Neeraj Gangwar

I am a second year Ph.D. student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I am a part of the MLP Group and am advised by Prof. Nickvash Kani.

Prior to joining grad school, I spent seven years in the software industry. I was part of the engineering teams at Myntra and Commonfloor. I also worked with two friends on a couple of startup ideas - Shoplane (a hyperlocal shopping app for fashion) and AIANash (AI-driven analytics to understand user intent).

I completed my bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee in 2014. I worked with Prof. Debashis Ghosh and Prof. MV Kartikeyan. I was also a member of SDSLabs.

news

Dec 2022	Placed first in the generation track of NL4Opt at NeurIPS 2022 (Poster / Presentation / Certificate).
Aug 2021	Started grad school at UIUC.
Aug 2021	Last day in Myntra. Amazing 4.5 years!
Jun 2021	Our project to scale inventory reads to 1000x was published on the Myntra Engineering Blog.

selected publications

Preprint

Semantic Representations of Mathematical Expressions in a Continuous Vector Space

Gangwar, Neeraj, and Kani, Nickvash

arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.08142 2022

arXiv Bib

@article{gangwar2022semantic,
  abbr = {Preprint},
  bibtex_show = {true},
  title = {Semantic Representations of Mathematical Expressions in a Continuous Vector Space},
  author = {Gangwar, Neeraj and Kani, Nickvash},
  year = {2022},
  eprint = {2211.08142},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  primaryclass = {cs.CL},
  selected = true,
  arxiv = {2211.08142},
  journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.08142}
}

Preprint

Highlighting Named Entities in Input for Auto-Formulation of Optimization Problems

Gangwar, Neeraj, and Kani, Nickvash

arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.13201 2022

arXiv Bib

@article{gangwar2022highlighting,
  abbr = {Preprint},
  bibtex_show = {true},
  title = {Highlighting Named Entities in Input for Auto-Formulation of Optimization Problems},
  author = {Gangwar, Neeraj and Kani, Nickvash},
  journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.13201},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  primaryclass = {cs.CL},
  selected = true,
  arxiv = {2212.13201},
  eprint = {2212.13201},
  year = {2022}
}