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I am currently serving as Director, Data Science, at AI Garage, Mastercard; where I lead a team of around 20 data scientists who focus on developing AI/ML algorithms for the financial domain for developing robust real-time products. My research interests are machine learning and deep learning with applications to sequential data modelling for the financial domain and biometrics. As part of my role at Mastercard, I have worked on identifying research streams in line with business needs resulting in patents, publications, and innovations across products. I am the recipient of the Women in AI award in Finance (APAC region), 2023, the IEEE Best Doctoral Dissertation Award, 2022, and am also serving as the Women in Engineering co-ordinator for the IEEE Biometrics Council. I was also one of the top 200 researchers selected globally for the Heidelberg Laureate Forum, 2022 as a young professional in the industry (in Mathematics and Computer Science). Prior to this, I have done my PhD from IIIT-Delhi, with Prof. Richa Singh, and Prof. Mayank Vatsa. My research interests include Sequential Modelling, Face Recognition, and Machine Learning,. 

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Past Updates:

• Organizing the Second International Workshop on Modelling Uncertainty in the Financial World (MUFin'22) in conjunction with ECML-PKDD 2022!

• Chosen to attend the prestigious Heidelberg Laureate Forum, 2022, in Germany!

• Excited to serve as the Technical Chair for CVPR 2022!

• Organizing the First International Workshop on Modelling Uncertainty in Financial World in conjunction with CIKM2021!

• Currently serving as the Women in Engineering co-ordinator for the IEEE Biometrics Council!

• Excited to have been able to share my PhD experience via the IEEE Biometrics Council's Newsletter! Read Here!

• Joined AI Garage, Mastercard, India in May'20, as a Senior Specialist!

• Attended the LinkedIn-MSR-IISC Workshop on FATE-ML  (Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics in Machine Learning) at IISC, Bangalore!

• I will be presenting my work at the Doctoral Consortium, ICCV, 2019, along with the paper 'Dual Directed Capsule Networks for Very Low resolution Image Classification' at the main conference

• I, along with my team, were awarded the Facebook's Ethics in AI research award, 2019 for our research on "Mitigating Bias in Face Recognition For Vast Regional Diversity in India".

• Data and Competition Evaluation Chair, Disguised Faces in the Wild (DFW) Competition and Workshop, to be held at ICCV'19

• Part of the Organising Team for Disguised Faces in the Wild (DFW) Competition and Workshop, held at CVPR'18 

• Visiting research scholar at West Virginia University, USA with Dr. Afzel Noore (Oct'16 - June'17)

• Recipient of Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship, 2015