I'm a third-year PhD student at Stony Brook. Currently, I am exploring problems in natural language understanding; particularly, reasoning in stories. I collaborate with Nate Chambers and Ray Mooney on this line of work. I am also working on analysing energy efficiency of NLP models, also collaborating with Aruna Balasubramanian.

Previously, I have dabbled with problems in machine translation, clickbait detection and word sense disambiguation.

I graduated with a Master's degree in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University in May 2020. I was primarily advised by Philipp Koehn and worked on a variety of problems across natural language processing.

Over the years, I have been involved in several notable side projects. I worked on a chat platform - Ping - that allowed users to communicate with each other regardless of language. I was involved in efforts to build a service - hello friend - that allowed people without internet access to avail various crucial facilities. In a past life, I was an iOS developer for several small-scale applications.

Long paper accepted to EMNLP, 2022. I'll be attending in-person. See you in Abu Dhabi!

I am spending the summer working on question decomposition for multi-hop question answering at Salesforce Research with Semih Yavuz and Yingbo Zhou.

Presenting work on using commonsense knowledge to answer why questions in stories at WNU 2022. See you in Seattle!

Demo paper accepted to EMNLP, 2021. I'll be attending in-person. See you in Punta Cana!

Two papers accepted at ACL, 2021 --- one in main conference, one in Findings

• Using Commonsense Knowledge to Answer Why-Questions
  In Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2022 [Paper] [BibTex] [Code]
• IrEne-viz: Visualizing Energy Consumption of Transformer Models
  In Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations, EMNLP 2021 [Paper] [BibTex] [Poster] [Demo]
• IrEne: Interpretable Energy Prediction for Transformers
  In Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2021 [Online] [Paper] [BibTex]
[Code]
• TellMeWhy: A Dataset for Answering Why-Questions in Narratives
  In Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2021 [Online] [Paper] [BibTex] [Poster] [Slides]
[Code]
• Temporal Reasoning in Natural Language Inference
  In Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics, EMNLP 2020 [Online] [Paper] [BibTex]
• Sentence-Level Adaptation for Low-Resource Neural Machine Translation
  In Proceedings of the AMTA 2019 Workshop on Technologies for MT of Low Resource Languages (LoResMT) 2019 [Online] [Paper] [BibTex]
• De-Mixing Sentiment from Code-Mixed Text
  In Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of Association for Computational Linguistics - Student Research Workshop (ACL-SRW) 2019 [Online] [Paper] [BibTex]
• Johns Hopkins University Submission for WMT News Translation Task
  In Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Machine Translation (WMT) 2019 [Online] [Paper] [BibTex]
• Check It Out : Politics and Neural Networks
  In Proceedings of CLEF 2018 Fact-Checking Shared Task
• Identifying Clickbait: A Multi-Strategy Approach Using Neural Networks
  In Proceedings of The 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development in Information Retrieval, (SIGIR) 2018 [Online] [Paper] [BibTex]
• SWDE: A Sub-Word And Document Embedding Based Engine for Clickbait Detection
  In Proceedings of SIGIR 2018 Workshop on Computational Surprise in Information Retrieval, (CompS Workshop) [Online] [Paper] [BibTex]

• Chair, NAACL 2022 Reproducibility Track
• Organizer, Workshop on Commonsense Representation and Reasoning (CSRRhttps://csrr-workshop.github.io) at ACL 2022
• Reviewer, ACL Rolling Review, November 2021 -
• Program Committee, Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics (NAACL-HLT), 2021
• Reviewer, ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (TALLIP)
• Program Committee, Student Workshop at ACL-IJCNLP 2021, NAACL 2021, AACL-IJCNLP 2020 and ACL 2020
• Reviewer, Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 2021
• Reviewer, European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR) 2021, 2020 and 2019
• Volunteer, ACL Year-Round Mentorship Initiative
• Co-founder, MUPy, Manipal's Python Developer Conference, in association with Python Software Foundation (PSF)
• Voting Member, Python Software Foundation (PSF)