Hello! I recently joined as a Visiting Assistant Professor at IIT Hyderabad in the Department of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Prior to this, I was a postdoc at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, where I dipped my toes in the vast and fascinating world of Computational Biology. I graduated with my PhD in Computer Science in June last year from Northwestern University, located on the scenic shores of Lake Michigan. At Northwestern, I was a part of the nurturing CS theory group and was very fortunate to have been advised by Prof. Konstantin Makarychev and Prof. Aravindan Vijayaraghavan. Additionally, my PhD journey was enriched by collaborating with researchers at Adobe Research during summer internships in 2021 and 2022.

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, I was a spirited undergrad at IIT Kanpur, where I spent four transformative years majoring in Computer Science and Engineering with a minor in Physics. My research interests span a diverse array of topics in the intersection of AI and Theoretical Computer Science, including Clustering, Graphical Models, Determinantal Point Processes, Submodular Function Maximization, and Causal Inference. I view myself as an interdisciplinary researcher, with several of the Machine Learning models I’ve worked on being directly inspired from Statistical Physics. Additionally, I have also dabbled in Computational Biology, particularly in using Deep Learning to identify structural variations in DNA sequences.