Pre-doctoral Research Fellow at Microsoft Research India, working with Dr. Sunayana Sitaram, Dr. Monojit Choudhury, and Dr. Navin Goyal; Teaching Assistant for the Natural Language Processing class at Plaksha University for their Tech Leaders Fellowship (TLF) program in 2022 and 2023.
Education
PhD: Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science, University of Washington, advised by Prof. Yulia Tsvetkov; B.E (hons.): Chemical Engineering, BITS Pilani, India.
Background
Research Interests: Natural Language Processing (NLP), mainly towards understanding and improving the capabilities of language models. Specific areas include Narrative Understanding and Reasoning, Science of Language Models, and Multilingual NLP.
Miscellany
Will be joining Google DeepMind as a Student Researcher for the summer of 2025; Passed the PhD qualifying exam; Presenting TACL paper on hierarchical generalization at NAACL 2025; Conducted a tutorial on Multilingual LLMs at ACL 2023.