I am an Assistant Professor and TBO Group Faculty Fellow in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi. I am also an associate faculty with the Amar Nath and Shashi Khosla School of Information Technology and the newly formed Yardi School of Artificial Intelligence at IIT Delhi. In 2022, I was inducted as a Young Associate of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE). Before IIT Delhi, I have worked for 2.5 years at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS) as a post-doctoral researcher. I obtained my PhD from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, where I was jointly advised by Prof. Niloy Ganguly from IIT Kharagpur and Prof. Krishna Gummadi from MPI-SWS. During PhD, I was awarded the prestigious Prime Minister's Fellowship for Doctoral Research and Google India PhD Fellowship. I have also worked at Microsoft Research for two years.

My research interests fall under the broad theme of Computing and Society, spanning the research areas of Social Computing, Information Retrieval, Artificial Intelligence and Law, and Fairness in Algorithmic Decision Making. The problems I study usually have two distinct aspects: an algorithmic aspect and a societal aspect. A common thread in my research lies in collecting and analyzing large scale data from online systems to understand whether there is any cause for concern, and then develop mechanisms to eliminate or reduce the impact. My research agenda is inherently interdisciplinary, and therefore, the tools and theories that I often use in my works come from machine learning, network science, media studies, computational social choice, social welfare and behavioral economics.

Fair Food Delivery: Times of India | Deccan Herald | Indian Express | Economic Times | Edex Live
Bias in Predictive Tools: Times of India
Clickbait: The Hindu

Presently, there is no provision for any short-term summer or winter internships in my group. My apologies if I do not respond to your emails seeking internship or short-term research opportunities.