Simon Sarkar

Research Assistant

I am a Research Associate working for Insight Centre for Data Analytics at the University of Galway. Under the supervision of  Dr. Paul Buitelaar in the Unit for Natural Language Processing (UNLP), I am currently working on the Fidelity project (work package 2 of Phase 5). The research work aims at building an explainable Knowledge Graph based recommendation system Prior to this I have worked on a Huawei project, which involved determining semantic similarities between the user query and standard questions. I have graduated with MSc. in Data Analytics from National College of Ireland (NCI) in 2020. My thesis based on Reinforcement learning was focused on implementation of Optimisation of Actor- Critic Policy in Continuous Action Space. During my Bachelor’s in Computer Applications, I interned with Syniti in the domain of HR Analytics.