Jan 2019 - Jun 2024: Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India.
July 2014 - May 2016: M. Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India.
July 2008 - May 2012: B. Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from the Institute of Engineering & Management, Kolkata, India.
Jun 2024 - Aug 2025: Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, United States.
May 2021 - July 2021: Applied Scientist Intern at Amazon Development Center India Pvt. Ltd, Bengaluru, India.
Dec 2016 - Dec 2018: Software Development Engineer (SDE 1) at Flipkart Internet Private Limited, India.
May 2015 - July 2015: Research Intern at Flipkart Internet Private Limited, India.
July 2016 - Nov 2016: Research Assistant at Sponsored Research and Industrial Consultancy, IIT Kharagpur.
Oct 2012 - Jun 2014: Programmer Analyst at Cognizant Technology Solutions India Private Limited, Kolkata, India.
AI/ML: Strong foundation in AI/ML, covering supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning methods, along with probabilistic modeling. Well-versed in NLP and its advanced applications with Large Language Model (LLM).
LLMs and Post-training: In-depth knowledge of LLMs and Transformer-based architectures, and post-training LLMs through supervised fine-tuning (including LoRA and PEFT) and reinforcement learning (PPO, DPO, GRPO).
Conversational AI: Experienced in building conversational systems, including implementing agents with advanced reasoning techniques such as Chain-of-Thought (CoT) and ReAct (Reason+Act).
Text Evaluation: Proficient in developing text evaluation metrics and using LLMs as judges.
Programming Languages: Python (primary), Java, C
Miscellaneous: NumPy, Pandas, PyTorch, Transformers, TRL, SQL, Shell script
Jul 2025: Presented our paper titled "Know Your Mistakes: Towards Preventing Overreliance on Task-Oriented Conversational AI Through Accountability Modeling" at ACL 2025.
Dec 2023: Presented our paper titled "DialoGen: Generalized Long-Range Context Representation for Dialogue Systems" at PACLC 2023.
Jun 2023: Talk on "Dialog Systems: Past, Present, and Future" at IIT Hyderabad.
Sep 2023: Presented poster of our paper titled "Dial-M: A Masking-based Framework for Dialogue Evaluation" at SIGDIAL 2023.
May 2022: Presented poster of our paper titled "Towards Fair Evaluation of Dialogue State Tracking by Flexible Incorporation of Turn-level Performances" at ACL 2022.
Jul 2021: Presented our work titled "Hi-DST: A hierarchical approach for scalable and extensible dialogue state tracking" at SIGDIAL 2021.
Nominated for best short paper at SIGDIAL 2023 conference.
Selected to attend Research Week with Google (2023 and 2024) organized by Google Research.
Received MHRD PhD Fellowship (INR 35,000 per month) from the Government of India during five years of PhD (2019-2023).
Qualified for GATE (Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering) with an All India Rank of 261.
Teaching Assistant for academic courses Natural Language Processing (Spring'20,21,22,23), Foundations of Machine Learning (Fall’22), Information Retrieval (Fall’20,21), and Introduction to Programming (Fall’23) at IIT Hyderabad.
Took lectures/hands-on sessions and provided project mentorship for the NLP/IR courses at IIT Hyderabad.
Conducted lab sessions for the AIET course organized at IIT Hyderabad during 2020-2023.
Reviewer: EMNLP (2022, 2024), AAAI (2022), ACL (2023, 2024, 2025), NeurIPS (2024, 2025), and ICML (2025).
Area chair: EACL 2026
Student volunteer for ACML 2022.