Hi there! I’m a Ph.D. student and Annenberg Fellow at the University of Southern California, advised by Prof. Jonathan May and Prof. Jesse Thomason. My research focuses on self-improvement in language model-based systems, with an emphasis on self-guided knowledge acquisition and grounding in complex, multimodal environments. Concretely, this includes work in Synthetic Data Generation, Retrieval Augmented Generation, Curiosity-Based Exploration and Embodied or Robotic Language Model Agents. I mostly frequent NLP and ML conferences, with published work at venues such as NeurIPS, ACL and EMNLP.

While obtaining a Master’s in Machine Learning at Carnegie Mellon University, I worked on distribution shift with Prof. Zachary Lipton, robustness and grounding in LLMs for science with Prof. Barnabas Poczos and just deployment of AI systems with Prof. Rayid Ghani. My undergraduate education was at the University of Toronto, where I was advised by Prof. Animesh Garg and Prof. Vijay Ganesh.

Outside the lab, I enjoy cooking, dancing salsa and writing my novel. I did a fair amount of Parliamentary Debating at the school and undergraduate level, and I’ve helped coach the Indian National Debate team several times.

Contact

I’m always happy to speak about potential collaborations and research topics. Feel free to reach out via email.