Experience

Research Intern
May 2021 - Aug 2021

  • Worked on document understanding to come up with a novel method to enable non-linear consumption of documents.
  • Used React to build an end-to-end demo that leveraged question-answering and topic-modelling to provide personalised consumption of an input financial report.
  • Work accepted at NAACL'22, and patent filed with USPTO.
  • Honors Research Assistant
    May 2022 - May 2020

    Worked with Dr Ponnurangam Kumaraguru on the following:
  • Designed and implemented a feature extraction pipeline that leveraged hyperbolic manifolds to capture potentialy insiduous interaction patterns on Twitter. Work accepted at WI-IAT 2021.
  • Characterized and classified suspended vs normal accounts on Twitter, and a special third class of users who had their suspensions reversed. Work accepted at WI-IAT 2021.
  • Identified inequities against the rural population in India's COVID-19 vaccination drive. Preliminary report out, WIP.
  • Independent Study
    December 2021 - December 2020

    Worked with Dr. K Madhava Krishna to develop a synthetic data generation pipeline with domain randomisation for simulation-to-real transfer for multi-layered scene layout estimation in warehouse settings. Paper accepted at ICVGIP'21.

    Teaching Assistant

    Teaching assistant for the courses:
  • Computational Social Science: Spring 2022
  • Online Privacy: Monsoon 2021
  • Operating Systems and Networks: Monsoon 2020
  • Responsible for conducting, setting and correcting various tutorials, assignments and quizzes.

    Open Source Contributor
    June 2020 - July 2020

    Worked with the organization CodeZoned based in IIT-Jodhpur over a two-month period to write the code for the AdaBoost multi-class classification machine learning algorithm. Implementation included writing code for the GPU in CUDA C.