I am an Assistant Professor at Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) department, IIT Kanpur (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur). I research in areas of Natural Language Processing (NLP), Machine Learning (ML), and Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Previously, I worked at Disney Research (DR), (erstwhile) Pittsburgh, Los Angeles and Zurich. At DR, I conducted research in multi-modal Affective computing, Conversational Systems and Natural Language Understanding (NLU).

I did my Ph.D. at Saarland University, Germany under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Manfred Pinkal and Dr. Ivan Titov. I was associated with Department of Computational Lingusitics, MultiModal Cluster Initiative (MMCI) and Department of Computer Science.