Avik Dutta

Hi! I am Avik Dutta, an Associate Researcher at Microsoft. My research interests span Language Models, Information Retrieval, and Agentic Systems. Currently, I am focused on building efficient collaborative agents and optimizing the cost and latency of the underlying models that power them.

News

Feb 7, 2026	ConDABench: Interactive Evaluation of Language Models for Data Analysis accepted at ACM SIGMOD 2026. 🎉
Oct 6, 2025	ConDABench: Interactive Evaluation of Language Models for Data Analysis accepted at NeurIPS 2025 Workshop on Multi-Turn Interactions in Large Language Models. 🎉
Jun 30, 2025	Promoted to Associate Researcher at Microsoft. 🚀
Oct 2, 2024	Context Matters: Pushing the Boundaries of Open-Ended Answer Generation with Graph-Structured Knowledge Context get accepted at EMNLP 2024 Industry Track. 🎉
Sept 19, 2024	My first-ever first author paper RAR: Retrieval-augmented retrieval for code generation in low resource languages gets accepted at EMNLP 2024 Main conference. 🎉
May 27, 2024	My first paper DistALANER: Distantly Supervised Active Learning Augmented Named Entity Recognition in the Open Source Software Ecosystem gets accepted at ECML-PKDD 2024 ADS Track. 🎉
Oct 31, 2023	Joined PROSE team at Microsoft Research Pvt Ltd, Bengaluru, as a Research Fellow.
July 3, 2023	Joined Piramal Finance as a Graduate Engineer Trainee for Business Analytics.