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Education

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

  • 2023
    Research Summer Intern
    Salesforce Research
    • Conducted multimodal AI research under the supervision of Dr. Juan Carlos Niebles.
  • 2020 - 2021
    Co-Founder
    aarogya.life
    • Co-founded aarogya.life, an award winning health-tech social enterprise creating a medicine redistribution platform.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

  • F22
    Instructor
    Prison Teaching Initiative, Princeton University, Southwoods Prison
  • F21 - Sp22
    Instructor
    Kohelet-Yeshiva
  • F22
    Teaching Assistant
    University of Pennsylvania, Computer and Information Science
  • Sp22
    Teaching Assistant
    University of Pennsylvania, Computer and Information Science
  • F021
    Teaching Assistant
    University of Pennsylvania, Computer and Information Science
  • Sum18-Sp19
    Teaching Assistant
    University of Pennsylvania, Computer and Information Science
  • Sp018
    Teaching Assistant
    University of Pennsylvania, Computer and Information Science

Honors and Awards

  • 2023
    • AWS Research Funding for Fair and Trustworthy AI
  • 2022
    • Alexa Taskbot Competition Finalist
  • 2020
    • Penn President’s Engagement Prize
  • 2019
    • Penn Engineering Exceptional Service Award

Leadership and Activities

  • CLunch Organizer
    • Organized the Computational Linguistics Lunch (CLunch) series at the University of Pennsylvania (Jan - April, 2023)
  • Alexa Taskbot Challenge
    • Lead UPenn Team, which was one of the 5 finalists (Aug, 2021-May, 2022)
  • Mind, Intelligence, Research, and Analysis (MIRA) Group
    • Graduate philosophy research and training group participant (May,