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Education
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2021-present
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
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2018-2020
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
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2015-2020
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)
Experience
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2023
Research Summer Intern
Salesforce Research
- Conducted multimodal AI research under the supervision of Dr. Juan Carlos Niebles.
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2020 - 2021
Co-Founder
aarogya.life
- Co-founded aarogya.life, an award winning health-tech social enterprise creating a medicine redistribution platform.
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2019-2020
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
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2019
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
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2018
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
Teaching
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F22
Instructor
Prison Teaching Initiative, Princeton University, Southwoods Prison
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F21 - Sp22
Instructor
Kohelet-Yeshiva
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F22
Teaching Assistant
University of Pennsylvania, Computer and Information Science
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Sp22
Teaching Assistant
University of Pennsylvania, Computer and Information Science
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F021
Teaching Assistant
University of Pennsylvania, Computer and Information Science
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Sum18-Sp19
Teaching Assistant
University of Pennsylvania, Computer and Information Science
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Sp018
Teaching Assistant
University of Pennsylvania, Computer and Information Science
Honors and Awards
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2023
- AWS Research Funding for Fair and Trustworthy AI
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2022
- Alexa Taskbot Competition Finalist
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2020
- Penn President’s Engagement Prize
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2019
- Penn Engineering Exceptional Service Award
Leadership and Activities
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CLunch Organizer
- Organized the Computational Linguistics Lunch (CLunch) series at the University of Pennsylvania (Jan - April, 2023)
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Alexa Taskbot Challenge
- Lead UPenn Team, which was one of the 5 finalists (Aug, 2021-May, 2022)
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Mind, Intelligence, Research, and Analysis (MIRA) Group
- Graduate philosophy research and training group participant (May,