PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Amit Goyal

Amit Goyal is an applied scientist at Amazon Music whose papers span natural-language processing, image description, and streaming-media research. His early work included streaming language models, narrative-text representations, and scalable NLP sketches; he completed a University of Maryland PhD in 2012 and coauthored Midge. The ACL gave Midge its 2022 Test-of-Time Paper Award. In 2026, he coauthored SAGE on music-streaming fraud and helped organize a WSDM workshop on generative AI for streaming media.

Now at
Amazon Music

Timeline

  1. 2009

    Streaming language models

    He coauthors a NAACL paper on streaming language modeling in 2009 with Hal Daumé III and Suresh Venkatasubramanian.

  2. 2010

    Plot-unit representations

    He coauthors a 2010 EMNLP paper on automatically producing plot-unit representations for narrative text with Ellen Riloff and Hal Daumé III.

  3. 2011

    Bounded-space NLP sketches

    With Hal Daumé III, he publishes a 2011 EMNLP paper titled Approximate Scalable Bounded Space Sketch for Large Data NLP.

  4. 2012

    A PhD and two papers

    He completes a University of Maryland PhD in 2012 with a dissertation on streaming and sketch algorithms. In 2012, he coauthors Fast Large-Scale Approximate Graph Construction for NLP and Midge: Generating Image Descriptions From Computer Vision Detections.

  5. 2019

    Criteo at W-NUT

    In 2019, he serves on W-NUT's program committee with Criteo as his affiliation.

  6. 2022

    A Test-of-Time award

    The ACL awards Midge its 2022 Test-of-Time Paper Award, with Goyal among the paper's authors.

  7. As of October 2026

    SAGE and GenAI4SM

    In 2026, he coauthors SAGE, a WSDM paper on music-streaming fraud detection, and is one of the organizers of GenAI4SM, a WSDM workshop on generative AI for streaming media. As of October 2026, he is an applied scientist at Amazon Music.

Sources and credits

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  1. Streaming for large scale NLP: Language Modeling - ACL Anthology aclanthology.org. Checked 15 October 2026.
  2. Automatically Producing Plot Unit Representations for Narrative Text - ACL Anthology aclanthology.org. Checked 15 October 2026.
  3. Approximate Scalable Bounded Space Sketch for Large Data NLP - ACL Anthology aclanthology.org. Checked 15 October 2026.
  4. Hal Daumé III - advisees users.umiacs.umd.edu. Checked 15 October 2026.
  5. Fast Large-Scale Approximate Graph Construction for NLP - ACL Anthology aclanthology.org. Checked 15 October 2026.
  6. Midge: Generating Image Descriptions From Computer Vision Detections - ACL Anthology aclanthology.org. Checked 15 October 2026.
  7. W-NUT 2019: Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (at EMNLP) noisy-text.github.io. Checked 15 October 2026.
  8. Announcement of the 2022 ACL Test-of-Time Paper Award aclweb.org. Checked 15 October 2026.
  9. Amit Goyal - Amazon Science amazon.science. Checked 15 October 2026.
  10. People - CLIP wiki.umiacs.umd.edu. Checked 15 October 2026.
  11. GenAI4SM 2026 genai4streamingmedia-workshop.github.io. Checked 15 October 2026.