About me

I am a Ph.D. candidate at Manning CICS,UMass Amherst. In my PhD work, I dabble with problems in Mechanistic and Functional Interpretability, with applications in Information Retrieval and Bioinformatics. I am fortunate to be advised by James Allan. I earned an M.S. in CS from UMass Amherst in Fall’23 and a B.Tech in CS from IIIT-Delhi in Summer’18. I spent Summer’22 as an AI intern in Genentech and Summer’17 as a Software intern at Google India.

I am passionate about using Artificial Intelligence to enhance genomic understanding. My current focus is on developing Mechanistic Interpretability methods that alleviate scientific understanding, by uncovering unknown mechanisms and properties of the underlying data generating processes.

📢 Recent News

• January 2025: RankSHAP is now accepted to ICLR 2025. 🎉
• January 2025: Honored to receive the Anuradha and Hanuma Kodavalla Graduate Scholarship in Computer Science.
• December 2024: Successfully defended my Ph.D. thesis proposal! Excited for the final stretch of my doctoral journey.
• July 2024: Awarded the Manning College Thesis Fellowship for Fall 2024. Grateful for the support!