I am an Associate Professor in the Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi), India since September 2022. I am also an associate faculty of the Yardi School of Artificial Intelligence, IIT Delhi. I am an ACM Distinguished Speaker (2023-2025). I was a Ramanujan Fellow from 2018-2023. Before joining IIT Delhi, I served as an Assistant Professor (May 2017 - Dec 2021) and an Associate Professor (Jan 2022 - Aug 2022) in the Dept of CSE, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi (IIIT Delhi), India. I also served as the head of the Infosys Centre for AI (CAI) at IIIT Delhi before joining IIT Delhi. I obtained my PhD as a Google PhD scholar from the Dept. of CSE, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India in September, 2015. Following this, I joined University of Maryland, College Park as a Postdoctoral Researcher.
My broad research interests include Natural Language Processing, Graph Neural Networks, and Social Computing.
I established and lead the Laboratory for Computational Social Systems (LCS2) research group.