Abhilash Neog

Hi Welcome to my personal space !

A little about me. I am a Computer Science Master’s student at Virginia Tech and I am currently working as a Graduate Research Assistant at the Knowledge-guided Machine Learning Lab under the guidance of my advisor Prof. Anuj Karpatne. Previously, I had completed by Bachelor’s from BITS Pilani, India in Computer Science and later worked as a Data scientist at Oracle for a year and a half before finally joining VT.

Since my undergrad, I have had a major interest in Machine Learning, and I have been fortunate enough to have explored diverse areas ranging from computer vision to natural language processing and have applied ML to variety of domains ranging from ecology to the financial sector. Presently, my research interests include Knowledge-guided Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing and Time-series modeling. Overall, I am interested in AI for Science, especially in the domains of cognitive science and climate science.

My current work is broadly in Time-series modeling and Foundation models. Primarily, the target domain of my research is in Lake Ecology where I am tackling some of the fundamental challenges in lake ecosystems such as data scarcity, disparate data types (modeled and observed) and missing values owing to different frequencies of ecological features.

Apart from academia, I love spending time outdoors, especially cycling in the beautiful trails of Blacksburg and going for hikes. Moreover, I am passionate about soccer and table tennis, and recently have started learning the violin too !