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Last Updated: 09/2026

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science Sept 2022 - Jan 2027 (Expected)
University of Massachusetts Amherst
GPA: 4.0/4.0 (MS awarded in May 2025)

B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering July 2018 - May 2022
Indian Institute of Technology Patna
CGPA: 9.38/10 (Institute Rank: 3rd out of 265)

Industry Research Experience

Machine Learning Research Intern June 2026 - Aug 2026
Netflix, Los Gatos, USA
• Working on Generative Retrieval for powering conversational search.

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 Intern May 2021 - Aug 2021
IBM Research AI, Bangalore, India
• Worked on detecting ambiguity in input-output annotations for Programming by Example (PBE) systems.

Academic Research Experience

Research Assistant Sept 2022 - Present
CICS UMass Amherst, MA, USA
• Working on ML and NLP for educational and creative applications.

Research Assistant July 2019 - May 2022
AI-NLP-ML Lab, IIT Patna, India
• Worked on explainable multi-modal misinformation detection.

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

Undergraduate Mentorship (B.S. Students)
Henry Yang, Hari Umapathy (Spring 2026 - Present)
Payu Wittawatolarn, Kushaan Naskar (Fall 2025)
Junyang Lu (Spring 2025 - Fall 2025)
Keerthi Chebrolu, Sudhip Nashi, Cadence Young (Summer 2025)
Saksham Bansal, Hayun Jung, Piyush Maheshwari (Winter 2023)

Industry Mentorship (M.S. Students)
Harshitha Kolukuluru, Reshma Ashok, Kirat Arora, Evan William Ciccarelli — with Adobe (Spring 2026)
Aman Mehta, Prudhvi Nikku, Pranav Singh, Priya Yarrabolu — with Meta (Spring 2025)
Disha Chiplonker, Dishank Jhaveri, Rohan Lekhwani — with Graphite (Spring 2024)

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, Google Developer Student Clubs, IIT Patna (Fall 2019 - Summer 2020)