Hi! I am a third-year PhD student in the GLAMOR Lab at University of Southern California, where I am working with Prof. Jesse Thomason on language grounding in perception and user-centric approaches to building reliable AI systems.

I have previously completed research internships at AI2 Mosaic and Microsoft Research, and before my PhD I briefly worked as an NLP Research Scientist at AI Foundation. I completed my Masters from the Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, where I had the pleasure of working with Prof. Yonatan Bisk, Prof. Louis-Philippe Morency and Prof. Florian Metze. Prior to CMU, I graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, majoring in Mechanical Engineering, with a Minor degree in Computer Science.

News

• Aug 2024: Honored to have been selected as an Amazon ML Fellow by the USC-Amazon Center on Secure and Trusted Machine Learning!
• July 2024: New pre-print on reliable preference evaluation
• May 2024: Our work on selective prediction for VLMs was accepted to ACL Findings 2024!
• May 2023: One paper accepted to Interspeech 2023!
• May 2023: One paper accepted to CoLLAs 2023!
• May 2023: Started my summer internship at AI2 Mosaic!
• May 2023: Incredibly grateful to have received the Viterbi Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award!
• April 2023: Curriculum Learning for Data-Efficient Vision-Language Alignment will be presented at the O-DRUM workshop at CVPR 2023!
• Feb 2023: I will be doing a research internship at AI2 Mosaic this summer!
• Oct 2022: Gave invited talks on CLiMB at the Montréal Institute of Learning Algorithms and the ContinualAI Seminar - slides and video.
• Sept 2022: CLiMB 🧗‍♂️ was accepted to the NeurIPS 2022 Datasets and Benchmarks Track! See you in New Orleans ⚜️🎷!
• Aug 2022: New pre-print! in Curriculum Learning for Data-Efficient Vision-Language Alignment, we align pre-trained image and text encoders to get comparable retrieval performance to CLIP, with < 1% of the data!
• June 2022: Pre-print alert! We introduce CLiMB 🧗‍♂️, a new continual learning benchmark for vision-and-language tasks.
• May 2022: Our paper Worst of Both Worlds: Biases Compound in Pre-trained Vision-and-Language Models got accept to the Gender Bias in NLP workshop at NAACL 2022!
• Aug 2021: Moved to LA and started my PhD at USC - excited to spend the next few years at the GLAMOR Lab! ✨
• April 2021: New pre-print alert!
• March 2021: I will be joining University of Southern California for my PhD, working on language grounding with Jesse Thomason!
• Oct 2020: Two papers accepted to the Workshop on NLP Beyond Text at EMNLP 2020 :)
• Sept 2020: Our paper on Fine-Grained Grounding for Multimodal Speech Recognition has been accepted to Findings of EMNLP 2020!
• July 2020: I will be joining AI Foundation as a Research Scientist in September, working on dialog :)
• Jan 2020: Our paper on multimodal ASR, Looking Enhances Listening (LEL), has been accepted to ICASSP 2020! See you in Barcelona :) on zoom :(
• Oct 2019: Our paper got accepted to IWSLT 2019!
• Sept 2019: Our work on Structured Fusion Networks for Dialog was awarded the Best Paper Award at SIGDIAL 2019!