I am a 1st year Computer Science PhD student at the Manning College of Information & Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst. I am advised by Prof. Negin Rahimi. My broad research interests are primarily in Information Retrieval (IR) and Natural Language Processing (NLP). Prior to this, I received a Dual Degree (Bachelors + Masters) in Mathematics and Computing from IIT Kharagpur, India where I worked on the paradigm of tool-augmentation for mathematical reasoning in LLMs, supervised by Prof. Somak Aditya.

My current research interests are focused on the effective utilization of retrieval-based systems and external structured knowledge to improve multiple reasoning dimensions in language models. My other interests revolve around the use of neuro-symbolic methods in NLP, and trying to make LLMs safer to use in social contexts.

Updates/News

(09/24) Started my PHD at UMass Amherst - advised by Prof. Negin Rahimi !

(06/24) Presented my main conference paper on "MATHSENSEI: A Tool-Augmented Large Language Model for Mathematical Reasoning" at NAACL 2024, Mexico City.

(12/23) Completed my internship at Rakuten Global Inc., Language and Speech Team, RIT India.

(06/23) Started working on Hate speech and Jailbreaks as part of Microsoft AFMR Program, advised by Prof Somak Aditya (IIT KGP) and Prof Monojit Choudhury (MBZUAI).

(12/22) Completed my research internship at Genome Quebec Innovation Centre, McGill University - supervised by Prof. Simon Gravel.

(05/21) Worked in the field of Genetic Algorihtms, supervised by Prof Nirupam Chakraborti.