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Overview

Lav R. Varshney is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the field of Computer Science, with a focus on several subfields including Artificial Intelligence, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Computer Networks and Communications, Management Science and Operations Research, and Cognitive Neuroscience.

The main topics of their work span a range of areas such as Topic Modeling, Natural Language Processing Techniques, Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning, COVID-19 epidemiological studies, Blockchain Technology Applications and Security, Machine Learning and Algorithms, and Error Correcting Code Techniques.

Recent publications by Varshney include the following:

  • "What governs attitudes toward artificial intelligence adoption and governance?", 2022, Science and Public Policy
  • "BERTology Meets Biology: Interpreting Attention in Protein Language Models", 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • "COVID-19 Growth Rate Decreases with Social Capital", 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • "Social capital dimensions are differentially associated with COVID-19 vaccinations, masks, and physical distancing", 2021, PLoS ONE
  • "The impact of COVID-19 lockdowns on mental health patient populations in the United States", 2024, Scientific Reports

Varshney collaborates frequently with several researchers, notably:

  • Ibtihal Ferwana
  • Haizi Yu
  • Sourya Basu
  • Anuj K. Nayak
  • Akhil Bhimaraju

Their work has been published in various academic venues, with multiple publications appearing in:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing

Best Publications

  • Transporting information and energy simultaneously

    L.R. Varshney

  • Structural Properties of the Caenorhabditis elegans Neuronal Network

    Lav R. Varshney;Beth L. Chen;Eric Paniagua;David H. Hall

  • CTRL: A Conditional Transformer Language Model for Controllable Generation

    Nitish Shirish Keskar;Bryan McCann;Lav R. Varshney;Caiming Xiong

  • BERTology Meets Biology: Interpreting Attention in Protein Language Models

    Jesse Vig;Ali Madani;Lav R. Varshney;Caiming Xiong

  • Performance of LDPC Codes Under Faulty Iterative Decoding

    L. R. Varshney

  • Customer Referral Incentives and Social Media

    Ilan Lobel;Evan Sadler;Lav R. Varshney

  • Optimal Information Storage in Noisy Synapses under Resource Constraints

    Lav R Varshney;Lav R Varshney;Per Jesper Sjöström;Dmitri B B. Chklovskii

  • Wireless Power Transfer for Future Networks: Signal Processing, Machine Learning, Computing, and Sensing

    Bruno Clerckx;Kaibin Huang;Lav Varshney;Sennur Ulukus

  • Reliable Crowdsourcing for Multi-Class Labeling Using Coding Theory

    Aditya Vempaty;Lav R. Varshney;Pramod K. Varshney

  • A framework for Bayesian optimality of psychophysical laws

    John Z. Sun;Grace I. Wang;Grace I. Wang;Vivek K Goyal;Lav R. Varshney;Lav R. Varshney

  • Distributed Scalar Quantization for Computing: High-Resolution Analysis and Extensions

    V. Misra;V. K. Goyal;L. R. Varshney

  • Noise-Enhanced Information Systems

    Hao Chen;Lav R. Varshney;Pramod K. Varshney

  • Privacy and Reliability in Crowdsourcing Service Delivery

    Lav R. Varshney

  • Cognition as a part of computational creativity

    Lav R. Varshney;Florian Pinel;Kush R. Varshney;Angela Schorgendorfer

  • Subblock-Constrained Codes for Real-Time Simultaneous Energy and Information Transfer

    Anshoo Tandon;Mehul Motani;Lav R. Varshney

  • Quantization of Prior Probabilities for Hypothesis Testing

    K.R. Varshney;L.R. Varshney

  • BERTology Meets Biology: Interpreting Attention in Protein Language Models

    Jesse Vig;Ali Madani;Lav R. Varshney;Caiming Xiong

  • Models of dataset size, question design, and cross-language speech perception for speech crowdsourcing applications

    Mark Allan Hasegawa-Johnson;Jennifer Cole;Preethi Jyothi;Lav R Varshney

  • On energy/information cross-layer architectures

    Lav R. Varshney

  • An Algorithmic Framework for Estimating Rumor Sources With Different Start Times

    Feng Ji;Wee Peng Tay

  • Distributed Storage Meets Secret Sharing on the Blockchain

    Ravi Kiran Raman;Lav R. Varshney

  • A big data approach to computational creativity: The curious case of Chef Watson

    Lav R. Varshney;Florian Pinel;Kush R. Varshney;Debarun Bhattacharjya

  • RecipeGPT: Generative Pre-training Based Cooking Recipe Generation and Evaluation System

    Helena H. Lee;Ke Shu;Palakorn Achananuparp;Philips Kokoh Prasetyo

  • Distributed Functional Scalar Quantization: High-Resolution Analysis and Extensions

    Vinith Misra;Vivek K. Goyal;Lav R. Varshney

Frequent Co-Authors

Vivek K. Goyal
Vivek K. Goyal Boston University
Kush R. Varshney
Kush R. Varshney IBM (United States)
Mehul Motani
Mehul Motani National University of Singapore
Vincent Y. F. Tan
Vincent Y. F. Tan National University of Singapore
Pramod K. Varshney
Pramod K. Varshney Syracuse University
Caiming Xiong
Caiming Xiong Salesforce (United States)
Sriram Vishwanath
Sriram Vishwanath The University of Texas at Austin
Ee-Peng Lim
Ee-Peng Lim Singapore Management University
Naresh R. Shanbhag
Naresh R. Shanbhag University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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