Hi, I’m Somin!

I am a masters student at the College of Information & Computer Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Presently, I am also a member of the HCI-VIS Lab supervised by Prof. Narges Mahyar.

My research interests lie broadly in understanding and communicating vast amounts of complex data encoded in text. Towards that end, I combine methods from natural language processing and information extraction to enable effective data analysis and communication. I am especially interested in data present in the vast biomedical literature and in the digital civics domain.

Somin Wadhwa

My favorite pastimes are eating & debating. I also like to read & travel quite a bit (whenever I get the chance). I am also a (mediocre) runner!

Query2Question

Improving relevance of search responses by converting queries to questions. Group project for my NLP class (COMPSCI 585) at UMass.

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BitterSweet

A web server for probing the bitter-sweet gradient and linked bitter receptors of small molecules.

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VQA-MD

Asking questions to images with deep learning; a VQA tutorial.

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CommunityClick: Capturing and Reporting Community Feedback from Town Halls to Improve Inclusivity M. Jasim, Pooya Khaloo, Somin Wadhwa, Amy X. Zhang, Ali Sarvghad, Narges Mahyar. ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), 2020.
Best Paper Award Semi-Automating Knowledge Base Construction for Cancer Genetics Somin Wadhwa, Kanhua Yin, M.D., Kevin S. Hughes, M.D., Byron C. Wallace. Automated Knowledge Base Construction (AKBC), 2020.

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