Akshita Bhagia

Senior Research Engineer at AI2.

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I am a Senior Research Engineer on the AllenNLP team, involved in R&D for natural language processing (NLP). Most recently, I have been working on the OLMo project, where I have contributed to

I have also worked on open-source libraries such as allennlp, ai2-tango, etc.

I graduated with a Master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2020, where I worked with Prof. Mohit Iyyer at the intersection of NLP and digital humanities.

Previously, I have worked at Cerebellum Capital (Summer 2019), and at InFoCusp (2015-2018), where I worked on building a data science platform.


news

Aug 15, 2024 Panelist on the Open Source AI panel at the AI/ALL Summit: Future of Equitable and Inclusive AI co-located with ACL 2024.
May 9, 2024 Our work on the OLMo project won in the “Innovation of the Year” category at the Geekwire Awards!
Mar 26, 2024 I presented our work on the OLMo project at a Databricks webinar.
Mar 4, 2024 I was interviewed by Sam Charrington on the TWiML podcast about the OLMo project.
Feb 1, 2024 We released the OLMo suite of models, along with the training code, the evaluation code, and the technical report.
Feb 1, 2024 We released the DOLMa dataset and toolkit along with the technical report.