Manan Uppadhyay

Manan Uppadhyay

Research Fellow, Microsoft Research India. Multilingual NLP, interpretability, safety.

The Role of Synthetic Data in Multilingual, Multicultural AI Systems: Lessons from Indic Languages

Published in ACL 2026, 2026

Developed UPDESH, a 9.5 million-sample culturally grounded synthetic instruction dataset across 13 Indic languages to narrow performance gaps in multilingual AI. Accepted at ACL 2026 (Main track). Preprint: arXiv:2509.21294.