About
I am a third year Ph.D student at the Sardine Lab advised by Dr. Andre F.T. Martins and Dr. Giuseppe Attanassio. I also conducted research at Amazon, Apple, and INRIA. I completed my master's at Saarland University studying Language Science and Technology where I worked at the Multilingual Technologies Lab, DFKI under the supervision of Dr. Cristina Espana-Bonet. Prior to this, I received my bachelor's as a Mathematics and Computer Science double major at École Polytechnique.
My current research interests largely revolve around learning better representations of languages in a multilingual and multimodal setup. My work has revolved around adding speech and visual modalities to pre-existing text-only LLMs in order to move towards the most natural way of communicating, which is through all modes. In the future, I want to create models that are robust to multiple languages and modalities which allows it to work in collaboration rather than interference. Please reach out for any interesting collaborations!
I am from Mumbai, India and I have had the good fortune to spend time in several places- France, Germany, UK, and now Portugal! I am an avid surfer and I enjoy spending my time travelling around the world hiking, eating, and taking photos :) Nice to e-meet you!
News
SPIRE has been accepted to EMNLP 2025 (Findings)! See you in China! We also release two new works on multimodality: TowerVision and the MF2 Benchmark!
Back to sunny Lisbon, and we now have a patent accepted from my work at Amazon!
Started my internship at Amazon Alexa on semantically aware speech representations.
First author paper accepted at SIGIR'24 on synthetic data generation via LLMs for virtual assistants!
Completed my master's, my internship at Apple, and moved to Lisbon, PT!
First author paper at EAMT, Finland with Inria Paris!
Spending the summer at Apple AI/ML Research in Germany!
First author paper in EACL about document representations with the MLT team at DFKI! See you in Croatia!
Awarded the ACM SIGHPC Computational Science Fellowship for 2022!
Awarded the Palantir Women in Technology Scholarship!
Attended my first conference, ACL! Presented my work at Repl4NLP :)
Excited to be joining Bloomberg LP in the spring for their technology insights week!
Started my master's degree at Saarland Uni
I am going to be giving a talk at PyCon ZA'21 on Self-Supervised Action Classification!
I have successfully completed my bachelor's degree with honours!
Awarded a scholarship to attend the first vGHC EMEA conference!
Successfully defended my thesis on cross lingual word embeddings for low resource machine translation receiving the highest grade!
Held my first event at Code Week EU by Code.org!
Completed the Google Get Ahead programme, an invite only development programme for students.
Part of the Programme Committee at NLP Beyond Text Workshop at EMNLP'20!
Won the Google WomenTechmakers Computer Science Scholarship in EMEA!
Publications
Media and Outreach Work
In my time at university, my work has been recognised in a few different areas. Have a look!
Interviews
Women in Science Interview (2020)
I talk about what I think about the position of women in STEM fields, why I think representation matters, and what I'm doing to break down language barriers for people around the world with hopes of making tech an inclusive field!
Read InterviewTalks
PyCon ZA 2021: Moving In-Sync
PyCon FR 2019: APIs and Language Processing with Python for Twitter
Tech Outreach
My love for languages and inclusivity goes far beyond the realms of research and academic work! In my free time, I volunteer at organizations whose mission I believe in!
Code.org (2020)
Code.org allows tech enthusiasts from around the world to register as a volunteer and teach basic programming skills to kids everywhere. I conducted an event as part of EU Code Week 2020 where I spoke about different scholarship opportunities available for women in STEM fields within the EMEA region.
RaspberryPi Translation Volunteer (2019)
I joined RaspberryPi Translation in the summer of 2019 as a translator for the English-Hindi team. I translated and reviewed numerous projects to impact more than 250 code clubs in India. I also successfully organized a translation hackathon where we translated 15 projects in 7 different languages! This work was highly impactful in rural communities throughout India.