I am an Applied Scientist at Amazon Alexa AI. I work on Alexa’s language understanding engine and my research interests include semantic parsing and speech/conversational AI. I got my PhD in Computer Science from UMass Amherst in 2022. I worked with Prof. Andrew McCallum in the Information Extraction and Synthesis (IESL) Lab and my dissertation focused on improving low resource language understanding in voice assistants.
When I’m not working on research, I’m mostly playing on my PS5 or cheering for India in cricket. I also enjoy tennis and cooking with my wonderful and brilliant wife Emily First.
M.S/Ph.D in Computer Science, 2022
University of Massachusetts Amherst
B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering, 2014
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
▪ Jan 2023: Our paper, Low-Resource Compositional Semantic Parsing with Concept Pretraining, was accepted at EACL 2023.
▪ Sep 2022: I started work as an Applied Scientist at Amazon Alexa AI.
▪ Jul 2022: I successfully defended my doctoral dissertation at UMass Amherst!
▪ May 2022: I successfully proposed my doctoral dissertation (
pdf, slides) at UMass Amherst. My committee consists of Andrew McCallum, Mohit Iyyer, Andrew Lan, and Konstantine Arkoudas.
▪ Apr 2022: Our paper, Training Naturalized Semantic Parsers with Very Little Data, was accepted at IJCAI 2022.
▪ Feb 2021: I presented a poster on my internship work at AAAI 2021.
▪ Dec 2020: My internship work at Alexa in 2020, Exploring Transfer Learning for End-to-End Spoken Language Understanding, was accepted at AAAI 2021.
▪ Sep 2020: Our paper, Unsupervised Parsing with S-DIORA: Single Tree Encoding for Deep Inside-Outside Recursive Autoencoders, was accepted at EMNLP 2020.
▪ Sep 2020: Our paper, Compressing Transformer-Based Semantic Parsing Models using Compositional Code Embeddings, was accepted at EMNLP Findings 2020.
▪ Feb 2020: Our paper, Learning Latent Space Representations to Predict Patient Outcomes, was accepted at JMIR.
▪ Feb 2020: My internship work on improving Alexa commands was featured on Venturebeat.
▪ Jan 2020: My internship work at Alexa in 2019, Don’t Parse, Generate! A Seq to Seq Architecture for Task-Oriented Semantic Parsing, was accepted at WWW 2020.
▪ Nov 2019: I presented a poster about my summer internship work at Amazon Research Day 2019.
▪ Jul 2019: I was awarded the Sudha and Rajesh Jha Scholarship for 2019 at CICS, UMass Amherst.