I am a Lecturer (Teaching & Research) at the School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering( CSEE), University of Essex, UK.
I was a Post-Doctoral researcher at the Computational Linguistics Lab, Queen Mary University of London working with Matthew Purver. I was part of the EMBEDDIA and SoDeStream projects.
Before that, I obtained a Ph.D. at DISI, the University of Trento. I was supervised by Raffaella Bernardi, University of Trento, and co-supervised by Raquel Fernández, University of Amsterdam. I focused on understanding what language and vision model learns. I was also a visiting scholar for a short time at Dialogue Modelling Group, University of Amsterdam. During my Ph.D., I collaborated with multiple researchers; Barbara Plank, Aurélie Herbelot, Elia Bruni, Enver Sangineto, Moin Nabi, and others
Prior to my Ph.D., I was research assistant at the University of Malaya working with C. S. Chan. I received my M.S. (by Research) Degree with a focus on Computer Vision from CVIT, IIIT Hyderabad under the supervision of C. V. Jawahar. Before that, I worked as a Software Engineer for Accenture Services Pvt. Limited.
Interests
- Conversational AI
- Cross-Lingual Representation
- Multi-modal AI
- Low Resource NLP
Education
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PhD (CSE)
University of Trento, Italy
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M.S. (by Research) (CSE)
IIIT Hyderabad, India