Experience

Research Science Intern

Bloomberg LP · CTO Office

New York City, NY

Analyzed LLM-based autoresearch pipelines for efficient domain-knowledge injection and evaluation.

Research Science Intern

Amazon Science · Alexa AI

Bellevue, WA

Developed methods for improving conversational understanding through contextual integration, including a contrastive-learning and transformer-injection approach for user-intent identification.

Technical Account Manager

Microsoft Corporation

India

Led Azure Data and AI solution building, cloud adoption, digital transformation, and project orchestration for banking and finance customers. Co-built Shru, an intelligent ASL translator recognized with a Diversity & Inclusion achievement award.

Summer Intern

Microsoft Corporation

Bangalore, India

Built a serverless smart-city framework and a smart-traffic prototype with the Microsoft Technology Centre.

Graduate Rotational Intern

The Sparks Foundation

Singapore · Virtual

Worked as a full-stack developer on the organization’s Indian website.

Graduate Student Research Assistant

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Ann Arbor, MI

Conducting research in responsible NLP, multi-agent LLMs, and cross-cultural AI with Prof. Rada Mihalcea, with collaborations spanning social psychology, computational social science, and responsible AI.

Fall Research Assistant

Saarland University & DFKI

Saarbrücken, Germany

Studied translationese and spurious correlations in language-model classifiers with Prof. Josef van Genabith and Dr. Cristina España Bonet.

Summer Research Assistant

University of Texas at Austin

Austin, TX

Analyzed psychological, linguistic, and topical change in large-scale social-media conversations with Prof. James W. Pennebaker.

Graduate Researcher

Georgia Institute of Technology

Atlanta, GA

Developed weight-shared, elastic NLP models and knowledge-distillation methods with Prof. Alexey Tumanov.

Graduate Researcher

Georgia Institute of Technology

Atlanta, GA

Built and annotated a Reddit dataset to study narrative structure and coping in PTSD-related posts with Prof. Wei Xu and Prof. Rosa Arriaga.

Research Assistant

Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

Guwahati, India

Investigated word-embedding stability and its effects on downstream clustering and fairness evaluation, and contributed to multilingual visual question answering for Indian languages with Dr. Amit Awekar.

Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship

Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan

Tinker Research Grant ($5,000)

Thinking Machines Lab

Supporting research on curiosity in humans and language models.

Pangram Research Collaboration Grant ($5,000)

Pangram

Outstanding Paper Award

C3NLP at NAACL

Towards Region-aware Bias Evaluation Metrics

CSE Service Award

University of Michigan

Recognizing contributions to the CSE community.

Rackham Conference Travel Grant

Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan

Speaker Travel and Attendee Grant

PyCon US

Diversity & Inclusion Achievement Award

Microsoft

For developing Shru, an American Sign Language translator using Microsoft Azure services.