Sonia Raychaudhuri
I am a 2nd-year PhD student in Computer Science at the GrUVi Lab in Simon Fraser University, advised by Angel Xuan Chang. I am broadly interested in grounding language in 3D environments. More specifically, I am working to build Embodied AI agents capable of following instructions in human language to navigate in 3D indoor environments.
Earlier I graduated with a B.E. degree in Engineering from IIEST Shibpur and thereafter worked with TCS and Ericsson as a Software Engineer, before deciding to pursue research in AI.
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Publications
Sonia Raychaudhuri, Saim Wani, Shivansh Patel, Unnat Jain, Angel X. Chang
EMNLP, 2021
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Xianghao Xu, David Charatan, Sonia Raychaudhuri, Hanxiao Jiang, Mae Heitmann, Vladimir Kim, Siddhartha Chaudhuri, Manolis Savva, Angel X. Chang, Daniel Ritchie
3DV, 2020
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Teaching Experience
- Graduate Teaching Assistant for Natural Language Processing in Fall 2021
- Graduate Teaching Assistant for Grounded Natural Language Understanding in Spring 2021
- Graduate Teaching Assistant for Natural Language Processing in Fall 2020
News
- Awarded Outstanding TA Award by the School of Computing Science for 2022
- Hosted MultiON challenge for Embodied AI Workshop at CVPR 2022
- Amii AI Week Talent Bursary Recipient, 2022 [webpage]
- Selected for CRA-WP Grad Cohort for Women, 2022 [webpage]
- Awarded SFU CS Graduate Fellowship in Spring 2022
- Awarded SFU Graduate Fellowship in Spring 2022
- Paper got accepted at EMNLP 2021
- Presenting at Amii Retreat Day, 2021
- Selected for CRA-WP Grad Cohort for Women, 2021 [webpage]
- Paper got accepted at 3DV 2020
- Awarded Helmut & Hugo Eppich Family Graduate Scholarship in Spring 2021
- Awarded SFU CS Graduate Fellowship in Spring 2021
- Awarded SFU Graduate Fellowship in Spring 2021
- Accepted SFU CS PhD offer (via program transfer), starting in Fall 2020! To be advised by Angel X. Chang
- Awarded SFU Graduate Fellowship in Fall 2019
- Accepted SFU CS MSc(thesis) offer, starting in Fall 2019! To be advised by Angel X. Chang Read More