Miscellaneous

Research Internships

Microsoft India, Machine Translation Team

Research Intern, August 2022 - December 2022 [ 5 Months ]

Topic: Machine Translation for Extremely Low Resource Languages/Dialects

Microsoft India, Auto-suggest Team

Research Intern, June 2021 - July 2021 [ 2 Months ]

Topic: Trie Context Augmentation to improve Auto-suggestions for Bing Search Engine

Nvidia AI Research Center India

Research Intern, May 2020 - Jan 2021 [ 9 Months ]

Topic: Towards Unsupervised Cross-lingual Transfer and Generation for Indian Languages

Experience

Data Scientist at NTwist, India

AI Startup, July 2017 - March 2018 [9 Months]

  1. Optimization and automation of Gas-plant production by modeling with Deep Reinforcement Learning and Deep Neural Networks.
  2. Attributes Correlation study in higher dimension.

Research Collaborations

Microsoft India, Auto-suggest Team

Collaborator Under Microsoft Academic Grant (MAPG), July 2022 - June 2023 [ 1 Year ]

Topic: Multilingual and Non-toxic Auto-suggestion Generations for Bing Search Engine

Microsoft India, Auto-suggest Team

Collaborator Under Microsoft Academic Grant (MAPG), July 2021 - June 2021 [ 1 Year ]

Topic: Trie Context Augmentation to improve Auto-suggestions for Bing Search Engine

Technical Advisor

Technical Advisor at Lending Katalyst, India

AI-NLP Startup in Legal Domain, February 2022- June 2023

  1. Provide AI/NLP-oriented solutions for real-world use cases in the legal domain
  2. The problems are interdisciplinary in nature, involving NLP, multilingual, legal domain, and linguistic

Guest Talks

[April 2022] Guest Task at SCIS, University of Hyderabad, India
Topic: Introduction to Deep-Learning through lenses of Natural Language Processing
[December 2021] Guest Talk at SVECW college, Bhimavaram, AP, India
Topic: Introduction to Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing [100+ participants]
[May 2021] Guest Talk at ASIC, NLP Reading and Discussion Groups
Topic: ZmBART: An Unsupervised Cross-lingual Transfer Framework for Language Generation
[December 2020] Guest Talk at Faculty Development Program on Data Science
Topic: Introduction to RNN - Data Processing and Text Classification
[November 2020] Guest Talk at ACM IIT Hyderabad Student Chapter
Topic: Learning to Distract: Generation of incorrect options from Reading Comprehension MCQ

Research Services

  1. Reviewer: ACL [2021-23], EMNLP [2021-22], ICLR [2021-22], AAAI [2021-22], ARR [2022-23], SIGTYPE [2021] and MLR [2021]
  2. Student Volunteer: ACL [2020, 21, 22(in-person)], EMNLP [2020, 21, 22(head)], ICML [2020-21], ICLR [2020-21], NeuralPS [2020-21], NAACL [2021-22], CIKM [2020] and ACML [2022(lead)]
  3. Attended ACL [2020, 21, 22(in-person)], EMNLP [2020-22], NAACL [2021-22], ICLR [2020-21], ICML [2020-21], CIKM [2020-2021], NeuralPS [2020-21], ACML [2022 (In-person)] and CoDS-COMAD [2020(in-person), 21, 22, 23]
  4. Hybrid infrastructure (Airmeet) head for the ACML conference 2022
  5. Participated in Google India Hackathon at the Hyderabad office in Oct-2018
  6. Organizer of a one-day workshop on Sara Translator and Recent Trends in NLP in October 2016

Selected Academic Honors And Awards

  1. Received a grant of 100K INR for attending the conference by IIT Hyderabad in Exceptional Research Scholar category
  2. Shared task best paper honorable mention for our CONSTRAINT workshop of AAAI 2021 paper
  3. Microsoft and ACL Travel Grant: Received travel grants to present our Meta-XNLG work in ACL 2022 in Dublin, Ireland
  4. Our ZmBART and Meta-XNLG papers are recognized as the premier papers from India by IKDD-ACM India. [Link]
  5. Received Student Travel Grant to attend CODS-COMAD 2022 and 2023
  6. Received fully-funded summer school offers from Oxford University ML Summer School 2021, 2022 and 2023
  7. ACM SIGIR and ACM India-IARCS Grant 2020: Received to present our CIKM 2020 work
  8. Suzuki Foundation Fellowship 2020 & 2021: Fully funded visit to Shizuoka University, Japan, for a short research stay
  9. BBC & IITG Hackathon: Received a fully paid trip for a Hackathon in Google office Gurugram, India by BBC India and IITG
  10. The University of Tokyo and IITH workshop 2018: Secured 2nd place in the workshop (shared task) at IIT Hyderabad
  11. 2014, 2015, and 2016 GATE qualified with 95+ percentile
  12. In high school, secured 2nd place in Ballia district, Utter Pradesh, India
  13. Winning caption of National Cadet Corps (NCC) in 8th grade.

Teaching Assistantship and Mentorship

  1. Took lectures/hands-on sessions in the NLP/IR Course at IITH during 2020-2023
  2. TA at IITH: NLP&IR (Spring’23, 45+ students), Information Retrieval (Fall’21, 25+ students), NLP (Spring’21, 110+ students), IR(Fall’20, 60+ students), NLP (Spring’’20, 45+ students), IR (Fall’19, 30+ students) and Algorithm (Spring’19, 120+ students)
  3. TA at UoH: NLP (Fall’16, 20+ students) and Optimization Technique (Spring’17, 55+ students)
  4. Project Mentor at IITH: NLP&IR (Spring’23, mentored 4 groups), IR (Fall’21, mentored 7 groups), IR (Fall’20, mentored 8 groups), NLP (Summar’20, mentored 4 groups), and NLP (Winter’19, mentored 2 Groups)