Welcome!
I am a research specialist in the Department of Computer Science at the AI Institute, University of South Carolina. I am working under the supervision of Prof. Amit Sheth. My research focuses on building machine-learning models for automatic fact verification (Published work at top AI conferences like ACL, EMNLP, and AAAI). My work on fact verification was recently covered by Stanford’s NLP group over Twitter.
A part of my work is to use NLP techniques on social media data to understand human behavior. I have explored a research direction to understand why people lie, what they gain from such lies, and how those lies impact society, how deception links to propaganda techniques. I also work under the guidance of Dr. Kokil Jaidka to explore emotional changes around events like Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter.
I have worked as a research scientist with a health tech startup called Shaip AI in the past. Before this, I worked as an NLP Engineer at the research and development ML team of Cactus Communications and as a Data Scientist with a US-based InsurTech Company Verisk Analytics after completing my post-graduation in AI&ML. Before my post-graduation, I worked with early-stage Edtech and fintech startups in the data science and analytics domain.
I have consulted for universities and startups in the past and I am open to similar opportunities. l am starting my graduate studies at MIT from Aug 2024.
News
Started summer internship at Adobe Research [Jun 2024]
Extended Abstract accepted at IC2S2 [Apr 2024]
Organizing a workshop on multimodal Hate Detection and fact verification at AAAI 2024 in Vancouver, Canada [Feb 2024] [Link]
Reviewer for LREC COLING 2024; ACL 2024 [Jan 2024]
A paper on the hallucination mitigation survey is available on Arxiv [Jan 2024] [Paper Link]
Reviewer for NAACL 2024 [Dec 2023]
A paper on Deception Detection is available on Arxiv [Dec 2023] [Paper Link]
Paper on fact verification accepted at EMNLP main conference 2023 [Dec 2023] [Paper Link]
Moved to Columbia, US to start as a research specialist under Dr Amit Sheth [Sep 2023] [Link]
Attending ACL 2023 in Toronto, Canada [Jul 2023] [Link]
Appointed as a program committee member for ClinicalNLP for ACL 2024 [Jul 2023] [Link]
Awarded Diversity and Inclusion scholarship to present at ACL 2023 [Jun 2023]
Paper on fact verification accepted to ACL 2023 Main conference [May 2023] [Paper Link]
Appointed as reviewer and program committee member at Clinical NLP workshop co-located with ACL 2023 [Apr 2023]
2 papers accepted at Defactify workshop, AAAI 2023 [Dec 2022]
Appointed as Defactify Workshop Co-organizer at AAAI'23 on multimodal multilingual hate speech detection [Nov 2022]