung R&D Institute India - Delhi (SRID).

Contact Details

Email KumarN8@cardiff.ac.uk

Campuses Abacws, Room 2.49, Senghennydd Road, Cathays, Cardiff, CF24 4AG

Research themes

Specialisms

  • Artificial intelligence
  • Natural language processing
  • Knowledge representation and reasoning

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