Aditya Kaushik
Surikuchi
PhD Candidate
University of Amsterdam
Netherlands
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Education

University of Amsterdam 2021 – now PhD - Faculty of Science, Mathematics, and Computer Science
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Raquel Fernández, Asst Prof. Dr. Sandro Pezzelle Topic(s): Language Generation from Visual Events
Aalto University 2017 – 2019 M.Sc - Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
Supervisor: Dr. Jorma Laaksonen D.Sc. (Tech.) Thesis: Visual Storytelling: Captioning of Image Sequences
Amrita University 2010 – 2014 B.Tech - Computer Science and Engineering
Supervisor: Assoc Prof. Dr. Bhadrachalam Chitturi Thesis: Enumerating Trees in Graphs with Constant Maximum Degree
Aditya Kaushik
Surikuchi
PhD Candidate
University of Amsterdam
Netherlands
LinkedIn Semantic scholar Google scholar X

Publications

Movie Facts and Fibs (MF2): A Benchmark for Long Movie Understanding
Preprint, 2025
Zaranis, E., Farinhas, A., Santos, S., Canaverde, B., Ramos, M. M., Surikuchi, A. K., Liao, B., Bueno-Benito, E., Viveiros, A. G. N., Sivakumaran, N., Vasylenko, P., Yu, S., Sannigrahi, S., Mohammed, W., Peters, B., Villegas, D. S., Stengel-Eskin, E., Attanasio, G., Yoon, J., Frank, S., Suglia, A., Zerva, C., Elliott, D., Dimiccoli, M., Bansal, M., Lanz, O., Bernardi, R., Fernández, R., Pezzelle, S., Niculae, V., Martins, A. F. T.
Natural Language Generation from Visual Events: Challenges and Future Directions
Preprint, 2025
Surikuchi, A. K., Fernández, R., Pezzelle, S.
On the Challenges in Evaluating Visually Grounded Stories
Published in Text2Story workshop (ECIR 2025)
Surikuchi, A. K., Fernández, R., Pezzelle, S.
LLMs instead of Human Judges? A Large Scale Empirical Study across 20 NLP Evaluation Tasks
Published in ACL 2025
(authors arranged alphabetically)
Bavaresco, A., Bernardi, R., Bertolazzi, L., Elliott, D., Fernández, R., Gatt, A., Ghaleb, E., Giulianelli, M., Hanna, M., Koller, A., Martins, A. F. T., Mondorf, P., Neplenbroek, V., Pezzelle, S., Plank, B., Schlangen, D., Suglia, A., Surikuchi, A. K., Takmaz, E., Testoni, A.
Not (yet) the whole story: Evaluating Visual Storytelling Requires More than Measuring Coherence, Grounding, and Repetition
Published in EMNLP 2024 Findings
Surikuchi, A. K., Fernández, R., Pezzelle, S.
GROOViST: A Metric for Grounding Objects in Visual Storytelling
Published in EMNLP 2023
Surikuchi, A. K., Pezzelle, S., Fernández, R.
Character-Centric Storytelling
Presented at StoryNLP workshop (ACL 2019)
Surikuchi, A. K., Laaksonen, J.

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