About Me

I am an incoming CS PhD student at the University of Southern California, where I would be working with Prof. Xiang Ren as a part of the NLP Group and INK Research Lab. Prior to this, I was an Analyst at Goldman Sachs, where I worked with the Regulatory Engineering team. Even before that, I graduated with a Bachelors in Computer Science from IIIT Delhi in December, 2020, where I completed my thesis as a part (and founding member) of the Laboratory for Computational Social Systems (LCS2).

In the past, I have spent some amazing time interning with the Computational Social Science Team at Snap Research, LA (Fall 2019), Goldman Sachs (Summer 2019) and IBM Research India (Spring 2018).

I have also had the good fortune to have worked with Prof. Tanmoy Chakraborty, Leonardo Neves, Neil Shah, Francesco Barbieri, Prof. Jainendra Shukla, Prof. Timothy Scott Moyers Jr., Sameep Mehta and Nishtha Madaan.

Apart from pursuing my academic interests, I am extremely passionate about upliftment of women (and other minorities) in technology. I co-lead the Delhi chapter of Women Who Code Delhi, which is an organisation that works towards diversity and inclusion of women in tech. I am a huge advocate of diversity in CS Research, and always looking for opportunities to support them! I am also an ardent musician and absolutely love singing and composing music. I’ve tried my hands at 3 instruments (and I plan to master some, explore more). Check out my SoundCloud profile for some late night amateur pieces!

• Jul 2021: Selected to volunteer at ACL 2021!
• Apr 2021: Grad app season over! I will be joining USC as a Ph.D. student this Fall!
• Dec 2020: Started working as an Analyst at Goldman Sachs.
• Oct 2020: Paper with Leonardo Neves, Neil Shah and Francesco Barbieri accepted at COLING 2020!! This is a result of my internship and collaboration with Snap Research.
• Sep 2020: Paper with Chirag, Amogh and Dr. Jainendra from HMI Lab accepted at ICMI 2020!
• Sep 2020: Paper with Shravika and Aditya accepted at the NLP4MuSA workshop at ISMIR 2020!
• Feb 2020: Attended AAAI 2020 in NYC, to present my poster!
• Jan 2020: Paper accepted at ACM TIST
• Dec 2019: Selected to attend the AAAI Undergraduate Consortium (Acceptance Rate - 16%). Super excited to attend AAAI in New York next year!
• Sept 2019: Started my Internship at Snap Research in Los Angeles, CA. I will be working on research problems in NLP, mentored by Leonardo Neves and Neil Shah
• Aug 2019: Included in the Dean’s List of Academic Excellence for AY 2018-2019
• June 2019: Awarded the Best Poster Award at Research AI Day held by IIM Bangalore and IBM Research
• May 2019: Starting my Internship as a Summer Analyst at Goldman Sachs, Bangalore
• Feb 2019: Awarded the Snap Research Scholarship, 2019. Super stoked to be the only scholar from India!
• Feb 2019: Attended my first academic conference, WSDM 2019 at Melbourne, Australia. My work was accepted as an oral presentation and a poster!