CV

Education

• Ph.D in Version Control Theory, GitHub University, 2018 (expected)
• M.S. in Jekyll, GitHub University, 2014
• B.S. in GitHub, GitHub University, 2012

Work experience

• Spring 2024: Academic Pages Collaborator
  • GitHub University
  • Duties includes: Updates and improvements to template
  • Supervisor: The Users
• Fall 2015: Research Assistant
  • GitHub University
  • Duties included: Merging pull requests
  • Supervisor: Professor Hub
• Summer 2015: Research Assistant
  • GitHub University
  • Duties included: Tagging issues
  • Supervisor: Professor Git

Skills

• Skill 1
• Skill 2
  • Sub-skill 2.1
  • Sub-skill 2.2
  • Sub-skill 2.3
• Skill 3

Publications

Does Context Matter? A Prosodic Comparison of English and Spanish in Monolingual and Multilingual Discourse Settings

Debasmita Bhattacharya, David Sasu, Michela Marchini, Natalie Schluter, and Julia Hirschberg. 2025. Does Context Matter? A Prosodic Comparison of English and Spanish in Monolingual and Multilingual Discourse Settings. In Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 23319–23333, Suzhou, China. Association for Computational Linguistics.

Discourse-Driven Code-Switching: Analyzing the Role of Content and Communicative Function in Spanish-English Bilingual Speech

Debasmita Bhattacharya, Juan Junco, Divya Tadimeti, and Julia Hirschberg. 2025. Discourse-Driven Code-Switching: Analyzing the Role of Content and Communicative Function in Spanish-English Bilingual Speech. In Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 23415–23430, Suzhou, China. Association for Computational Linguistics.

Code-switching in Context: Investigating the Role of Discourse Topic in Bilingual Speech Production

Debasmita Bhattacharya, Anxin Yi, Siying Ding, and Julia Hirschberg. 2025. Code-switching in Context: Investigating the Role of Discourse Topic in Bilingual Speech Production. In Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse, Context and Document-Level Inferences (CODI 2025), pages 64–80, Suzhou, China. Association for Computational Linguistics.

From Context to Code-switching: Examining the Interplay of Language Proficiency and Multilingualism in Speech

Bhattacharya, D., Tolat, A., Hirschberg, J. (2025) From Context to Code-switching: Examining the Interplay of Language Proficiency and Multilingualism in Speech. Proc. Interspeech 2025, 4528-4532, doi: 10.21437/Interspeech.2025-165

Switching Tongues, Sharing Hearts: Identifying the Relationship between Empathy and Code-switching in Speech

Bhattacharya, D., Lin, E., Chen, R., Hirschberg, J. (2024) Switching Tongues, Sharing Hearts: Identifying the Relationship between Empathy and Code-switching in Speech. Proc. Interspeech 2024, 492-496, doi: 10.21437/Interspeech.2024-1224

Measuring Entrainment in Spontaneous Code-switched Speech

Debasmita Bhattacharya, Siying Ding, Alayna Nguyen, and Julia Hirschberg. 2024. Measuring Entrainment in Spontaneous Code-switched Speech. In Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 2865–2876, Mexico City, Mexico. Association for Computational Linguistics.

Capturing Formality in Speech Across Domains and Languages

Bhattacharya, D., Chi, J., Hirschberg, J., Bell, P. (2023) Capturing Formality in Speech Across Domains and Languages. Proc. Interspeech 2023, 1030-1034, doi: 10.21437/Interspeech.2023-1852

Talks

Conference Proceeding talk 3 on Relevant Topic in Your Field

March 01, 2014

Conference proceedings talk at Testing Institute of America 2014 Annual Conference, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Talk 2 on Relevant Topic in Your Field

February 01, 2014

Talk at London School of Testing, London, UK

Tutorial 1 on Relevant Topic in Your Field

March 01, 2013

Tutorial at UC-Berkeley Institute for Testing Science, Berkeley, CA, USA

Talk 1 on Relevant Topic in Your Field

March 01, 2012

Talk at UC San Francisco, Department of Testing, San Francisco, CA, USA

Teaching

Columbia University (2023-present)

Cornell University (2018-2021)

Service and leadership

• Currently signed in to 43 different slack teams