Hello! I am currently a Principal Project Scientist at IIT Madras in the Centre for Responsible AI (CeRAI), Wadhwani School of Data Science and AI (WSAI). Prior to this, I was a Visiting Assistant Professor at IIT Hyderabad in the Department of Artificial Intelligence. Before I moved back to India last year, I was a postdoc at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, where I dipped my toes in the vast and fascinating world of Computational Biology. I graduated with my PhD in Computer Science from Northwestern University, located on the scenic shores of Lake Michigan. At Northwestern, I was a part of the nurturing CS theory group and was very fortunate to have been advised by Prof. Konstantin Makarychev and Prof. Aravindan Vijayaraghavan. Additionally, my PhD journey was enriched by collaborating with researchers at Adobe Research.

A long time ago, I was a spirited undergrad at IIT Kanpur, where I spent four transformative years majoring in Computer Science and Engineering with a minor in Physics. My research interests span a diverse array of topics broadly in AI and Theoretical Computer Science, including Clustering, Graphical Models, Determinantal Point Processes, Submodular Function Maximization, and Dataset Distillation. I have also dabbled in Computational Biology, particularly in using Deep Learning to identify structural variations in DNA sequences.