CV

Academic CV.

Contact Information

Name Shivam Sharma
Professional Title Research Assistant
Email sharma.shivam2705@gmail.com
Website https://ssharma2705.github.io/

Professional Summary

Researcher in natural language processing, multimodal verification, misinformation detection, and scientific large language models.

Education

  • 2019 - 2021

    New Jersey, USA

    MSc
    New Jersey Institute of Technology
    Data Science
  • 2015 - 2019

    Rajasthan, India

    BTech
    The LNM Institute of Information Technology
    Computer and Communication Engineering

Research Experience

Publications

  • 2026
    GroundInc: Grounding Inconsistencies for Video Caption Verification
    Under Review, EMNLP 2026
  • 2024
    Exploring the benefits of domain-pretraining of generative large language models for chemistry
    arXiv
  • 2024
    Benchmarking LLMs for Environmental Review and Permitting
    arXiv
  • 2024
    RAG vs. Long Context: Examining Frontier Large Language Models for Environmental Review Document Comprehension
    arXiv
  • 2022
    Foundation models of scientific knowledge for chemistry: Opportunities, challenges and lessons learned
    BigScience Workshop
  • 2022
    Expert: Public benchmarks for dynamic heterogeneous academic graphs
    arXiv
  • 2022
    Evaluating and explaining natural language generation with genx
    DaSH, EMNLP
  • 2021
    An Evaluation of Twitter Datasets from Non-Pandemic Crises Applied to Regional COVID-19 Contexts
    ISCRAM
  • 2020
    Improving Classification of Crisis-Related Social Media Content via Text Augmentation and Image Analysis
    TREC-IS
  • 2018
    Combining neural, statistical and external features for fake news stance identification
    MSM, The Web Conference (WWW)

Conference and Journal Reviewing

  • Program Committee, ER 2024
  • Review Committee, PERTRA Socio-NLP 2024
  • Review Committee, IEEE TAI 2023
  • Review Committee, Humanities & Social Sciences Communications Journal 2023
  • Review Committee, EMNLP 2023

Invited Talks

  • Lowercarbon AI Hackathon for Clean Energy, 2024

Programming Skills

Languages: Python, SQL, R
Libraries: Hugging Face Transformers, Hugging Face Accelerate, Hugging Face Datasets, PyTorch
Software: Git, Docker