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News and Updates
- May 2025: Featured in the official MBZUAI Blog on Tutors of Tomorrow. Checkout the Blog!
- May 2025: Serving as Session Chair for the Multilinguality and Language Diversity track at NAACL 2025.
- May 2025: Won the SAC Award for the Resource and Evaluation Track at NAACL 2025.
- Apr 2025: Position paper on AI Tutor Evaluation accepted at AIED 2025 (Blue Sky Track).
- Mar 2025: Co-organizing the BEA Shared Task 2025. Participate here: CodaBench
- Mar 2025: Delivered invited talks at the IEEE Student Branch, IIT Guwahati, and the CSE Department, IIT Hyderabad.
- Mar 2025: Released first AITutor-AssessmentKit. Try here: Demo
- Jan 2025: Paper on Unifying AI Tutor Evaluation accepted at NAACL 2025.
- Jan 2025: Serving as Session Chair for the NLP Applications track at COLING 2025.
- Nov 2024: Featured in Emirates News Agency for receiving the Google Academic Research Award (GARA) 2024.
- Oct 2024: Delivered an invited talk at the NLP Team, National Research Council, Canada.
- Oct 2024: Recipient of Google Academic Research Award (GARA) 2024 as Co-PI for project ‘2σ Intelligent Tutoring System (ITS)’.
- Oct 2024: Tutorial on LLMs in Education accepted at COLING 2025. Join us in Abu Dhabi!
- Jun 2024: Received the Annual Research Excellence Award 2024 for Department of CSE at IIT Hyderabad.
- Feb 2024: Successfully defended my PhD thesis at IIT Hyderabad — deeply grateful to my advisor, committee, and supporters.
- Jan 2024: Three papers accepted at SIGIR 2024, EACL 2024, and PAKDD 2024 — supported by Microsoft Academic Grant (MAPG) and Microsoft Translator Team.
- Jan 2024: Started as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at NLP Department, MBZUAI, Abu Dhabi, focusing on AI/LLM for Education.
- Oct 2023: Featured on podcast with Piya, discussing AI research and my PhD journey.
- Oct 2023: Two papers accepted at EMNLP 2023 — one in Findings (with Maharaj) and other one in The BigPicture Workshop.
- Sep 2023: Delivered an invited talk at the NLP Team, Google Research India.
- Jul 2023: Trie-NLG accepted at ECML-PKDD 2023, with Microsoft India, supported by Microsoft Academic Partnership Grant.
- May 2023: Our work on Diverse Headline Generation accepted in Findings of ACL 2023.
- Sep 2022: Received ₹100,000 grant under Exceptional Research Scholar category at IIT Hyderabad.
- Aug 2022: Started role as Technical Advisor at Lending Katalyst, an AI-NLP startup.
- Aug 2022: Began research internship with Microsoft India (R&D), Machine Translator Team.
- May 2022: Received Microsoft and ACL Travel Grants to present Meta-XNLG at ACL 2022, Dublin, Irland.
- Mar 2022: ACL papers ZmBART and Meta-XNLG highlighted by IKDD–ACM India as premier works from India.
- Feb 2022: Our work on Meta-XNLG accepted in Findings of ACL 2022.
- Jun 2021: Began research internship with Microsoft India (R&D), Auto-Suggest Team.
- May 2021: Our work on ZmBART accepted in Findings of ACL 2021.
- Mar 2021: Featured in KiraIITH Magazine for Best Poster Presentation at CSE Research Scholar Day 2021.
- Mar 2021: Received Suzuki Foundation Scholarship 2021 (second-year in a row), including a research visit to Shizuoka University, Japan.
- Jan 2021: Paper on Hostility Detection in Hindi earned Best Paper Honorable Mention at CONSTRAINT Workshop, AAAI 2021.
- Oct 2020: Won first place in the Photography Challenge 2020 (Humanity and Hope category) at IIT Hyderabad.
- Aug 2020: Awarded the ACM SIGIR and ACM India–IARCS Travel Grants to present research at CIKM 2020.
- Jul 2020: Our Distractor Generation paper accepted at CIKM 2020.
- May 2020: Began research internship with Nvidia AI Research Center, India, and Shizuoka University, Japan.
- Jan 2020: Received Suzuki Foundation Scholarship 2020, with research visit to Shizuoka University, Japan.
- Oct 2019: Selected as sole participant from IIT Hyderabad for the BBC & IITG Hackathon 2019; received a fully sponsored trip to Google India.
- Sep 2019: Secured second place at the University of Tokyo–IITH Workshop hosted at IIT Hyderabad.