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
| Feb 2025: | Excited to release our new preprint on personalization in story generation. |
| Jan 2025: | PRACTIQ has been accepted at NAACL 2025 main conference! |
| 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 award at the AI4ED Workshop AAAI. |
| May 2023: | Started my internship at AWS AI Labs in NYC working in the Quicksight team on text-to-SQL problems. |
| 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! |