Nandan Thakur (Preferred)
Nandan Thakur
Pronouns: he/him
PhD student, Computer Science, University of Waterloo
- Joined August 2021
Names
Emails
****@gmail.com (Confirmed)
, ****@uwaterloo.ca (Confirmed)
, ****@ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de (Confirmed)
, ****@uwaterloo.ca (Confirmed)
Personal Links
Career & Education History
PhD student
Computer Science, University of Waterloo (uwaterloo.ca)
2021 – Present
Intern
Mosaic ML, Databricks, Databricks (databricks.com)
2024 – 2024
Intern
Research & Development, Vectara (vectara.com)
2024 – 2024
Intern
Google Research, Google (google.com)
2022 – 2022
Researcher
Computer Science, TU Darmstadt (tu-darmstadt.de)
2019 – 2021
Undergrad student
Electronics and Instrumentation, BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and Science (pilani.bits-pilani.ac.in)
2014 – 2018
Advisors, Relations & Conflicts
Expertise
retrieval-augmented generation
2024 – 2026
information retrieval
2021 – 2026
neural search
2021 – 2026
dense retrieval
2021 – 2026
multilingual retrieval
2021 – 2026
zero-shot retrieval
2021 – 2026