I am very interested in natural language processing, human language understanding, machine learning theory and applications, and information retrieval, and all that in monolingual, multilingual, and multi-modal (vision-text-speech) settings. This includes (but is not limited to): cross-lingual, multilingual and multi-modal representation learning, modularity and composability of ML models, sample-efficient, parameter-efficient and few-shot ML, transfer learning for enabling responsible cross-lingual NLP applications for low-resource languages and dialects, multi-modal semantics, conversational AI and multilingual dialogue modeling , Integration of external knowledge into ML models, cross-lingual, multilingual and multi-modal information search, few-shot and unsupervised learning for NLP, debiasing and safety for ML and NLP, (multilingual) speech recognition and text-to-speech generation, multilingual resource creation for NLP models, integration of language technology, etc.