Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Institute of Computer Science, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia (2020-2023).
Courses: Machine Learning [Slides], Neural Networks [Blog], Natural Language Processing [Poster], Business Data Analytics, Network Science, Seminar on Natural Language Processing, Communicating Science, Statistical Data Science [Slides], etc.
Thesis: Fighting Misinformation In The Digital Age [PhD Blog] (Mentored by Dr. Rajesh Sharma).
Master of Technology (M.Tech. in Computer Science Analytics), National Institute of Technology, (NIT) Delhi, India [Gold Medalist] (2015-2017).
Courses: Machine Learning, Data Mining, Soft Computing, Big Data Analysis, Quantitative Techniques, Game Theory, Computational Mathematics, Research Methodology, etc.
Thesis: Deep Learning in Computer Vision for Real-world Scene Recognition (Mentored by Dr. Akanksha Juneja) resulted in the publication of a paper.
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech. in Computer Science Engineering), Jan Nayak Ch. Devi Lal Vidyapeeth, Sirsa, Haryana, India (2008-2012).
Courses: Fundamentals of C, Object-oriented Programming, Data Structures, Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Mathematics, Software Engineering, etc.
Qualified National Eligibility Test (NET) in 2020.
Qualified Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) in 2012 and 2015.
Assistant Professor, School of Artificial Intelligence (SoAI), Bennett University (Times of India Group), Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India (March 2024 - Present).
Junior Researcher, Institute of Computer Science, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia (July 2020 - Jan 2024).
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The NorthCap University, Gurugram, Haryana, India (July 2018 - May 2020).
Graduate Programmer, Fidelity International Company, Gurugram, Haryana, India (June 2017 - June 2018).
Teaching Assistant, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technology (NIT), Delhi, India (Aug 2015- June 2017).
Supervised five Master's degree students from Northcap University, Gurugram, Haryana, India, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia. During my supervision, the students worked on the following papers/theses under my guidance:
DENATURE: duplicate detection and type identification in open source bug repositories.
A Network-Based Model for Television Services Churn Prediction.
Exposing the Behavior of Rumour Spreaders on Twitter: Targeted vs. Non-Targeted Rumour.
Analysis of Multilingual Fact-Checked COVID-19 Articles.
Supervised ten Bachelor's degree students from International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Hyderabad, India, Indian Institute Of Technology (IIT), Goa, India, BITS Pilani - Hyderabad, India, The NorthCap University, Gurugram, Haryana, India and Bennett University Greater Noida, UP, India. During my supervision, the students worked on the following papers under my guidance:
GENIE: Benchmark Datasets for GENder Inclusive English-to-Hindi Translation
BhashaHMPV: Multilingual HMPV News Articles Dataset for Indian Regional Languages
GAME-ON: Graph Attention Network based Multimodal Fusion for Fake News Detection.
FaCov: COVID-19 Viral News and Rumors Fact-Check Articles Dataset.
Privilege of collaborating with Mohit Mayank from Outplay, India on the research paper entitled DEAP-FAKED: Knowledge Graph based Approach for Fake News Detection.
PhD Research Intern with Faculty Mentor Nikolaos Aletras at the Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom (March 5, 2023 - April 7 , 2023). [Blog]
PhD Research Intern at PRECOG with Faculty Mentor Prof. Ponnurangam Kumaraguru "PK" at the International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Hyderabad, India (May 1, 2022 - July 31, 2022).
EU Horizon 2020 SoBigData++ Research Fellowship (2023)
Ph.D. Research Fellowship (2020 - 2023)
Awarded Gold Medal in M.Tech (2017)
M.H.R.D. M.Tech Fellowship (2015 - 2017)
Qualified GATE CSE in 2012, 2015