Professional Summary
I am a senior doctoral fellow in Digital Humanities at IIT Jodhpur (IDRD). My research work centers on exploring community-informed and community-aware methods that contribute towards responsible Machine Translation research in India. With a diverse set of experience such as Data Analytics, Teaching, Web Dev, Research, and Entrepreneurship etc., I aim to contribute towards the revitalization and digitalization of marginalized or under-served language communities.
Work Experience
IIT Jodhpur, Rajasthan - PhD Fellow & Teaching Assistant (July 2023 - Present)
- Core Organizing Team - DHARTI 2024 Biennial Conference
- TA - Methods and Methodologies in Digital Humanities (MSc DH)
- TA - Python for Data Science (Executive PGP & BTech)
- TA - Perspectives in Language and Literary Studies (MSc Digital Humanities)
- TA - Social Connect & Responsibilities (B Tech)
DHARTI - Governing Body Member (April 2025 - Present)
- Help devise opportunities/events such as conferences/schemes/workshops/FDPs by DHARTI that contribute towards DH research in India and the Global South
Chandigarh University, Punjab - Trainer & Instructor (Feb 2022 - June 2023)
- Coordinator - ICCPE, 2023 in collaboration with Universidad de Alcala, Spain
- Trainer - Business Communication Skills (BHM)
- Instructor - Psychoanalysis and Literature (MA English)
Noble Literature Classes, Delhi - Founder & Educator (Sept 2019 - May 2020)
- Taught Literature to master's and bachelor's students
Noble Homestays, Delhi - Founder & Host (Dec 2017 - Feb 2020)
- Hosted happy stays for 100+ students & professionals over a period of 3+ years
Haptic Inc., California (now JIO Haptik) - Chat Assistant (Remote) (July 2015 - Dec 2015)
- A multifaceted role to assist clients in miscellaneous digital tasks and services
Education
IIT Jodhpur, Rajasthan - Doctor of Philosophy (Pursuing) (July 2023 - Present)
UT, Austin - PGP Data Science & Business Analytics (Completed) (January 2022 - January 2023)
CBLU, Haryana - Bachelor of Education (Completed) (Dec 2019 - Dec 2021)
IGNOU, Delhi - Master of Arts in English Language & Literature (Completed) (June 2017 - June 2019)
SRU, Rajasthan - Bachelor of Arts (Completed) (June 2013 - June 2016)
Research & Honors
- June, 2025: Completed project: "Explaining Mispronunciations via SSL + LLM: A Linguistically-Aware Feedback System" during the 15 days advanced summer school on "Multimodal NLP" research organised by IIIT-Hyderabad.
- February, 2025: Paper abstract for "andySET - A new dataset for Low-resource North-Indian Languages" accepted for CLNLP 2025 (Souzhou, China).
- December, 2024: Conference Presentation: "Innovations and Challenges in Parallel Corpus Development for Low-Resource Languages: A Review" at the DHARTI Biennial Conference 2024.
- April, 2024: Attended 10 days Orientation and Sensitization Programme for National Education Policy, 2020 organized by MMTTC in collaboration with Central University of Gujarat (India).
- February, 2024: Attended 3 days Workshop on Language Documentation Techniques and Technologies organized by IIT Indore in collaboration with ELDP, Berlin.
- July, 2023: Secured institute fellowship at IIT-Jodhpur for PhD in Digital Humanities.
- June, 2023: Conference presentation: "The Synthesis Of Sentience: Unraveling the Confluence of Literature and AI in Speculative Fiction" at the joint conference ICCPE-2023 by Chandigarh University in collaboration with Alcala University (Spain).
- March, 2023: Conference presentation: "Perspectives of Regionality, Ecocracy and Inequality in Kamlesh Chaudhary's Mhaari Kahaniya ('Our Stories')" at the joint conference "Voices Unheard: An Approach to Indigenous Indian Literature" organized by IIT Roorkee & Sahitya Akademy.
- Sept, 2022: Qualified NET-JRF fellowship by UGC, 2022 (Percentile - 99.8).
- Feb, 2021: Qualified GATE fellowship by IITB, 2021 (AIR-187).
Key Competencies
| Teaching & Training |
Research & Education |
| Language & Literature |
Data Analysis & Visualization |
| Applied Linguistics |
AI & ML |
