organiser 🗂️

2022-25

i like helping organise events, connecting people, and making things smoother for a better exchange of ideas, I have been:

• 🙋 chair of AACL-IJCNLP 2025's Volunteers for selecting, onboarding, and managing volunteers
• 🪑 chair of COLING 2025's Social Diversity & Inclusion (SD&I) for facilitating Birds of a Feather sessions
• 📖 coordinating NLP Reading Group at MBZUAI by asking for volunteers to talk about their work/interest weekly.
• 🧩 panini linguistics olympiad - 2-ex national coordinator & current problem committee member
• 🧠 headed college and school quiz & linguistics clubs + conducted quizzes for under-privileged schools outside Raipur.

talks 🎤

2023-25

love talking about linguistics, and ai when invited and on friends' podcasts:

• 🎥 researchtrend.ai connect talks - LRM (on our unveiLing paper)
• 🏛️ Innovation Xchange on Future of World Telecom Standards - AI Panellist (Govt. of India, Dept. of Telecommunications, ITU-WTSA'24)
• ⚡ ACCS '23 and SAFAL '24 - Pseudoword Generation & Evaluation Blitz Talk
• 🎧 The Psy Principle (Hritik)
• 🎙️ The MashUp233 (Amoaben)
• 🔤 LangBytes (João)
• 📜 bonus: themes in historical linguistics x llms that i summarised at lab recently (slides)

mentoring + TA-ing 🎓

2022-25

i mentor and collaborate with visiting scholars, and help guide juinors in their course projects. i have also TA-ed for multiple courses at iiit-h and mbzuai:

• 🌱 UGRIP mentor: we compressed introductory ML/NLP/CV concepts into a self-paced journey and a 3-day crash course for interns at mbzuai.
• 🤖 TA-ed intro to NLP '25 by Prof. Ted Briscoe at MBZUAI, where i graded assignments, held tutorials, and helped participants shape their projects.
• 📚 also TA-ed 3 fun courses at iiit-h, where i helped Prof. Aditi Mukherjee redesign the intro. to linguistics and typology courses for an online mode of delivery during covid-19, created and graded, held tutorials, etc.

reviewing + volunteering + chatting at conferences 🗣️

2023-25

i keep myself busy with things outside my phd when i can, it helps me broaden my perspective and borrow ideas (+ dec conferences in india are fun):

• 🔍 reviewed papers submitted to nature, ieee tpami, emnlp, coling, acl, and arrs in general + reviewer & committee member at dravidianlangtech '23.: OpenReview Profile linked
• 🌏 volunteered and participated at the first edition of ai 4 global south
• 💼 volunteered at ieee icdm 2024 as local logistics volunteer.
• 🫂 volunteered at mental health support group at iiit-h. was a first-aid contact point for students seeking help.
• 🔬 attended indoml'25 at bits hyderabad
• 📊 attended cods comad'24 at iit jodhpur