Moderated a panel @ACL'23 with Cohere's Director Sara Hooker, Deepmind Fellow David Adelani, and UCLA PhD Elia Ovalle, on the importance of representation in large language models. [poster]

I WAS INVITED TO REVIEW A JOURNAL PAPER! (authors from Harvard, Dartmouth, USC 👀)

Started as a Data Science Intern at the media giant - Nielsen. Worked with the audio (radio, podcasts) team.

• • Two projects: predictive modeling of app user behaviour, and testing user behaviour on different app features.

Presented multiple posters [link] on the intersection of computational methods and social media at the SRNT conference.

Got selected for the Longhorn Impact Fellowship at Texas (LIFT) with Activision Blizzard as a Team Leader out of 100s of applications. [link]

Hit double digits on my paper citation count! [papers]  

• • More than half of these are from my personal mini research lab R106 [link]

Got selected as a chair for Widening NLP Workshop (!!!!)

Presented a poster on computer vision applications at the MD Anderson Research Summit

Got selected for the Longhorn Impact Fellowship at Texas (LIFT) with Coupa Software out of 100s of applications. [link]

Paper published to North American Association of Computational Linguistics (NAACL) Gender Bias in NLP Workshop [link]

Paper published to the Journal of Applied Soft Computing [link] (first journal paper!)

Working as a Graduate Research Assistant at the Computational Media Lab [link]

Started graduate school at the University of Texas at Austin [blog] Hook 'em!

Life changing year. No achievement matters.

Panel Moderator (another first!) at Asian ACL Queer in AI social [link]

Started doing Data Science and Consulting full time at Fractal Analytics (now unicorn startup)

Took (my first!) live webinar for Women in Data Science Mumbai [link]

Paper published to Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL) Widening NLP Workshop [link]

Internship at Fractal Analytics (now unicorn startup), AI@Scale Team (Jan-Jul)

Funded by Google to attend the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2020

Volunteer for WiML workshop at ICLR (virtual) [blog]

Delegate at Harvard US-India Initiative [certificate]

Paper published to IEEE TENCON '19 [link]

Funded by AnitaB.org and Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) to attend the Grace Hopper Celebration in India. 

Attended the Google Women TechMakers' Reception 2019.

Internship at Western Digital, Data Center Solutions Team (May-Jul)

Promoted to Senior Chairperson at ACM-W Manipal [website] 

Presented a poster at Manipal Research Colloquium

Winner at GirlScript Summer of Code [certificate]

Part-time Intern at GirlScript Foundation [website]

Organizer at Revels '18, managing the Operations of the fest

Teacher (volunteer) at Teach Code for Good, Manipal [certificate]

Promoted to Vice Chair at ACM-W  [website] and Treasurer at ACM Manipal

Promoted at the University's Satellite Team to Subsystem Head of Communication and Ground Control [website]

Volunteered at Revels '17 for handling the fest's social media

Joined ACM and ACM-W Manipal as a Core Committee Member

Joined Manipal Institute of Technology for a Bachelors in Computer Engineering

Got into the University's Satellite Team  [website] under the guidance of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)

Volunteered at TechTatva'16, Manipal's technical fest