I am an AI Research Scientist at the Multimodal Dialogue and Interaction (MDI) group
at Intel Labs, USA and
work on
Human-AI collaboration and dialogue & interaction systems research. Prior to joining Intel, I
obtained my PhD in
Computer Science at the
University of Illinois at
Chicago (UIC), USA under the supervision of Prof. Bing
Liu, completed
my Masters in Computer Science from Indian Institute of
Technology (IIT) - Roorkee,
India under the supervision of
Dr. Dhaval Patel (presently, Researcher at IBM TJ Watson Research Lab, NY) and Bachelor in
Computer Science from
Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST)
- Shibpur, India.
My research works broadly falls into the area of Natural Language Processing (NLP),
Deep Learning,
Natural Language Understanding (NLU), Dialogue and Interactive Systems, Lifelong
and Continual Learning,
Open-World AI / Learning problems. My current research topics include Knowledge
Base Reasoning,
Natural Language Interface (NLI) Design, Open-world Interactive Learning,
Factual and Commonsense Reasoning, and Sentiment Analysis.
During my PhD, I also worked as a Summer Research Intern at Microsoft Research -
Redmond on Natural Language
Interaction (NLI) system design and at Futurewei Technologies (aka Huawei Research USA)
on project related to user activity & interest mining. Before joining UIC and after completion of my
masters, I also
worked as a Junior Research Fellow at IIT Roorkee under the supervison of Dr.
Dhaval Patel
on News Data Analytics and Location-aware Review Mining projects.