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General Information

Full Name Rishu Kumar
Languages English, Hindi, Bengali, German

Education

  • 2025
    Master's
    Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany
    • Field: Language Science and Technology
    • Thesis: Does multilingual training improve the performance for low-resource language summarization?
    • Software Project: BART meets Shakespeare: Automatic Summarization with Deep Learning Methods
  • 2018
    Bachelor's
    Bhagalpur College of Engineering, Bhagalpur, India
    • Field: Computer Science Engineering
    • Major Project: e-Dustbin: A fully automated dustbin using Arduino to optimize route for waste pickup vehicles
    • Minor Project: Finding weakest node in a network for attack and maximum damage using graph theory

Academic Interests

  • Fundamentals of LLMs
    • Language Learning vs Knowledge
    • Multilingual CoT and Data contamination
    • Knowledge base integration for training
  • Natural Language Generation
    • Multilingual Models (MoE vs Single Model)
    • Rethinking n-gram based evaluation metrics with modern LLMs
    • Better multilingual eval suites

Hobbies

  • Running
  • Biking/Motorcycling
  • DIY Electronics
  • Linux Automation
  • FACTORIO