About

Hi! I am a Predoctoral Research Fellow at Microsoft Research (MSR), where I am working with Dr. Amit Sharma and Dr. Emre Kiciman. My research focuses on causal representation learning for Out-of-Distribution generalization. I am broadly interested in developing machine learning systems that are robust to data distribution shifts in real-world deployments.

I graduated from BITS Pilani, Pilani with a Bachelor’s in Computer Science in 2021. I was fortunate to pursue my undergraduate thesis at the MultiComp Lab in the Language Technologies Institute of Carnegie Mellon University, supervised by Prof. Louis-Philippe Morency and mentored by Paul Pu Liang and Yiding Jiang. My thesis was focused on multimodal reinforcement learning, specifically exploring how language grounding can assist in capturing affordance of objects and accelerate learning of autonomous agents.

Prior to MSR, I was a research intern at Adobe’s Media and Data Science Research (MDSR) lab, working on knowledge enhancement of language models to make robust factual and commonsense reasoning-aware predictions. I have also had the good fortune of working with Prof. Dr. Chris Biemann at Language Technology Lab, Universität Hamburg on semantic parsing for knowledge graph question answering. In the past, I have interned as a software engineer at Microsoft and worked on computer vision problems at MapmyIndia.

Way back, I was obsessed with being an astronaut (maybe someday?) and my fascination with space led me to joining Team Anant, a group of passionate undergraduate students building BITS Pilani’s first nanosatellite, where I had a great time designing control algorithms and brainstorming with some amazing people. I love running, playing basketball, and am trying to find time to revisit my passion to write.