I work as a Data & Applied Scientist at Microsoft Ads team (AI + R division), where I work on deep learning models that map relevant ads to a query. Models deployed by me are serving ads in many international markets across the world. My research interests span a variety of domains, from robotics & reinforcement learning to speech and text.

In my undergrad days at IIT Guwahati, I worked on problems at the intersection of deep reinforcement learning, imitation learning, and robotics. Both my research internships were focused on the same, where I worked under Prof. Balaraman Ravindran at RISE Labs, IIT Madras and with Dr. Venkat Natarajan at Intel Labs, Bengaluru. Apart from this, my bachelor thesis was in the speech domain, where I worked with Prof Rohit Sinha on developing universal self-supervised representations for multilingual speech systems.

Aim for the stars and lie with the soil - summarises my free time I spend with my telescope and in gardening. Please do ping me if you got some excellent astrophotography plans or gardening suggestions.