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PhD (Fall 2019 - Present) at <a href="https://www.utexas.edu/"><strong>The University of Texas at Austin</strong></a>.
    I am member of <a href="https://bigdata.oden.utexas.edu/"><strong>Center for Big Data Analytics</strong></a>,
    <a href="http://wncg.org/"><strong>WNCG</strong></a>, <a href="https://www.oden.utexas.edu/"><strong>ODEN Institute
    for Computational Engineering and Sciences</strong></a> and
    <a href="http://data.ece.utexas.edu/index.php?n=Main.HomePage"><strong>UT-MINDS</strong></a>
    (Machine INtelligence and Decision Systems). I am jointly advised by
    <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=xBv5ZfkAAAAJ&hl=en"><strong>Prof.
        Inderjit S. Dhillon</strong></a>
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    <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=O-DazBUAAAAJ&hl=en"><strong>
        Prof. Sujay Sanghavi</strong></a>

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Research Intern (Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Summer 2022, Fall 2021, Summer 2021) at
    <a href="https://research.fb.com/publications/"><strong>Meta</strong></a>.
    At Meta, I collaborate closely with <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=VhxDLwcAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate">Li Jing</a> and
        <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=cMPKe9UAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate">Mike Rabbatt</a>.
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Research Intern (Summer 2020) at
    <a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/group/cognitive-services-research/"><strong>
    Microsoft Research</strong></a>.
    At Microsoft I collaborated closely with
    <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=AQSvco0AAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate">Dimitrios Dimitradis</a> and
    <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=qsIUPW0AAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate">Kenichi Kumatani</a> .
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Applied Scientist (June 2016 - June 2019) at <a href="https://www.amazon.jobs/en/teams/alexa-ai"><strong>Amazon
    Alexa AI</strong></a>.
    At Amazon, I worked under amazing mentors (managers) <a href="http://www.kozareva.com/">Zornitsa Kozareva</a>,
    <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=GMcL_9kAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate"> Dilek
        Hakkani Tur </a>, <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/ametallinou/"> Angeliki Metallinou</a>.
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Data Scientist (Nov 2015 - June 2016) at <a href="https://www.ebay.com/"><strong>eBay Customer Insights
    and Analytics</strong></a>
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Data Scientist (March 2015 - Nov 2015) at <a href="https://www.slb.com/"><strong>Schlumberger Oilfield Services</strong></a>
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Data Scientist Intern (Jan 2015 - March 2015) at <a href="https://www.fem-inc.com/"><strong>FEM inc</strong></a>,
    which is now sold to <a href="https://www.nielsen.com/us/en/"><strong>AC Nielsen</strong></a>
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Research Intern (Summer 2014) at <a href="https://www.ttic.edu/"><strong>The Toyota
    Technological Institute Chicago(TTIC)</strong></a> in collaboration with <a href="https://www.tri.global/">
    <strong>Toyota Research Institute in North America(TRINA)</strong></a> on enabling
    Computer Vision based Driverless Cars. I was advised by
    <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=nbpafUkAAAAJ&hl=en"><strong>Prof. David McAllester</strong></a>
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Master of Science(MS) (Sept, 2013 - Jan, 2015) at <a href="https://uci.edu/"><strong>University of
    California, Irvine</strong></a>. I worked closely with
    <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=bEcLezcAAAAJ&hl=en"><strong>Prof.
        Animashree Anandkumar</strong></a> and
    <a href="https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=yLQF4mkAAAAJ&hl=en"><strong>Prof. Charless Fowlkes</strong></a>
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Bachelor of Engineering(BE) (May, 2009 - May, 2013) at <a href="http://www.jaduniv.edu.in/"><strong>Jadavpur
    University</strong></a>. I was advised by
    <a href="https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=z1BR7IgAAAAJ&hl=en">
        <strong>Prof. Amitava Gupta</strong></a> and
    <a href="https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?hl=en&user=idxP_tAAAAAJ&view_op=list_works">
        <strong>Prof. Ratna Ghosh</strong></a>. I collaborated very closely with <a
        href="https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=AnvxAbkAAAAJ&hl=en"><strong>Dr. Saptarshi Das</strong></a> ,
    <a href="https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=7ew4nvsAAAAJ&hl=en"><strong>Dr.
        Indranil Pan</strong></a> and <a href="https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=9ix9YS8AAAAJ&hl=en">
    <strong>Shantanu Das</a>, Scientist H+</strong>,<a href="http://www.barc.gov.in/"><strong>BARC</strong></a>.
    Together we have authored several research papers during my undergraduate.
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