Experience

  1. Research Assistant

    Stony Brook University

  2. Visiting Researcher

    Lund University

  3. Data and Applied Science Intern

    Microsoft

  4. Research Intern

    AT&T Labs

  5. Senior Analyst

    Deutsche Bank Operations International (DBOI)
    Maintaining web apps and legacy apps that process large-scale profit/loss transactions.

  6. Google Summer of Code (GSoC) Intern

    CGAL
    Implementing an algorithm for Smooth Reconstruction from Point clouds, advised by Dr. Pierre Alliez at Inria Sophia Antipolis. France.

  7. Research Intern

    Inria Sophia Antipolis
    Research on Smooth Reconstruction from Point clouds, advised by Dr. Pierre Alliez at Inria Sophia Antipolis.

  8. Google Summer of Code (GSoC) Intern

    CGAL
    Hexahedral Mesh Generation, advised by Dr. Guillaume Damiand at University of Lyon, France.

Education

  1. PhD in Computer Science

    Stony Brook
    Thesis on Modeling Individual Cognitive Patterns and Mental Health from Language. Supervised by Prof H. Andrew Schwartz.
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  2. MSc (Hons.) Physics

    Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) Pilani
    GPA: 8.6/10

  3. BE (Hons.) Computer Science

    Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) Pilani
    GPA: 8.6/10
Awards
Outstanding Paper Award at Detecting AI-Generated Content Workshop @ COLING 2025
International Conference for Computational Linguistics ∙ January 2025
Our work “Consistent Lack of Variance in Psychological Factors Expressed by Spambots and LLMs” was selected as an Outstanding Paper at the GenAIContent workshop at COLING 2025 held in Abu Dhabi.
Outstanding Paper Award at ACL 2023
Association of Computational Linguistics ∙ July 2023
Our work “Transfer and Active Learning for Dissonance Detection: Addressing the Rare-class Challenge” was selected as an Outstanding paper at the ACL 2023 held in Toronto.
DARPA Riser
Defense Research Advanced Projects Agency (DARPA) ∙ September 2022
I was selected as the DARPA Riser for my work “Detecting Dissonant Stance in Social Media: The Role of Topic Exposure”
BITS IPCD Travel Grant
Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani (BITS-Pilani) ∙ May 2018
Awarded travel to Inria Sophia Antipolis, France in 2018 for undergraduate thesis.
INSPIRE Scholarship for Higher Education
Department of Science and Technology, Government of India ∙ July 2013
Selected by the Government of India for a tuition scholarship for all the years of undergraduate studies based on merit.
National Talent Search Examination (NTSE) Scholarship
National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) ∙ Present
Recipient of the highly selective National Talent Search scholarship in India
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Tamil
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Hindi