About
I am a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, advised by Brendan O'Connor. I'm a member of the SLANG Lab and the larger UMass NLP group. My research is in the area of computational social science and natural language processing. I am grateful to have been supported by an IBM PhD Fellowship Award 2023-2024.
Before starting my doctoral studies, I worked with India Machine Learning team at Amazon, and the Advanced Technology Lab at Samsung Research. I completed my ME from Indian Institute of Science, where I was advised by P.S. Sastry and Gurunath Gurrala.
Recent News
| March 2025 | New paper on narrative understanding accepted to WNU 2025! |
| March 2025 | Honored to have been selected to attend the Future World Changers of the Academy Conference 2025! |
| Feb 2025 | Our work on legal argument stance classification was accepted to CS&Law 2025 in the WIP track! I am also very grateful to have been selected to attend the workshop for junior scholars at CS&Law 2025 and to receive travel support to attend the conference. |
| Dec 2024 | I successfully defended my thesis proposal! |
| Dec 2024 | I gave a research talk at the UMass CSSI Seminar. [slides] |
| Aug 2024 | Our paper on analyzing Supreme Court oral arguments was accepted at the Journal of Law and Courts. |
| July 2024 | I presented our work at ACL 2024. [slides] |
| May 2024 | Our work on understanding argumentative public comments is accepted at ACL 2024. |
| April 2024 | Our work on analyzing public participation in rulemaking is accepted for a plenary talk at IC2S2 2024. |
| March 2024 | Our paper on temporal event annotations in narratives was accepted to LREC-COLING 2024. |
| Feb 2024 | Honored to have received 2023 IBM PhD Fellowship Award. Here's a profile from Manning CICS, UMass Amherst. |
| Dec 2023 | I passed portfolio (the equivalent of a PhD candidacy exam). |
| Dec 2023 | I presented our work on coreference annotations at CRAC, EMNLP 2023. [slides] |
| June 2023 | Started summer internship at IBM Watson in Yorktown Heights, New York |
| April 2023 | I am presenting a poster at NENLP 2023. |
| March 2023 | Our paper was mentioned on Strict Scrutiny, a podcast about the United States Supreme Court and the legal culture that surrounds it. |
| Jan 2023 | New paper on coreference annotation (ezCoref) to appear at EACL 2023. Check out our codebase here. |
| Nov 2022 | New paper on analyzing political rhetoric via epistemic stances to appear at NLP+CSS, EMNLP 2022. |
| Fall 2022 | I am co-organizing the Machine Learning and Friends Lunch at UMass Amherst with Wenlong Zhao and Dmitry Petrov. If you have speaker recommendations, fill them here! |
| May 2022 | Started summer internship at IBM Watson in Yorktown Heights, New York |
| Oct 2021 | Presented at TADA 2021 |
| July 2021 | Awarded Grace Hopper Celebration 2021 Student Scholarship |
| June 2021 | Awarded Anuradha and Hanuma Kodavalla Graduate Scholarship in Computer Science |
| May 2021 | Awarded W. Bruce Croft Graduate Scholarship in Computer Science |
| Jan 2021 | Started my Ph.D. in Computer Science at UMass Amherst |