Grants & Awards
- Faculty Development Award, UT Austin - Winner (2025).
- Cognitive Science Research Initiative Scheme (2013), Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, for research on Cognitive Natural Language Processing based on Eye-tracking and EEG (INR 4 million, PI - Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya).
- Research Infrastructure Funding Scheme, IIT Bombay (2014) for Cognitive NLP Lab Setup (INR 4.2 million, PI - Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya).
- Recipient of IBM Stock Award for 2018 for outstanding research achievement. This is an individual award given to a smaller number of people globally every year, chosen by the CEO of IBM.
- Recipient of IBM Ph.D. Fellowship award for the academic year 2015-2016.
Invited Service & Recognition
- Reviewing Panel for the Swiss National Science Foundation (Swiss-NSF) - 10.003.450: request for scientific evaluation; reviewed and made decisions on grant proposals submitted in the domain of Natural Language Processing.
- Invited expert panelist at the Vaibhav Summit, a global summit of overseas and resident Indian scientists and academicians held online in October 2020. The summit was initiated by the Government of India, and the discussion theme was NLP for Social Good. Only 20 distinguished researchers in NLP were invited.
- Outstanding Reviewer recognition at ACL (as listed in service profile).
- Outstanding Reviewer recognition at EMNLP 2020.
- Repeated invitations as Program Committee member/reviewer across top-tier NLP/AI venues.
- Area Chair roles for AAAI 2026 and ACL-ARR 2025/2026.
Media Coverage
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IBM India Engineers help make US Open Virtual, The Times of India, 2 September 2020.
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IIT-Bombay team creates program to detect drunk text message writers, The Indian Express, 21 August 2015.
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Leadership & Impact
- Senior Program Committee Member: AAAI (multiple cycles).
- Cross-sector research impact across academia, Apple Siri, IBM Research, and startup innovation.
- Sustained invited tutorial and keynote presence at major conferences and institutions.
- Extensive student mentorship and thesis supervision at UT Austin and collaborating institutions.