Abhishek Das

Menlo Park, United States

Abhishek is a Research Scientist at Facebook AI Research (FAIR). His research focuses on deep learning and its applications in climate change, and in building agents that can see (computer vision), think (reasoning/interpretability), talk (language modeling), and act (reinforcement learning)
He received his Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Georgia Tech. During his PhD, he also spent time working at Facebook AI Research, DeepMind and Tesla Autopilot, and his research was supported by fellowships from Facebook, Adobe, and Snap.

Abhishek's Publications

June 18, 2018

Research

Embodied Question Answering

Abhishek Das, Samyak Datta, Georgia Gkioxari, Stefan Lee, Devi Parikh, Dhruv Batra

June 18, 2018

August 01, 2018

Research

Neural Modular Control for Embodied Question Answering

Abhishek Das, Georgia Gkioxari, Stefan Lee, Devi Parikh, Dhruv Batra

August 01, 2018

June 18, 2019

Research

Computer Vision

Embodied Question Answering in Photorealistic Environments with Point Cloud Perception

Erik Wijmans, Samyak Datta, Oleksandr Maksymets, Abhishek Das, Georgia Gkioxari, Stefan Lee, Irfan Essa, Devi Parikh, Dhruv Batra

June 18, 2019

August 23, 2020

Computer Vision

NLP

Large-scale Pretraining for Visual Dialog: A Simple State-of-the-Art Baseline

Vishvak Murahari, Dhruv Batra, Devi Parikh, Abhishek Das

August 23, 2020

October 22, 2017

Research

NLP

Learning Cooperative Visual Dialog Agents with Deep Reinforcement Learning

Abhishek Das, Satwik Kottur, José M.F. Moura, Stefan Lee, Dhruv Batra

October 22, 2017

November 03, 2019

Research

Computer Vision

Improving Generative Visual Dialog by Answering Diverse Questions

Vishvak Murahari, Prithvijit Chattopadhyay, Dhruv Batra, Devi Parikh, Abhishek Das

November 03, 2019

October 24, 2017

Conversational AI

NLP

Evaluating Visual Conversational Agents via Cooperative Human-AI Games

Prithvijit Chattopadhyay, Deshraj Yadav, Viraj Prabhu, Arjun Chandrasekaran, Abhishek Das, Stefan Lee, Dhruv Batra, Devi Parikh

October 24, 2017

October 22, 2017

Research

Computer Vision

Grad-CAM: Visual Explanations from Deep Networks via Gradient-based Localization

Ramprasaath R. Selvaraju, Michael Cogswell, Abhishek Das, Ramakrishna Vedantam, Devi Parikh, Dhruv Batra

October 22, 2017

January 05, 2021

Research

ML Applications

IR-VIC: research Discovery of Sub-goals for Transfer in RL

Nirbhay Modhe, Prithvijit Chattopadhyay, Mohit Sharma, Abhishek Das, Devi Parikh, Dhruv Batra, Ramakrishna Vedantam

January 05, 2021