News and Updates

  • Jun 2026: Joined IIT Delhi Abu Dhabi (IITDAD) as an Assistant Professor in CSE & AI.
  • May 2026: Two papers accepted: one at the CBT Workshop at ICML 2026 and one at the BEA Workshop at ACL 2026.
  • Apr 2026: Serving as Graduate Forum Co-chair for IndoML 2026.
  • Mar 2026: Serving as Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) Co-chair for EACL 2027.
  • Mar 2026: AITutor-EvalKit was presented at EACL 2026, Morocco. Check out the demo platform.
  • Feb 2026: AITutor-EvalKit demo paper accepted in the EACL 2026 Demo Track.
  • Jan 2026: Joined the RiTUAL Lab at MBZUAI as a Research Scientist with Prof. Thamar Solorio.
  • Dec 2025: Presented the Datathon findings at IndoML 2025.
  • Dec 2025: New preprint for the AITutor-EvalKit demo paper is available. Read the paper.
  • Dec 2025: Attended the AI4GS event at MBZUAI.
  • Nov 2025: Presented our paper at EMNLP 2025 in-person, China.
  • Sep 2025: Served as Area Chair (AC) for the ARR June 2025 cycle.
  • Sep 2025: Gave an invited talk at IITD-Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UAE, titled Democratizing NLP Advances for Social Good: Evaluation, Inclusion, and Safety.
  • Aug 2025: A paper titled LLMs cannot spot math errors, even when allowed to peek into the solution, accepted at EMNLP 2025 (Main Conference).
  • Aug 2025: Presented multiple papers at ACL 2025.
  • Aug 2025: Served as Session Chair for the Generation, Summarization & QA track at ACL 2025.
  • Jul 2025: Presented our position paper on AI Tutor Evaluation at AIED 2025, Sicily, Italy.
  • Jun 2025: Gave a talk on The Mind Behind ChatGPT: The Magic, the Mechanics, and the Myth at the Department of CSE, TUNI.
  • May 2025: SelectLLM paper accepted in Findings of ACL 2025.
  • May 2025: Serving as datathon Co-chair at IndoML 2025.
  • May 2025: Featured in the official MBZUAI Blog on Tutors of Tomorrow. Check out 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.
  • 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 the other 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, Ireland.
  • 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.