Shramay Palta
Ph.D. Student in Computer Science | NLP Researcher

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8125 Paint Branch Dr, College Park, MD 20742
spalta[at]umd[dot]edu
I am a fourth year Ph.D. Student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park where I am advised by Professor Rachel Rudinger.
I am a member of the Computational Linguistics and Information Processing (CLIP) Lab in UMIACS.
My research interests broadly lie in the areas of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing with a focus on Commonsense Reasoning, Explainability and Interpretability, and Bias and Fairness in NLP. Specifically, I try to explore and understand:
- Is commonsense reasoning prone to uncertainty?
- How do humans and language models behave under this uncertainty?
- Are there cases where models deviate from human values and notions about the real world?
I got my Master of Science in Computer Science from UMD in 2023. Before coming to Maryland, I graduated from Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani in 2021 with a Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering.
For Summer 2025, I will be a research intern in the Office AI group at Microsoft Research, where I will be working with Michael Bentley and Mengting Wan.
News
Feb 26, 2025 | I will be joining Microsoft Research as a Research Intern over the Summer working with Michael Bentley, Mengting Wan and the Office AI Team! |
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Feb 26, 2025 | New preprint on LLM (mis)alignment from my internship at Microsoft Research! View it here: Speaking the Right Language: The Impact of Expertise Alignment in User-AI Interactions. |
Sep 20, 2024 | One paper accepted to the Findings of EMNLP 2024. View it here: Plausibly Problematic Questions in Multiple-Choice Benchmarks for Commonsense Reasoning! |
Jul 03, 2024 | One paper accepted to ECCV 2024. View it here: Investigating Style Similarity in Diffusion Models! |
May 28, 2024 | Started my internship at Microsoft Research. |