Kanishka Misra
Assistant Professor at The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolKanishka Misra is an Assistant Professor and NLP researcher with a decade of experience advancing natural language understanding across academia and industry. He has held roles from graduate research and teaching at Purdue to postdoctoral and research faculty positions at UT Austin and TTIC, complemented by internships at Google and AI startups. His work blends deep research—evidenced by a PhD in Natural Language Understanding—with practical engineering, including NLP product and data science internships earlier in his career. Based in Chicago but continually collaborating across Austin and beyond, he moves fluidly between foundational research and applied system-building. Notably, his trajectory shows rapid academic progression (Bilsland Fellow to faculty) and a pattern of short, high-impact engagements that accelerate project outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
CBSE - Science Stream, CBSE - Science Stream at Mayoor School, Noida, IndiaDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Natural Language Understanding, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Natural Language Understanding at Purdue University
Hindi, Gujarati, Odia, English
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Github Skills (135)
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gemma10
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audio10
transformer10
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
kanishkamisra/minicons
Jun 2020 - Jan 2023
Utility for behavioral and representational analyses of Language Models
Contributions:2 reviews, 95 commits, 58 PRs in 2 years 8 months
language-modelnlpnatural-language-processingtransformers
kanishkamisra/wugs-and-daxes
Jun 2022 - Sep 2022
Collection of academic works in natural language processing, computational linguistics, and computational cognitive science that study the problem of novel words in models/agents.
Contributions:17 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
computational-linguisticsnatural-language-processing
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