Research Interests

Information Retrieval in the Legal Domain

Information Extraction from Social Media Text

Fairness in Summarization

Multimodal Information Retrieval

Machine Learning

Natural Language Processing 

Interpretability of Large Language Models (LLMs)

Other interests

Creative writing in Bangla (my blog).

INTERNSHIPS

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research POSITIONS

I am looking for motivated PhD students with strong technical (ML / NLP) and communication skills. Please email me with your detailed CV if you are interested. You should also apply via IISER-K portal when the link is up.

Long-distance research collaborations are possible. However, that will need a commitment of at least 6 months (once committed, you won't have an option to discontinue). Drop me a CV if you are interested. Desired qualities: strong programming skills (preferably in Python); Bonus qualities: knowledge in ML/NLP.

Updates

Papers accepted at ACL 2026, EACL 2026, COLING 2026, ICAIL 2026, COLING 2025, NAACL 2025, ICWSM 2025, ASONAM 2025, ACL 2025, EMNLP 2025, IJCNLP-AACL 2025. Thanks to my wonderful collaborators!

Papers accepted at the AI and Law journal. Thanks to my collaborators.

Tutorial proposal accepted at ECIR 2023. Thanks to my collaborators Debasis da, Saptarshi da, Jack, Dr. Goyal, Paheli, Shubham and Shounak.

Paper accepted at AACL-IJCNLP 2022. Thanks to my collaborators Saptarshi da, Dr. Goyal, and their students Paheli, Soham, Rajdeep, and Abhay.

Paper accepted in the Information Processing and Management journal, Elsevier (IF: 7.466). Thanks to my collaborators Paheli, Saptarshi da, and Arindam da.

I have been inducted into the Editorial Board of the Artificial Intelligence and Law journal.

Our paper covered by Times of India, news here: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/court-verdict-in-a-jiffy-ai-could-be-answer-says-iit-k-research/articleshow/84459562.cms

Our paper won the Best Student Paper Award at ICAIL 2021. Congratulations Paheli!

Journal paper titled "A Sequence Labeling Model for Catchphrase Identification from Legal Case Documents" accepted at Artificial Intelligence and Law. Thanks to my collaborators Arpan, Saptarshi da, and Sekhar sir.

Full Conference paper accepted at ACL-IJCNLP 2021 (theme track). Thanks to my collaborators Vijit, Rishabh, Shubham, Shouvik, Arnab da and Ashutosh.

Full Conference paper accepted at ICAIL 2021. Thanks to my collaborators Paheli, Soham, Koustav and Saptarshi da.