Position
Assistant Professor
Office
337 Information Technology and Engineering (ITE) Building
Contact Information
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
1000 Hilltop Circle
Baltimore, MD 21250
email: manas@umbc.edu
website: https://csee.umbc.edu/~manas
Education
Ph.D, Artificial Intelligence Institute at The University of South Carolina, 2022
Biography
I am an Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) Department of Computer Science. My research expertise uses knowledge graphs, artificial intelligence, and natural language processing methods for knowledge-intensive language understanding applications such as conversational AI, summarization, and recommender systems. Before UMBC, I was a senior research scientist in the AI Center in Samsung Research America (Mountain View) and a visiting researcher at Alan Turing Institute, UK. I did my Ph.D. at the Artificial Intelligence Institute at The University of South Carolina. I was fortunate to be advised by Dr. Amit P. Sheth. My work has been covered through media articles, podcast interviews, and tutorials. If you are interested in working with me, send me your CV and research interest at manas@umbc.edu. For more details on my research directions, please check https://csee.umbc.edu/~manas.
Publications