About

Hello! I am a Computer Science MS-PhD Student at the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst. My areas of interest include Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing and AI for Social Good. I work in the ML for Education Lab advised by Prof. Andrew Lan. As a graduate student I have interned twice at AWS AI Labs in the Quicksight Q Team and AWS Bedrock.

I graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Patna where I was advised by Prof. Asif Ekbal in the AI-NLP-ML Lab from my sophomore year. During my undergrad days, I also had wonderful opportunities interning/collaborating with several industrial (SciSpace, IBM Research, Wipro Research) and academic labs (IR group at UIC, DKE group at BUW, VAL group at IISc Bangalore).

News

Oct 2024:Excited to release our new pre-print PRACTIQ a novel conversational text-to-SQL dataset with ambiguous and unanswerable queries.
June 2024:Started my internship at the AWS AI Labs working in the Bedrock team on Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
Apr 2024:Our paper on Socratic Question Generation has been accepted at BEA Workshop co-located with NAACL 2024
Feb 2024:Our paper recieved best runner-up paper award at the AI4ED Workshop AAAI. Presenting the work in Vancouver!
Dec 2023:Our paper on student-code guided test case generation has been accepted at the AAAI-2024 AI4ED Workshop.
May 2023:Started my internship at AWS AI Labs in NYC.
May 2023:Our paper on reading comprehension received outstanding paper mention and oral acceptance at the BEA Workshop - ACL 2023
May 2023:Awarded the CICS Victor Lesser Graduate Scholarship in Artificial Intelligence
April 2023:Our paper on Causal Discovery in Knowledge Tracing has been accepted at EDM 2023
Jan 2023:Awarded the CICS Common Good Fellowship for Spring 2023
Sept 2022:Our paper on emotion and novelty aware multi-lingual multimodal misinformation detection has been accepted at AACL-IJCNLP 2023
Sept 2022:Started my MS-PhD in Computer Science at UMass Amherst and awarded the CICS doctoral scolarship for incoming students. I will be working in the ML for Education lab with Prof. Andrew Lan