I'm currently a Senior Student Research Associate at BharatGen, where I focus on building responsible and domain-specific AI systems for India, particularly in the legal domain. My work lies at the intersection of Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, and Legal AI, with an emphasis on creating interpretable, real-world solutions that empower legal understanding and transparency.

As part of my ongoing doctoral research (Ph.D.) in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Kanpur (under the guidance of Prof. Arnab Bhattacharya), I’ve worked extensively on Legal NLP problems like judgment prediction, factual explanation, rhetorical role segmentation, and retrieval-augmented reasoning. This journey has led to the development of several large-scale datasets, instruction-tuned LLMs, and evaluation frameworks, many of which have been open-sourced through initiatives like BharatGen and L-NLProc on HuggingFace.
My work has resulted in several publications at premier NLP venues, including ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, and COLING.

I am also a recipient of the prestigious DAAD Postdoc-NeT-AI Fellowship (Germany), which supports global collaboration and research exchange in trustworthy and explainable AI.

Before joining IIT Kanpur, I worked at the Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA) under the Ministry of Defence, where I contributed to real-time software optimization for avionics and weapon systems.

I completed my M.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering from Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST) Shibpur, where I worked with Prof. Saptarshi Ghosh on my thesis titled “Solving the Heavy Hitters Problem for Streaming Data.” The work involved implementing and analyzing algorithms like Count-Min Sketch, SpaceSaving, and Lossy Counting, and proposing improvements for efficient frequency estimation in high-speed data streams. The thesis contributed to a deeper understanding of approximation trade-offs in real-time systems such as network monitoring, recommendation engines, and database query optimization.

I also hold a B.E. in Information Technology from RGPV Bhopal.