I am a PhD student at Inria Paris working with the Articulab group (part of Almanach) under Prof. Justine Cassell and Prof. Laurent Romary. I am currently working on multimodal conversational grounding.

I have done an Integrated Master of Technology (B.Tech + M.Tech) majoring in Computer Science and Engineering at IIIT Bangalore, India. During my undergrad, I interned at IBM Research AI, Siemens Research and was also a Google Summer of Codes Scholar(GSOC) in 2018. For my Master's thesis, I worked on ontological embedding for faster reasoning under Prof. G. Srinivasaraghavan in collaboration with IBM Research AI (Sumit Bhatia) and Knowledgable Computing and Reasoning Lab. 

I am looking into the field of spoken dialogs and building spoken dialog systems that are robust in terms of conversational grounding. Thus, I am looking into the field of common grounds during the conversation, the representation and effective storage of the grounded information over a period of time along with looking into neural architectures to provide the grounding ability into the dialog systems. 

I have a keen interest in working in the field of NLP, Multimodal Machine Learning, and specifically in the field of Conversational AI. I have experience working on Machine Translations, Knowledge Graphs, and Ontologies. Prior to my endeavor in research, I have contributed to Open Sourced Organisations like OpenStreetMap. I also co-created an online digital simulator Circuitverse during my first year of undergraduate which is today a vibrant open-sourced community with millions of users.

You can find a list of my papers in the Google Scholar, or Semantic Scholar.