I am a 3rd year Computer Science PhD student at the Manning College of Information & Computer Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, and a member of the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (CIIR). I am advised by Prof. Negin Rahimi. My broad research interests are 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 tool-augmentation for mathematical reasoning in LLMs, supervised by Prof. Somak Aditya.
My research focuses on building retrievers that reason about relevance rather than matching surface similarity. I am currently working on: (1) scaling test-time thinking for reasoning-intensive retrieval, (2) reinforcement learning approaches to train retrievers optimized under embedding objectives and retrieval rewards, and (3) memory-augmented systems that retrieve and continually learn from past experiences.