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Ph.D in Computer and Information Science

University of Pennsylvania

• Research Interests in Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision
• Advised by Mark Yatskar, Chris Callison-Burch

MSE in Computer and Information Science

University of Pennsylvania

• Thesis Title "Metaphor and Entailment; Looking at Metaphors Through the Lense of Textual Entailment"
• Advised by Mitch Marcus

Dual Degree in Artificial Intelligence

University of Pennsylvania

• BA (Honors) in Cognitive Science, BA (Honorss) in Philosophy, BAS in Computer and Cognitive Science
• Minor in Mathematics
• Dean’s List (Aug, 2017 - May, 2020)

Research Summer Intern

Salesforce Research

• Conducted multimodal AI research under the supervision of Dr. Juan Carlos Niebles.

Co-Founder

aarogya.life

• Co-founded aarogya.life, an award winning health-tech social enterprise creating a medicine redistribution platform.

Research Assistant

General Robotics, Automation, and Sensing (GRASP) Lab, University of Pennsylvania

• Worked on estimating optical flow from event based cameras (supervised and unsupervised) using Spiking Neural Networks.
• Supervised by Prof. Kostas Daniilidis

Research Assistant

Kod*Lab, University of Pennsylvania

• Developed a simulation for physically parameterized soft bellow-shaped robots with multiple degrees of freedom.
• Supervised by Prof. Daniel Koditschek

Research Assistant

Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania

• Implemented Prof. Dana Angluin’s K-reversible inference algorithm and applied it on the synthesis of Turkish morphology.
• Supervised by Prof. Mitch Marcus

Instructor, Introduction to Computer Science

Prison Teaching Initiative, Princeton University, Southwoods Prison

Instructor, Introduction to Python (Coding Club)

Kohelet-Yeshiva

Teaching Assistant, CIS530 - Natural Language Processing

University of Pennsylvania, Computer and Information Science

Teaching Assistant, CIS 700 - Interactive Fiction and Text Generation

University of Pennsylvania, Computer and Information Science

Teaching Assistant, CIS 521 - Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

University of Pennsylvania, Computer and Information Science

Teaching Assistant, MCIT 592 - Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science

University of Pennsylvania, Computer and Information Science

Teaching Assistant, CIS 262 - Automata, Computability, and Complexity

University of Pennsylvania, Computer and Information Science

• CTL Graduate Fellowship for Teaching Excellence

• AWS Research Funding for Fair and Trustworthy AI

• Alexa Taskbot Competition Finalist

• Penn President’s Engagement Prize

• Penn Engineering Exceptional Service Award