September 2025: Selected for The OpEd Project Public Voices Fellowship for 2025-26 University of Illinois cohort; June 2025: Awarded the Adamic-Glance Distinguished Early Career Award at AAAI ICWSM-2025; December 2024: Attended IndoML 2024 in Goa, India; November 2024: Attended CSCW 2024 in San José, Costa Rica; August 2024: MHTI-2024 Scholar and attended the mHealth Training Institute 2024 in Los Angeles, California; June 2024: Attended HCIC 2024 in Delavan, Wisconsin, and gave a talk at SICSS Singapore; May 2024: Attended CHI 2024 in Honolulu, Hawaii; March 2024: Gave a talk at CLunch@UPenn and participated in a panel discussion on Digital Dialects: Large Language Models and Societal Linguistic Evolution at IIM Bangalore; December 2023: Attended FIRE 2023 in Goa, India, and was an invited speaker at IndoML 2023 in Mumbai, India; October 2023: Attended CSCW 2023 in Minneapolis, Minnesota; May 2023: Joined UIUC CS as an Assistant Professor, starting Fall 2023; March 2022: Awarded the Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award by the College of Computing, Georgia Tech.
Research Experience
Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research, Montréal, with the FATE group; currently leading the OnCARE lab at UIUC, focusing on using social media, online data, and multimodal sensing data to study human behavior and wellbeing.
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science from the School of Interactive Computing, College of Computing at Georgia Tech; B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Kharagpur.
Background
Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, leading the OnCARE (Online and Connected AI Reflections) lab with a focus on computational social science, social computing, human-centered machine learning, and FATE (Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics in AI).