I am a Lecturer (US/India Equivalent: Assistant Professor) in the School of Computer Science & Engineering at UNSW, specializing in natural language processing (NLP).

Research: As of April 2024, my papers have 2500+ citations (h-index: 23), and I have been the lead investigator in grants with a cumulative total of AUD150,000, including Google exploreCSR and Google Research scholar grants. My publications are in conferences such as ACL, EMNLP, COLING, and CONLL, and in journals such as ACM Computing Surveys and PLOS One. I have been acknowledged as an outstanding reviewer at ICML, ACL and EACL. I have presented tutorials at EMNLP, AACL, ALTA and ICON. My 2018 TEDx talk 'Detecting sarcasm, combating hate' interleaved my PhD thesis with my personal journey. I apply NLP to epidemic intelligence in my collaboration with EPIWATCH (Kirby Institute) and to cybersecurity with IFCYBER (School of CSE). I supervise undergraduate, Masters and PhD students on their research projects in NLP.

Teaching: I designed and introduced a new NLP course at UNSW in 2024. I have co-authored a textbook on NLP with Pushpak Bhattacharyya, published by Wiley in 2023.
I am an Associate of the Human Rights Institute at UNSW, and co-lead the Community of Practice for Inclusive Research with Queer, Trans & people with variations of sex characteristics. I was the organizing chair for 'Rainbow AI': a workshop to support queer students in Australia interested in HDR and research careers in AI. The workshop was funded by Google's exploreCSR grant.

Past Experience: I also have over five years of industry experience in applying NLP techniques to various domains, such as online employment marketplace, meeting analytics and epidemic intelligence. I obtained a joint PhD degree from IIT Bombay (India) and Monash University (Australia) in 2018, and a best PhD thesis award by IITB-Monash Research Academy. Before joining UNSW in 2023, I worked as a data scientist at SEEK, a market leader in online employment marketplaces, and as a machine learning engineer at Notiv, a startup that provides AI-powered meeting insights, and a senior data scientist at Fractal, a leader in analytics. In these roles, I developed and deployed recommender systems, land natural language understanding systems, using state-of-the-art tools and frameworks, such as Azure Databricks, Atlassian Suite, and PyTorch. I have also worked as a lead trainer at the Institute of Data, that offers data science certifications to industry professionals.