- Papers have over 3200 citations with an h-index of 27 (as of September 2025)
- Lead or co-investigator in grants totaling A$3.1M, including Defence Trailblazer, Google, NHMRC, and AEA Ignite projects
- Published in top conferences such as ACL, EMNLP, COLING, and CONLL
- Published in journals like ACM Computing Surveys and PLOS One
- Recognized as an outstanding reviewer at ICML, ACL, and EACL
- Presented tutorials at EMNLP, AACL, ALTA, and ICON
- Delivered a TEDx talk in 2018 on 'Detecting sarcasm, combating hate', intertwining his PhD thesis with personal journey
- Applies NLP to epidemic intelligence with EPIWATCH (Kirby Institute) and cybersecurity with IFCYBER (School of CSE)
- Co-authored an NLP textbook published by Wiley in 2023 with Pushpak Bhattacharyya
Research Experience
- Senior Lecturer at UNSW, leading multiple research projects
- Over five years of industry experience, working at companies like SEEK, Notiv, and Fractal, applying NLP to online employment marketplaces, meeting analytics, and epidemic intelligence
- Designed and introduced a new NLP course at UNSW
Education
- Joint PhD: IIT Bombay (India) and Monash University (Australia), 2018
- Advisor information not explicitly mentioned
Background
- Expert in natural language processing (NLP)
- Research interests include NLP, large language models, sentiment analysis, recommender systems, and social media analysis
- Senior Lecturer in the School of Computer Science & Engineering at UNSW, specializing in NLP
Miscellany
- Associate of the Human Rights Institute at UNSW
- Co-leads the Community of Practice for Inclusive Research, supporting queer, trans, and people with variations of sex characteristics
- Organizing chair for 'Rainbow AI': a workshop funded by Google's exploreCSR grant, aimed at supporting queer students in Australia interested in HDR and research careers in AI