Aishwarya Agrawal is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Operations Research at University of Montreal. She also spends one day a week at DeepMind (Montreal office) as a Research Scientist.
From Aug 2019 – Dec 2020, she was a full time Research Scientist at DeepMind (London office). She completed her PhD in Aug 2019 from Georgia Tech, advised by Dhruv Batra and closely collaborating with Devi Parikh .
Her research interests lie at the intersection of Computer Vision, Deep Learning and Natural Language Processing, with a focus on developing Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems that that can ‘see’ (ie understand the contents of an image: who, what, where, doing what?) and ‘talk’ (ie communicate the understanding to humans in free-form natural language).