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PhD student at King's College London -
 researching Natural Language Processing
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Mubashara Akhtar

About me

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mubashara.akhtar@kcl.ac.uk

I am a PhD student at King's College London where I am part of the Distributed Artificial Intelligence research group and supervised by Prof. Elena Simperl and Dr. Oana Cocarascu. 

 

Currently I am interning at Google Deepmind in Zurich where I am working with Julian Eisenschlos and Jonas Pfeiffer. Prior to that I was doing a research visit with Andreas Vlachos at the Cambridge NLP Group. 

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My research is on multimodal approaches for automated fact checking, focusing on the modalities text, tables, and images. My research is funded by a King's College London NMES faculty award.

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Previously, I was a teaching & research assistant at TU Wien, as well as a Java software engineer (Vienna, Austria) and data scientist (Darmstadt, Germany) in industry. During this time I was working on machine learning projects for the biggest telecom provider in Europe. 

I obtained my undergraduate and master's degree in Computer Science from the Technical University of Vienna (TU Wien).

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Find my CV here. 

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Honours & Awards

  • King’s College London NMES PhD research competition award for the category "Research Impact" (across the Faculty of Natural, Mathematical and Engineering sciences)

  • King’s College London NMES Faculty Studentship for 2020-2024 

  • European Forum Alpbach scholarship for the years 2020/21 

  • Selected for US Embassy Austria's Austria to Austin program, 2019

  • Ban Ki-moon Center mentoring partnership (mentored by Vice Rector of   TU Wien, Anna Steiger), 2019

  • Research scholarship from TU Wien for my master's thesis project, 2017

  • Summer school and conference grant from TU Wien for ACM RecSys, 2017

  • Merit-based scholarship from TU Wien, 2012-2016

  • Top 1% with 1.0 overall score at Austrian high school final exam (summa cum laude)

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