I am a CS master’s student at Language Technologies Institute, CMU majoring in Intelligent Information Systems (MIIS.)
I am a research assistant under Dr. Alan Black working on constrained text rewriting in recipe domain.
Additionally, I serve as the Graduate Student Assembly representative for MIIS (sometimes we party!)
My pronouns are he/him/his.
My Research
My research interests include but are not limited to: multilingual and cross-lingual learning (dealing with low-resource languages; transfer learning), representation learning (language change across time; semantic retrieval and pair alignment), creative language generation, human-computer interaction, and studying bias & fairness in NLP models.
I am also interested in automatic speech recognition.
My Background
I was born and raised in Varanasi, India, one of the oldest continously inhabited cities in the world.
In 2016, I moved to New Delhi, India to join Shiv Nadar University (youngest university to be declared an Institute of Eminence by the Govt of India) where I graduated from as a CS major with a minor in mathematics in 2020.
Until early 2021, I was a research assistant at Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab, TU Darmstadt working with Dr. Nils Reimers and Prof. Iryna Gurevych on cross-domain information retrieval systems.
For my thesis semester from January to July 2020, I was a research intern at Microsoft Research India working with Dr Monojit Choudhury and Dr Kalika Bali as a part of Project Mélange.
During the summer of 2019, I interned with Dr Djamé Seddah as a part of Team ALMAnaCH at Inria Paris.
In my free time, I learn whatever musical instrument I can lay my hands on including but not limited to: Harmonium (Indian Reed Instrument), Bansuri (Indian bamboo flute), harmonica, keyboard, guitar and the ukulele.
News
Nov 2022 – I will graduate from my master’s in December ‘22!
Dec 2021 – I will intern at Apple in Summer ‘22!