Jay Gala

I am an MSc student in Computer Science at Mila and McGill University, supervised by Siva Reddy and Dzmitry Bahdanau. My research interests span data-efficient learning, training dynamics, reasoning, and generalization.

Previously, I was a Research Associate at MBZUAI working on multimodal learning with Yova Kementchedjhieva and Alham Fikri Aji, and collaborated with Zeerak Talat on hate speech detection using federated learning. Before that, I was an AI Resident at AI4Bharat (IIT Madras) where I built open-source datasets and models for Indian languages with Mitesh Khapra, Anoop Kunchukuttan, and Raj Dabre. I also interned at UC San Diego with Pengtao Xie on neural architecture search and generative models.

I hold a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Mumbai, India. Outside research, I served as a mentor at DJ Unicode, where I also led a team that built a platform for conducting C programming examinations for over 500 students (demo). I co-founded Unicode Research with Swapneel Mehta, served as a TA for the Unicode ML Summer Course 2021 supported by Google Research India, and was a founding research engineer at SimPPL, where I collaborated with The Sunday Times and Ippen Digital to build a tool for auditing online disinformation.

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