Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science Sept 2022 - Aug 2027 (Expected)
University of Massachusetts Amherst
GPA: 4.0/4.0
B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering July 2018 - May 2022
Indian Institute of Technology Patna
CGPA: 9.38/10 (Rank: 3/265)
Experience
Research Assistant Sept 2022 - Present
CICS UMass Amherst, MA, USA
• Working on ML and NLP for educational and creative applications.
Applied Scientist Intern June 2024 - Sept 2024
Amazon Web Services, New York City, USA
• Worked with the Bedrock team on Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG).
Applied Scientist Intern June 2023 - Sept 2023
Amazon Web Services, New York City, USA
• Worked with the Quicksight Q team on text-to-SQL problems.
Research Scientist Intern May 2022 - Aug 2022
SciSpace, Bangalore, India
• Worked on video generation from research articles.
Research Assistant July 2019 - May 2022
AI-NLP-ML Lab, IIT Patna, India
• Worked on explainable multi-modal misinformation detection.
Research Intern May 2021 - Aug 2021
IBM Research AI, Bangalore, India
• Worked on detecting ambiguity in input-output annotations for Programming by Example (PBE) systems.
Research Intern Dec 2020 - May 2021
DKE Group, University of Wuppertal, Germany
• Worked on detecting health-based fake news.
Research Intern May 2020 - Aug 2020
VAL Lab, IISc Bangalore, India
• Worked on unlabeled data for adversarial robustness.
Mentoring
- Junyang Lu (Spring 2025-present)
- Keerthi Chebrolu, Sudhip Nashi, Cadence Young (Summer 2025)
- Aman Mehta, Prudhvi Nikku, Pranav Singh, Priya Yarrabolu (Spring 2025)
- Disha Chiplonker, Dishank Jhaveri, Rohan Lekhwani (Spring 2024)
- Saksham Bansal, Hayun Jung, Piyush Maheshwari (Winter 2023)
Service and Leadership
- Member, PhD Application Support Committee (PASP) - UMass CICS (Fall 2023)
- Member, New Student Graduate Committee - UMass CICS (Fall 2022 - Spring 2023)
- Lead, Machine Learning - NJACK CSE Club, IIT Patna (Fall 2020 - Summer 2021)
- Head, Industrial Relations - Entrepreneurship Cell, IIT Patna (Fall 2019 - Summer 2021)
- Departmental Lead - Developer Student Clubs, IIT Patna (Fall 2019 - Summer 2020)