I am a PhD candidate in Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University . I am fortunate to be advised by our very own Dumbledore for NLP, Prof. Alan Black . I also work(ed) with Yonatan Bisk , Prof. Eric Nyberg and Louis-Philippe Morency . I am currently working with Yonatan Bisk and Alan Black on laying a ground work towards building conversations in augmented/virtual reality. Simultaneously, I am also working towards improving structure in long form generation.

The overarching goal of my research is to enable seamless interaction between intelligent machines and humans. Facilitating multimodal communication is an essential component of this. To this end, I work on controllable language generation with vision and language as input, focussing on content, structure and personality of generated text. I also work on long form generation, like stories and procedures. Towards realizing this, I am working on "Effective Controllability of Multimodal Narrative Intelligence" for my thesis. During my PhD, I spent 2 wonderful summers interning at Google Research and Apple ; and another 2 summers exploring the breadths and depths of NLP.