About Me

I am a first year PhD student at MBZUAI, advised by Prof. Yova Kementchedjhieva and Prof. Kentaro Inui. I work on vision–language models, with a focus on personalization, alignment, spatial reasoning, and interpretability.

Previously, I was a Data & Applied Scientist at Microsoft (2019–2025). I worked closely with Prof. Monojit Choudhury and Prof. Sandipan Dandapat on multilingual NLP, building and evaluating models that don’t panic when the input switches languages mid-sentence. I also collaborated with Manish Gupta on scaling prompt optimization for industry scale prompts. I completed my B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering at IIT Kanpur, where I was awarded the Silver Medal. I worked there under Prof. Vinay P. Namboodiri, which led to my first full conference paper at CVPR. Outside research, I’m usually trekking or doing photography, occasionally claiming I am collecting data while mostly just admiring the view. More in my CV.