Hi! I am a senior math major at UT Austin. I am a member of the Deans Scholars Honors program, and am fortunate to have worked with Prof. Eunsol Choi, Prof. Greg Durrett, and Prof. Richard Tsai. I am a recipient of the 2024 CRA Undergraduate Research Award - Honorable Mention.
My research is in Natural Language Processing. Currently, I am developing methods to enable language models (LMs) to be lifelong learners. I am also interested in multilingual LMs, building AI systems with strong mathematical capabilities, and transfer learning.
I will be starting my PhD in Fall 2024 at Cornell University, advised by Professor Alexander Rush and supported by an NSF Fellowship.
Publications
- Propagating Knowledge Updates to LMs Through Distillation. NeurIPS, 2023
Shankar Padmanabhan, Yasumasa Onoe, Michael J.Q. Zhang, Greg Durrett, Eunsol Choi.
- Can LMs Learn New Entities from Descriptions? Challenges in Propagating Injected Knowledge. ACL, 2023. Yasumasa Onoe, Michael J.Q. Zhang, Shankar Padmanabhan, Greg Durrett, Eunsol Choi.
Preprints
- Optimal Placement of Public Electric Vehicle Charging Stations Using Deep Reinforcement Learning. arXiv, 2021. Shankar Padmanabhan*, Aidan Petratos*, Allen Ting*, Kristina Zhou, Dylan Hageman, Jesse Pisel, Michael Pyrcz.
Hobbies
In my free time, I enjoy learning about deep learning theory and neuroscience. I am also very passionate about learning languages. Through a small amount of "supervised training" (Duolingo) and a large amount of "unsupervised training" (native media), I have become a fluent speaker of Spanish, and I am learning French and Tamil as well. Finally, I enjoy playing ultimate frisbee and staying active.