March 2024, organizing tutorial on 'Rating AI Trustworthiness' at ACM International Conference on AI in Finance 2024; March 2024, invited talk on 'Mathematics and AI in the Financial Industry' at Punjab Engineering College, India; February 2024, organizing first workshop on 'AI in Finance for Social Impact' at AAAI 2024; November 2023, organizing 'Women in AI and Finance' workshop at ACM International Conference on AI in Finance 2023; April 2021, received the 2021 UIUC ISE Sharp Outstanding Graduate Student Award; December 2020, paper accepted at IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering (TBME) journal; August 2020, named William A. Chittenden II Graduate Fellow for academic year 2020-2021; October 2019, received Kanako Miura Award by the IEEE RAS Technical Committee on Humanoid Robotics; August 2019, named William A. Chittenden II Graduate Fellow for academic year 2019-2020; August 2018, awarded William A. Chittenden II Graduate Fellowship for academic year 2018-2019; March 2018, received Illinois Geometry Lab Research Award; December 2017, selected as 1st runner up for Mottier Innovation Challenge in Systems Engineering Award; March 2015, awarded Charpak Research Intern Scholarship for summer of 2015; December 2012, won Legacy of Srinivasa Ramanujan Coding Competition (Awarded at the International conference on Legacy of Srinivasa Ramanujan, 2012).
Research Experience
VISA Research, Summer 2019 internship, mentors: Carolina Barcenas, Chiranjeet Chetia, Shubham Agrawal; 3M Electronics, Software & AI Research, Summer 2018 internship, mentors: David Redinger, Brian J. Stankiewicz; Quantitative Research, Quantlab Financial LLC, Summer 2017 internship, mentors: Areez Mody, Matteo Nicoli; SAMM, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Summer 2015 internship, mentor: Julien Randon Furling; Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), India, Summer 2014 internship, mentor: Mythily Ramaswamy; National Program on Differential Equations - Theory, Computation and Applications, NIT Calicut, India, Winter 2013, mentors: Satyananda Panda, T. Suman Kumar.
Education
PhD: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), Department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering, since 2018, advisor: Richard Sowers; MS: Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, Mathematics, advisor: Aparna Mehra; BS: University of Delhi, Mathematics with Honors.
Background
Research interests: Intersection of Computer Vision, Deep Learning, and Healthcare. Currently a PhD student in the Department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering at UIUC, advised by Richard Sowers.
Miscellany
Personal interests include applications of quantitative finance and artificial intelligence.