Accomplishments & Activities

  • Panelist at a tutorial on the role of meta-learning in few-shot learning, NeurIPS 2022 .

  • Co-Organizer of 5th Workshop on Structured Prediction for NLP (SPNLP) at ACL-IJCNLP 2021

  • Invited Speaker at the Women in Data Science (WiDS) Conference, Bangalore 2021

  • In news: Powering Match Insights for US Open by interfacing with structured knowledge bases

  • Core-track committee member at EMNLP 2020, COLING 2020, AACL-IJCNLP 2020, AAAI 2021-22, NAACL 2021, ACL-IJCNLP 2021

  • Co-Organizer of 4th Workshop on SPNLP at EMNLP 2020

  • My work on "Sustainable Data Science - Minimizing carbon footprint of our ML models" awarded among top three in Booking.com 2020 Hackathon

  • PC Member at NeurIPs 2019, EMNLP 2019

  • 'IBM Research Distinguished Paper Award 2019' for my work on 'Controllable Sparse Alternatives to Softmax'

  • Received IBM Research Division Award 2019 for my contributions to 'Natural Langauge Querying over Structured DBs'

  • Received IBM Research Division Award 2019 for my contributions to 'AI for Fashion'

  • 2019 Internship Program Lead at IBM Reseach

  • Interview with Smithsonian Magazine covering our work on 'Cognitive Prints'

  • Speaker at Gracehopper Celebration 2016 for session on 'Demysitifying Deep Learing' at Houston, Texas

  • 'Outstanding Technical Achievement Award' at IBM for my work on Watson Engagement Advisor

  • Speaker at Gracehopper Celebration India 2015 for session on 'Practical Machine Learning and Data Analytics'

  • 'IBM Research Distinguished Paper Award 2014' for my work on 'Sequential Crowdsourced Labeling'

  • Panelist at Gracehopper Celebration India 2014 for 'Machines That ‘Learn’ To Make A Difference'

  • My work on 'Non-parametric Entity Topic Modeling' received 'IBM Research Distinguished Paper Award 2013'

  • Finalist for ‘Google India Women in Engineering Award 2010’ and and a distinguished invitee at the conclave.

  • Secured All India Rank 4 (among more than 100000 candidates) in Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering(GATE) 2010 with a score of 1000/1000.

  • Received Bronze Medal for securing 3rd rank in B.Tech Computer Engineering, NIT-Surat and secured 1st position in 5th semester with 10.00 on 10.00 grade points.

  • Awarded Student Scholarship to participate in Machine Learning Summer School, MLSS 2010, conducted by NUS, Sigapore.

  • Poster on High Performance LINPACK on Graphics Processing Units accepted at Grace Hopper Celebration ‘10. (also scholarship winner in India)

  • Awarded grant to attend ‘The 16th IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture 2010’ (HPCA-16)

  • Elected as Lady Representative of the Computer Engineering Department at NIT-Surat (2008-09)

  • Among top 15 in ACM ICPC 2010 (International Collegiate Programming Contest) South Asia Regionals

  • Qualified for ACM-ICPC '09 South Asia Regionals and ranked 16th there

  • Ranked 1st in most of the coding/computing competitions at NIT-Surat [CodeSlam, Mindbend’08-09, Code2Win, Quest’08]

  • Cleared IIT JEE-06 and ranked among top 0.1% in AIEEE-06 (state-opener at NIT-Surat).