About Me

I'm a postgraduate student at The University of Sheffield studying Speech and Langauge Processing. I love languages and how they interact with the human brain. My research interests lie in Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics. My goal is to leverage computational and linguistics findings on knowledge transfer, language acquisition and lexical building in order to help machines and human understand languages better.

If I'm not doing a project then I love to listen to music, play video games, read books and go on hikes. I'm always up for a project, so don't think twice about dropping me a message.

Research

Centre for Language Evolution, University of Edinburgh

Visitng Student Researcher - August 2021 - Present

Formal v/s Contextual Cues for Grammatical Gender Prediction

Generated vector representations based on contextual and formal properties of the words
Experimented extensively on the usability of both types of vectors in a task of noun gender prediction

Natural Language Processing Artificial Language Learning

Cognitive Neuoscience Lab, BITS Pilani Goa Campus

Student Researcher - August 2020 - Present

Diachronic Distributed Word Representations as Models of Mental Lexicon

Used a temporally sliced corpus to learn distributed word repre-sentations of child-speech and child-directed speech
Demonstrated the ease of usage and effectiveness of diachronic distributed word representations in modeling lexical development

Natural Language Processing Computational Linguistics

Work Experience

Microsoft IDC, Hyderabad

Software Engineer Intern - May 2021 - July 2021

Part of the Microsoft Search, Assistance and Intelligence Team.

Added end-to-end pipelines for new voice commands in state-of-the-art conversational bot.
Implemented easily migratable, functional code as the framework was being given a revamp to be less dependent on APIs.

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Microsoft IDC, Hyderabad

Software Engineer Intern - May 2020 - July 2020

Worked in the E+D group, specifically in the IC3 team as a front-end developer.

Migrated existing static website to a dynamic frontend and deployed it on Azure.
Integrated ReactJS pages to work with .NET MVC project and made migration of future pages easier.

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Tessellate Imaging

Machine Learning Intern - February 2020 - May 2020

Was a part of the open source team of Tessellate Imaging's MonkAI, which is a low code deep learning tool and wrapper for computer vision.

Contributed in necessary documentation for the library to run on colab.
Helped in analysis and implementation of the hyperparameter analyser of the library by running experiments on a plant disease classification dataset.

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