Sushil Awale
Research Associate, Visual Analytics Research Group, TIB.
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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| May 30, 2025 | Our paper Exploring Patents Visually: An Interactive Search System for Multimodal Patent Image Search and Interpretation (Awale et. al., PatentSemTech@SIGIR 2025) accepted in PatentSemTech Workshop at SIGIR 2025. |
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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. |