About me

I very recently completed my Ph.D. from Manning CICS,UMass Amherst. In my PhD work, I dabbled with problems in Mechanistic and Functional Interpretability, with applications in Information Retrieval and Bioinformatics. I was very fortunate to be advised by Distinguished Professor 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 have previously interned at Bristol Myers Squibb, Genentech and 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

• Apr'26: Successfully defended my Ph.D. dissertation. 🎉🎉
• Jan'26: Hedonic Neurons is now accepted to ICLR 2026. 🎉
• Oct'25: Talk at IIT Delhi LCS2 Reading Group.
• Aug'25: Talk at Microsoft Research India IR Reading Group.
• Jun'25: One paper accepted at ICTIR 2025. One paper accepted at WExIR @ SIGIR 2025.
• May'25: Started summer internship with Data Science @ Bristol Myers Squibb.
• Jan'25: RankSHAP is now accepted to ICLR 2025. 🎉
• Jan'25: Honored to receive the Anuradha and Hanuma Kodavalla Graduate Scholarship in Computer Science.
• Dec'24: Successfully defended my Ph.D. thesis proposal!
• Jul'24: Awarded the Manning College Thesis Fellowship for Fall 2024.