Elected Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) in 2024.
Recipient of the ACM India Early Career Award 2022 (awarded in 2023).
Received Outstanding Paper Award at ACL 2019.
IBM Faculty Award recipient in 2016.
Multiple Google Focused Research Awards (2015, 2016).
Received an Accenture Open Innovation grant in 2015.
Served in key roles: Action Editor for TACL (since 2020), Area Co-Chair for ACL 2016, Senior PC Member for IJCAI 2016, PC Co-Chair for CODS 2017.
Delivered tutorials and invited talks at top conferences including EMNLP 2019, ICML 2019, and KDD 2018.
Background
Currently leads the Languages Group at Google DeepMind India and serves as a lead in Gemini Multilinguality.
Aims to ensure that Gemini and AI benefit all of humanity by removing language and cultural barriers.
Works on all aspects of LLM development (pretraining, posttraining, evaluations), with impact on Google products like Gemini App, Assistant, and Search.
Founded KENOME to help enterprises make sense of unstructured data using Knowledge Graphs.
Former faculty member at IISc Bangalore, researching NLP, ML, and Knowledge Graphs.
Recent research focuses on multilingual and multimodal learning, learning in low-resource settings, and multicultural learning in the context of LLMs.