(Last Updated: June 19, 2026)
I am a fourth year CS Ph.D. student at Columbia University, working at the intersection of NLP and Education. My research interests include automatic hint generation and intelligent tutoring systems, human-centered design and evaluation, and personalized text generation. I'm fortunate to be advised by Smaranda Muresan.
In summer 2026, I am interning as an Applied Science intern at the Microsoft Copilot Studio team, working on skill benchmarking with Samarth Gupta and Deepak Sharma. In summer 2024, I have worked as an intern at Microsoft Research where I worked on style-personalized document generation for Word Copilot with Sujay Jauhar, Bahar Sarrafzadeh, Adrian de Wynter and Silviu Cucerzan. Before my PhD, I was working at Google Research India as a pre-doctoral researcher in the Advertising Sciences team with Aravindan Raghuveer and Preksha Nema on text style transfer for creative ad generation. I received my undergraduate degree from IIT Patna.
Recent News:
- 19 Jun 2026 - Our work "Human-centered artificial intelligence framework for overdose mortality surveillance" got accepted at AJPH!
- 26 May 2026 - Started my internship at Microsoft, Redmond! Working on Microsoft Copilot Studio and skill evaluation for agentic frameworks.
- 29 Apr 2026 - Our style-personalized text evaluation paper got accepted to GEM'26 (non-archival)! I will be at San Diego for ACL - hit me up if you are attending!
- 24 Oct 2025 - Pre-print for our work on scientific hint generation is out! Paper link
- 14 Oct 2025 - Pre-print for our work on style-personalized text generation is out! Paper link
- 20 Jul 2025 - Attending ACL 2025 from Jul 27-Aug1. Hit me up if you are attending!
- 20 Oct 2024 - Attending EMNLP 2024 from Nov 11-15. Hit me up if you are attending!
- 03 Oct 2024 - Attending COLM 2024. Hit me up if you are attending!
- 08 Apr 2024 - Pre-print for our survey paper on Hint Generation is out. Check it out!
- 27 Mar 2024 - A co-authored paper TrivialHG is accepted in SIGIR'2024.
- 20 Feb 2024 - Accepted the internship offer from Microsoft Research (Redmond Office) for Summer 2024. Hit me up if you are around May-August in Greater Seattle Area!
- 08 Oct 2023 - Finally launched the CARE program. Check out the details on this tweet!
- 01 Sep 2023 - Joined Columbia University as a PhD student!
- 13 Jul 2023 - Journal Paper "A Survey on Multi-modal Summarization" got accepted in ACM Computing Surveys.
- 18 Jun 2023 - Conference Paper "Can Multimodal Pointer Generator Transformers Produce Topically Relevant Summaries?" got accepted in 2023 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN).
- Attending EACL 2023 in person. Hit me up if you are around!
- 02 May 2023 - Conference Paper "Large Scale Multi-Lingual Multi-Modal Summarization Dataset" got accepted in EACL 2023.
- Attending EMNLP 2022 in person. Hit me up if you are around!
- 06 Oct 2022 - Conference Paper "T-STAR: Truthful Style Transfer using AMR Graph as Intermediate Representation" got accepted in The 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing.
- 21 Sep 2022 - Conference Paper "Topic-aware Multimodal Summarization" got Accepted in The 2nd Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 12th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing.
- 29 Jun 2022 - Conference Paper "Combining Vision and Language Representations for Patch-based Identification of Lexico-Semantic Relations" got accepted in 30th ACM International Conference on Multimedia.
- 19 Apr 2022 - Preprint of our survey "A Survey on Multi-hop Question Answering and Generation" is out on ArXiV now (Paper Link.).
- 04 Apr 2022 - Conference Paper "MAKED: Multi-lingual Automatic Keyword Extraction Dataset" got accepted in 13th Edition of its Language Resources and Evaluation Conference..
- 19 Nov 2021 - Conference Paper "WIDAR - Weighted Input Document Augmented ROUGE" got accepted in 44th European Conference on Information Retrieval ECIR 2022.
- 24 Jul 2021 - Journal Paper "Identifying Complaints based on Semi-Supervised Mincuts" got accepted in Elsvier's Expert Systems With Applications 2021.
- 19 Jul 2021 - Joined Google Research India as a Pre-doctoral Researcher in the Advertising Sciences team.
- 17 Jun 2021 - Joined IBM as a Global Research Mentee under the guidance of Ganesan Narayanasamy.
- 01 Jun 2021 - Joined University of Innsbruck as a part-time Teaching Assistant for the course 2021S703836 VU (Natural Language Processing) under the supervision of Prof. Adam Jatowt.
- 14 Apr 2021 - Conference paper (full) "Multi-Modal Supplementary-Complementary Summarization using Multi-Objective Optimization" got accepted in 44rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval.
- 12 Jan 2020 - Conference paper "Semantic Extractor-Paraphraser based Abstractive Summarization" got accepted at 17th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON) 2020.
- 26 Dec 2020 - Invited to give a talk at
PyData Patna Conference hosted byIIT Patna & IEEE . - 08 May 2020 - Received acceptance to participate in the AI Summer School hosted by Google Research India.
- 23 Apr 2020 - Conference paper (short) "Multi-Modal Summary Generation using Multi-objective Optimization" got accepted in 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval.
- 12 Sep 2019 - Conference paper (short) "Text-Image-Video Summary Generation using Joint Integer Linear Programming" got accepted in 42nd European Conference on Information Retrieval ECIR 2020.
- 10 Dec 2018 - Journal Paper "Extractive single document summarization using multi-objective optimization..." got Accepted in Elsvier's Knowledge-Based Systems. 2018.