Resume
Education
2021 - Present
MS by Research | IIIT-B
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I am a part of the IT and Society department at IIIT-B, and my research focus is Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).
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My coursework includes Qualitative Research Methods, HCI, Quantitative Research Methods, Digital Sociology.
2017 - 2021
Bachelor of Technology | GGSIPU
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I graduated with my engineering degree in Information Technology in 2017.
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I explored various research disciplines within technology such as machine learning and natural language processing and developed a curiosity towards its interdependence with society.
Work Experience
Jan 2020 - Nov 2020
Research Intern | MIDAS Lab - IIITD
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Researched and experimented with black box and white box adversarial attacks on problems in computational social science
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Worked on financial risk forecasting, leveraging multimodal analysis and affective computing
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Supervisor: Prof. Rajiv Ratn Shah
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As part of my work here, I got the opportunity to publish at top venues such as NAACL, EMNLP, and Interspeech on domains related to Natural Language Processing and Computational Social Science.
Aug 2020 - Oct 2020
Junior Machine Learning Engineer | Omdena
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Collaborated with 60 developers worldwide towards an initiative to protect children from online harassment
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Analyzed newspaper articles using techniques of Natural Language Processing (NLP) to understand severity and causes of online violence against children
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Work done in collaboration with Save the Children organization
Skills & Expertise
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Research Interests: Gender, Reproductive Health, Human-Computer Interaction, User Research
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Research Methods: Interviews, Surveys, Contextual Inquiries, Thematic Analysis
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Design Tools: Figma
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Programming Languages: Python, C++
Honors & Awards
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2020: Accepted into the , ACM India Winter School 2020
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2020: Received grant, to attend NeurIPS 2020 and EMNLP 2020, as a volunteer
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2020: Accepted into the, Google Research India’s AI Summer School
Volunteering & Mentoring
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PLIO: Volunteered at PLIO as part of the HCI and qualitative research team
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Google Code‐in: Served as a mentor for Tensorflow as part of Google Code‐in which aims to introduce Pre‐University students to open source
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Google Explore ML: Facilitated Machine Learning through teaching and mentoring a batch of 30 university students, as part of the Google Explore ML team, ADGITM, GGSIPU