Sukannya Purkayastha

Sukannya Purkayastha suː.ˈkɑːn.ˈjə · pʊrˈkɑː.jəs.tʰɑː

(she/her)

Professional Summary

Hi! I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at the CAIDAS Natural Language Processing Chair, University of Würzburg with Prof. Goran Glavaš. Prior to that, I was pursuing PhD at Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab, TU Darmstadt, Germany supervised by Prof. Iryna Gurevych and Prof. Anne Lauscher. I also worked as a Research Intern at NEC Labs, Europe with Dr. Shahbaz Syed and Dr. Carolin Lawrence. Previously, I earned my MS(Research) in Natural Language Processing from the Department of Computer Science, IIT Kharagpur under the supervision of Prof. Sudeshna Sarkar and Prof. Pawan Goyal. I had a brief stint at TCS Research (Kolkata) working as a Researcher.

If you are interested in collaborating, feel free to reach out!

In my free time, I love cooking and learning random new facts (not a quizzer but love quizzes!).

Research Interests
01

Scholarly Communication & Peer Review

Understanding and improving the quality of scientific discourse — from detecting lazy reviewing patterns to modeling meta-reviewing as deliberative dialogue.

LazyReview · Reviewing the Reviewer · Decision-Making with Deliberation · Jiu-Jitsu Argumentation

02

Multilingual & Cross-lingual NLP

Making language technology work across the world's languages — including low-resource settings, romanization-based adaptation, and culturally diverse benchmarks.

Romanization-based LM Adaptation · CVQA

03

Multimodal NLP

Integrating vision and language for tasks like culturally aware machine translation and visual question answering across diverse linguistic and cultural contexts.

CaMMT · CVQA

04

Parameter-Efficient Learning

Developing modular, adapter-based approaches that reduce the cost of fine-tuning large pre-trained models without sacrificing performance.

Adapters Library · Romanization-based LM Adaptation

05

Knowledge Graphs & Biomedical NLP

Entity linking, drug–drug interaction prediction, and graph-based representations for structured knowledge in the medical domain.

Medical Entity Linking · Drug–Drug Interactions

News
Aug 2026Our paper "Reviewing the Reviewer" accepted at EMNLP 2026! 🚀
May 2026Started as Research Associate at University of Würzburg, Germany! 🚀
Feb 2026Our paper "Common Sense vs Morality" accepted at LREC 2026! 🚀
Jan 2026Our paper "Decision Making with Deliberation" accepted at EACL 2026! 🚀
Dec 2025Presented "Lazy Review" and "Decision Making with Deliberation" at the SciProd-LLM Workshop (AACL IJCNLP 2025) 🎤
Nov 2025Saugata presented our paper on Riemannian Gradient Averaging at the ELLIS Pre-NeurIPS workshop 🎤
Oct 2025Our paper on Riemannian Gradient Averaging accepted at OPT workshop (NeurIPS 2025) 🎉
Oct 2025Started internship at NEC Labs, Europe 💼
Jul 2025Attended ACL 2025 in Vienna 🇦🇹
Jul 2025Our benchmark paper "CaMMT" accepted at Findings of EMNLP 2025 🎉
May 2025Our paper "LazyReview" accepted at ACL 2025 🎉
Service
OrganizerSystem of Systems Conference, 2023 (TU Darmstadt)
VolunteerACL 2023 (virtual) · WiML workshop @ NeurIPS 2020 · ISCLS 2019 (IIT Kharagpur) · ACM GHCI 2019
ReviewerARR (NAACL, EMNLP, ACL, EACL, AACL) · IEEE TALLIP · IEEE Access · WiNLP @ EMNLP · EACL SRW · AAAI 2027
PC MemberACL 2026 Industry Track