Experience
Predoctoral Researcher, Google Research, India - Natural Language Understanding Group
July 2021 - Jume 2023 | Advisors: Dr. Partha Talukdar and Dr. Vinodkumar Prabhakaran
Analysing biases in NLP models and data in Indian Context [AACL 2022]
Mitigating India-specific biases in encoder models using counterfactual data [In-progress]
Research Intern, Microsoft Research, India - Speech and Natural Language Processing Group
August 2020 - June 2021 | Advisors: Dr. Sunayana Sitaram and Dr. Monojit Choudhary
Developed a pipeline to generate interpretable evaluation suites at scale for multiple tasks and languages. [Findings of AACL 2022 2022]
Worked on evaluation & improvement of NLP systems using human-in-loop techniques. [HumEval at EACL’21]
Wrote my bachelor thesis on the limitations and capabilities of large language models. [ICON 2021]
August 2019 - August 2020 | Advisor: Dr. Yashvardhan Sharma
Worked on multimodal fake news detection integrating language, vision, metadata, source credibility, and explanations.
Achieved state-of-the-art performance on the LIAR-Plus and FakeNewsNet datasets. [ICDMAI 2021]
Software Development Intern, Arcesium, Hyderabad
May 2020 - June 2020 | Team: MCA-Dev (Ledger automation)
Automated an accounting process reducing the service time from 2-3 hours to less than one minute.
Built UI using TypeScript with React & MobX & backend services using Java-11 with Spring & MyBatis.
Artificial Intelligence Intern, Bhaskaracharya Institute for Space Applications and Geo-Informatics, Gandhinagar
May 2019 - July 2019 | Advisor: Dr. Manoj Pandya
Developed an application for Detection of Changes in Land Usage using Remote Sensing Imagery & ML.
Integrated web-services to obtain satellite data from Sentinel Hub (a cloud-based GIS Platform).
Used OpenCV & scikit-learnto detect changes using Structural Similarity Index and k-NN methods.
Android Application Develop Intern, Techmicra, Ahmedabad
June 2018 - July 2018
Built a mobile application for logging work hours, leave registrations and schedule sharing for employees.