0000-0002-3818-8227 About
Presently, since July 2022 I have been working as a Research Associate Professor at The Artificial Intelligence Institute (AIISC), University of South Carolina, USA. Previously, I spearheaded the establishment of Wipro Labs, in Bangalore, India. I maintain my association with Wipro Labs in the capacity of an Advisory Scientist. During my tenure at Wipro, I initiated and led multiple academic partnerships, including collaborations with institutions such as IIT Patna, IIIT Delhi, IIIT Hyderabad, UT Austin, the AI Institute at the University of South Carolina, and Cambridge University. I have started a joint PhD program, a unique setup for industry practitioners to earn their doctoral degrees while working full-time in industry. I am also currently advising Shaip, a company based in Louisville, KY, USA, on biomedical NLP in the capacity of Director of Innovation. I am an adjunct faculty at AI-NLP-ML group of the Indian Institute of Technology Patna. Very recently got associated with ACM India PhD clinic. Managing/guiding/collaborating with 100+ people across all the aforementioned organizations.
Earlier I spent a stint (a semester) as an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at Mahindra University, Hyderabad. Mahindra University is an Indo-French collaborative institute – a collaboration between Tech Mahinda, and Centrale Supélec, France. Before that, I worked at the Indian Institute of Information Technology Sri City, Andhra Pradesh, India during June 2015-June 2018 as an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science department. During July 2017- July 2018 I had the privilege of being affiliated associated with the Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad as a visiting scientist at the Srini Raju Centre for IT and The Networked Economy (SRITNE).
I have experienced two academic postdocs: in Europe and in the USA. In the USA I worked as a Research Scientist in the Human Language Technologies (HiLT) lab at the University of North Texas, USA. During the summer of 2014, I worked as an Invited Researcher at James Pennebaker’s lab, at the University of Texas-Austin . I spent one year working as a European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM) Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway during 2012-2013. Before moving to UNT I worked very briefly with Samsung Research India, Bangalore during the first half of 2013 as a Chief Engineer.
I have obtained a Ph.D. (Engineering) from Jadavpur University, India. During my doctoral study, I worked closely for an Indo-Japan collaborative project entitled “Sentiment Analysis where AI meets Psychology” with the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan.
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