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Educational Background

Degrees

  • Doctorate: Ph.D in Computer Science (ONGOING)
    • Time period: Jan 2020 - Present (5th year)
    • College: Dept. of CSE, Indraprastha Institute of Technology (IIIT) Delhi
    • CGPA: 8.73/10
    • Thesis Area: Hate Speech Detection and Diffusion on Social Platforms
    • Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Tanmoy Chakraborty, Dr. Vikram Goyal
  • Bachelors: B.tech in Computer Science
    • Time period: Aug 2012 - May 2016
    • College: Dept. of CSE, Faculty of Engineering & Technology, Jamia Millia Islamia
    • CGPA: 9.5/10 (Department Rank 4/75)
    • Thesis: Fuzzy Taxonomy Extraction on Big Data
    • Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Tanvir Ahmad, Dr. Rafeeq Ahmad
  • High School Diploma: Science Stream
    • Time period: Apr 2010 - Apr 2012
    • School: Frank Anthony Public School, New Delhi: ICSE Board 9.35/10

Summer Schools

Selected for the following ML schools

  • 2024: Google Research Week (Bangalore, IN)
  • 2023: Google Bindi Summit (Bangalore, IN), ACM India Academic Research and Careers for Students Symposium ACM-ARCS (Bhopal, IN)
  • 2022: Research Week with Google India (Remote), Eastern European Machine Learning Summer School (Remote), Online Asian Machine Learning School (Remote)
  • 2021: Eastern European Machine Learning Summer School (Remote)
  • 2019: Summer School On AI Assisted Data Analytics (New Delhi)

Certifications

  • 2015: Training in Analytics Using R, SAS, Python (New Delhi) Certificate
  • 2015: Python Training, Spoken Tutorial Project, IIT Bombay Certificate

Work Experience

Research

  • May 2023 - Aug 2023: Visiting Researcher, School of Social Science and Technology, TUM, Germany
  • Aug 2019 - Dec 2019: Research Associate, LCS2, IIIT Delhi, India
  • Mar 2019 - May 2019: Policy Research Intern, WERP India Pvt. Ltd., Remote

Engineering

  • Nov 2016 - Sep 2018: Data Science & Engineering, Red Hat, Bangalore, India
  • Jun 2016 - Oct 2016: Data Science Intern, Red Hat, Bangalore, India
  • Jun 2015 - Jul 2015: Summer Intern, DecisionStats, New Delhi, India
  • Sep 2014 - Feb 2015: OWASP-ZAP Intern, Mozilla Winter of Security, Remote

Pro Bono

  • Feb 2020 - Present: Reviewer, Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS), Remote
  • May 2016 - Present: Committee Member, Mentor, Volunteer, AnitaB.Org, Remote