Sushil Awale

Research Associate, Visual Analytics Research Group, TIB.

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I am a Research Associate in the Visual Analytics Research Group at TIB, Hannover and a PhD candidate at Leibniz Universität Hannover. I’m supervised by Prof. Dr. Ralph Ewerth. My research interests are in Multimodal Information Retrieval, Question Answering and Knowledge Graphs.

Previously, I worked as a Student Assistant in the Language Technology Group, Universität Hamburg building an intelligent scholarly system powered by Natural Language Processing (NLP).

I completed my Masters in Machine Learning from Universität Hamburg, Germany in 2023 and my Bachelors in Computer Science in 2020 from Tribhuwan University, Nepal.

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Dec 16, 2024 Our paper Patent Figure Classification using Large Vision-language Models (Awale et. al., ECIR 2025) accepted as full paper at ECIR 2025.
Apr 15, 2023 Started working as Research Associate in the Visual Analytics Research Group at TIB, Hannover, Germany.
Mar 13, 2023 Our paper DBLP-QuAD: A Question Answering Dataset over the DBLP Scholarly Knowledge Graph (Banerjee et. al., BIR 2023) accepted in BIR Workshop at ECIR 2023.
Dec 15, 2022 Our paper ARDIAS: AI-Enhanced Research Management, Discovery, and Advisory System (Banerjee et. al., SDU@AAAI 2023) accepted in SDU Workshop at AAAI 2023.

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