I am currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at TU Berlin, Germany, under the supervision of Prof. Fatma Deniz. I work on understanding bilinugal language processing in human brain and multilinugal language models.

I completed my PhD in Computer Science at Inria, I was supervised by Dr. Xavier Hinaut and Prof. Alexandre Frederic. During my Ph.D, I also spent time as a visiting scholar at MaxPlanck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS), Germany, where I was supervised by Dr. Mariya Toneva. My main research interests are at the Bridging AI and Neuroscience (Neuro-AI), Language Analysis in the Brain and Language Models, Multimodal brain alignment with multimodal models, and Mechanistic interpretability of language moedls.

Prior to that, I was a Lead Data Scientist at Woundtech Innovative Healthcare Solutions, where I worked on AI-driven solutions for automated wound assessment, patient risk of hospitalization, wound image segmentation and NLP-based document processing to enhance clinician decision-making. Before that, I was a Data Scientist at Teradata R&D, where I worked on NLP, text analytics, machine learning, and graph analytics to enhance Teradata Aster’s AI/ML capabilities.

I post-graduated from the International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT-H), Hyderabad, India, in 2016 with a Master’s Degree (M.Tech) in Computer Science Engineering.

PUBLICATIONS

For a more complete list, please check my Google Scholar page.

Brain-Informed Fine-Tuning for Improved Multilingual Understanding in Language Models

Anuja Negi*, Subba Reddy Oota*, Anwar Nunez-Elizalde, Manish Gupta, Fatma Deniz (* Equal contribution)

NeurIPS 2025(A*)

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Aligning Text/Speech Representations from Multimodal Models with MEG Brain Activity During Listening

Padakanti Srijith, Khushbu Pahwa, Radhika Mamidi, Bapi Raju Surampudi, Manish Gupta, Subba Reddy Oota

EMNLP Main 2025 (Long)(A*)

Instruction-Tuned Video-Audio Models Elucidate Functional Specialization in the Brain

Subba Reddy Oota, Khushbu Pahwa, Prachi Jindal, Satyasai Srinath Namburi, Maneesh Singh, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Raju S. Bapi, Manish Gupta

Arxiv (Pre-print)

USDC: A Dataset of User Stance and Dogmatism in Long Conversations

Mounika Marreddy, Subba Reddy Oota, Venkata Charan Chinni, Manish Gupta, Lucie Flek

ACL Findings 2025 (Long)(A*)

Correlating instruction-tuning (in multimodal models) with vision-language processing (in the brain)

Subba Reddy Oota, Akshett Jindal, Ishani Mondal, Khushbu Pahwa, Satyasai Srinath Namburi, Manish Shrivastava, Maneesh Singh, Raju S. Bapi, Manish Gupta

ICLR 2025(A*)

Multi-modal brain encoding models for multi-modal stimuli

Subba Reddy Oota, Khushbu Pahwa, Maneesh Singh, Raju S. Bapi, Manish Gupta

ICLR 2025(A*)

Deep Neural Networks and Brain Alignment: Brain Encoding and Decoding

Subba Reddy Oota, Zijiao Chen, Manish Gupta, Bapi S. Raju, Gael Jobard, Frederic Alexandre, Xavier Hinaut

TMLR Journal

On Robustness of Finetuned Transformer-based NLP Models

Pavan Kalyan Reddy Neerudu*, Subba Reddy Oota*, Mounika Marreddy, Manish Gupta (* Equal contribution)

EMNLP Findings 2023 (Long)(A*)

Speech Taskonomy: Which Speech Tasks are the most Predictive of fMRI Brain Activity?

Subba Reddy Oota, Veeral Agrawal, Mounika Marreddy, Bapi S. Raju, Manish Gupta

INTERSPEECH 2023(A)

MEG Encoding using Word Context Semantics in Listening Stories

Subba Reddy Oota, Nathan Trouvain, Frederic Alexandre, Xavier Hinaut

INTERSPEECH 2023(A)

Neural Architecture of Speech

Subba Reddy Oota, Khushbu Pahwa, Mounika Marreddy, Bapi S. Raju, Manish Gupta

ICASSP 2023

WSNet: Towards An Effective Method for Wound Image Segmentation

Subba Reddy Oota, Vijay Rowtula, Shahid Mohammad, Manish Gupta

WACV 2023(A)

Visio-Linguistic Brain Encoding

Subba Reddy Oota, Jashn Arora, Vijay Rowtula, Manish Gupta, Bapi S. Raju

COLING 2022 (Long, Oral)(A)

Multi-view and Cross-view Brain Decoding

Subba Reddy Oota, Jashn Arora, Manish Gupta, Bapi S. Raju

COLING 2022 (Long, Oral)(A)

Neural Language Taskonomy: Which NLP Tasks are the Most Predictive of Brain Activity

Subba Reddy Oota, Jashn Arora, Veeral Agrawal, Mounika Marreddy, Bapi S. Raju, Manish Gupta

NAACL 2022 (Long, Oral)(A)

HealTech: A System for Predicting Patient Hospitalization Risk and Wound Progression

Subba Reddy Oota, Vijay Rowtula, Shahid Mohammed, Ming Liu, Jeffrey Galitz, Manish Gupta

WACV 2021(A)