As a Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon AGI, I specialize in the cutting-edge fields of Large Language Models and Alignment. I earned my Ph.D. in 2021 from the National University of Singapore, under the esteemed guidance of Dr. Roger Zimmermann, and had the privilege of mentorship from academic and industry luminaries, such as Dr. Soujanya Poria, Dr. Rada Mihalcea, Dr. Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Dr. Yang Liu, and others.
In the academic community, I have taken on leadership roles as an Area Chair for premier NLP conferences, including ACL 2023/2024, EMNLP 2023, and AAAI 2023/2024. My contributions have been recognized through multiple accolades, such as an Outstanding Reviewer Award at ACL '21, an Outstanding Paper Award from IEEE CIM, and the Research Achievement Award from NUS in 2019.
By actively merging the realms of academic research and practical application, I am committed to pushing the boundaries of what's possible in GenAI.
News
Senior Area Chair at ACL 2025.
Area Chair at ACL 2024.
2 Papers accepted at EMNLP 2023 -- Instruction Induction (main) and ICL for Dialogs (findings)
Papers at EACL 2023, Sigdial 2023 -- Dialog Augmentation, Subjective Dialogs
Area Chair at EMNLP 2023, ACL 2023, AAAI 2024, SICON 2023, AAAI 2023
Publicity Chair at ACL 2023
Papers at EMNLP 2022, ACL 2022, NAACL 2022 -- Inducer Tuning, Adapters, Style Transfer
Defended PhD Thesis and joined Amazon Alexa AI as Applied Scientist
Affiliations
CESAR: Automatic Induction of Compositional Instructions for Multi-turn Dialogs
Taha Aksu, Devamanyu Hazarika, Shikib Mehri, Seokhwan Kim, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Yang Liu, Mahdi Namazifar, EMNLP 2023 (Main)
Using In-Context Learning to Improve Dialogue Safety
Nicholas Meade, Spandana Gella, Devamanyu Hazarika, Prakhar Gupta, Di Jin, Siva Reddy, Yang Liu, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, EMNLP 2023 (Findings)
"What do others think?": Task-Oriented Conversational Modeling with Subjective Knowledge
Chao Zhao, Spandana Gella, Seokhwan Kim, Di Jin, Devamanyu Hazarika, Alexandros Papangelis, Behnam Hedayatnia, Mahdi Namazifar, Yang Liu, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Sigdial 2023
Inducer-tuning: Connecting Prefix-tuning and Adapter-tuning (Oral)
Yifan Chen*, Devamanyu Hazarika*, Mahdi Namazifar, Yang Liu, Di Jin, Dilek Hakkani-Tür , EMNLP 2022 (Main) *Equal Contribution
Empowering Parameter-Efficient Transfer Learning by Recognizing the Kernel
Structure in Attention
Yifan Chen*, Devamanyu Hazarika*, Mahdi Namazifar, Yang Liu, Di Jin, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, NAACL 2022 *Equal Contribution
Analyzing Modality Robustness in Multimodal Sentiment Analysis
Devamanyu Hazarika*, Y Li*, B Cheng, S Zhao, Roger Zimmermann, Soujanya Poria, NAACL 2022 *Equal Contribution
Domain Divergences: a Survey and Empirical Analysis
Abhinav Kashyap, Devamanyu Hazarika, Min-Yen Kan, and Roger Zimmermann, NAACL 2021
Methods for Numeracy-Preserving Word Embeddings
D Sundararaman, S Si, V Subramanian, G Wang, D Hazarika, L Carin, EMNLP 2020
Misa: Modality-Invariant and -Specific Representations for Multimodal Sentiment Analysis
D Hazarika, R Zimmermann, S Poria, ACM MM 2020
Recognizing Emotion Cause in Conversations
S Poria, N Majumder, D Hazarika, D Ghosal, R Bhardwaj, S Y B Jian, P Hong, R Ghosh, A Roy, N Chhaya, A Gelbukh, R Mihalcea, Cognitive Computation '21
Beneath the Tip of the Iceberg: Current Challenges and New Directions in Sentiment Analysis Research
S Poria, D Hazarika, N Majumder, R Mihalcea, IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing '20
Multimodal Research in Vision and Language: A Review of Current and Emerging Trends
S Uppal, S Bhagat, D Hazarika, N Majumder, S Poria, R Zimmermann, A Zadeh, Information Fusion '22
Conversational Transfer Learning for Emotion Recognition
D Hazarika, S Poria, R Zimmermann, R Mihalcea, Information Fusion '21
Analyzing the Domain Robustness of Pretrained Language Models, Layer by Layer
AR Kashyap, L Mehnaz, B Malik, A Waheed, D Hazarika, M-Y Kan, and R Shah, Adapt-NLP, EACL 2021
Causal Augmentation for Causal Sentence Classification
FA Tan, D Hazarika, S K Ng, S Poria, R Zimmermann, CL+NLP 2021