I am a third-year CS PhD student in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech, where I'm advised by Prof. Munmun De Choudhury. Using computational techinques from Natural Language Processing (NLP) and theories from Sociology and Psychology, my research takes a human-centered approach to analyze how consumption of low-quality information on online platforms and Generative AI technologies impacts human behavior and perpetuates harms, including bias and inequity.

In my dissertation, I explore the nuanced aspects of interactions between humans and online/Generative AI platforms, focusing on how variations in user backgrounds, purposes of use, and historical engagement influence the quality of information and services provided. My research aims to define and quantify low-quality information within these contexts in healthcare and mental health, establishing metrics to evaluate these systems and make them safer to use. My previous relevant work includes understanding the dynamics of cross-domain misinformation, conducting cross-lingual evaluations of LLMs for healthcare queries, and understanding hallucinations in LLMs for healthcare domain. Through my research, I aim to uncover systemic issues within Generative AI technologies through systematic frameworks, providing data-driven insights to policymakers, researchers, and developers for creating more equitable, safe and user-centered AI systems.

Previously, I worked as a Software Engineer at Microsoft where I got an opportunity to work on NLP and Data Science related problems on Automatic Speech Recognition Systems and Bing. I graduated from International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad with B.Tech (Honours) and M.S in Computer Science and Engineering. I was advised by Prof. Ponnurangam Kumaraguru and Dr. Manish Shrivastava for my masters thesis, Towards A More Holistic Approach On Online Abuse and Antisemitism.

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Experience

[2022-Present] Second year CS PhD student working with Prof. Munmun De Choudhury in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech

[2024-2024] Interned within the Human-Centered AI Experience (HCAIX) group, where I collaborated with Dr. Jina Suh and Dr. Javier Hernandez. My work focused on investigating the psychological implications of interacting with AI conversational agents.

[2020-2022] Worked as a Software Engineer at Microsoft IDC. Worked on developing language models for Automatic Speech Recognition systems. I also worked in the developer segment on Bing.com that is responsible for presenting coding/development related answers to the user queries.

[2021-2022] Collaborated as an external Research Associate at Georgia Institute of Technology with Prof. Munmun De Choudhury. My work dealt with the analysis of changes in the workplace culture during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our project aimed to build a prediction model that can be used to predict the chances of success for an organization in creating a healthy working culture in the post COVID-19 era.

[2021-2022] Worked as an external collaborator with Dr. Jisun An from Singapore Management University. The project aimed at analyzing the rising problem of Islamophobia in the Indian Sub-continent. Specifically, we are performed a user level study to analyse the patterns in spread of online hate against the Muslim community.

[2018-2020] Worked as a Research Assistant with Prof. Ponnurangam Kumaraguru for my masters thesis. My work focused in the area of content moderation. I worked on detection and analysis of hate speech on social media platforms. During this period, I worked on general purpose abuse detection, multimodal Antisemitism detection and large-scale quantitative study analyzing Islamophobia.

[2017-2020] Worked as a Teaching Assistant for Statistical Methods in AI (twice), Design and Analysis of Software Systems (twice), Operating Systems and Distributed Systems. Responsible for setting up the assignments, evaluating papers and conducting tutorials.