Feb 2025- 5 papers accepted at ACM WebConf 2025 Companion.
Jan 2025- One paper accepted at NAACL 2025 (main), One review paper at SNAM journal.
Nov 2024- Third MM4SG will be at WebConf 2025, fourth will be jointly held with MAGMaR at ACL 2025! We are getting bigger!
Oct 2024- Two papers accepted at IEEE BigData 2024.
Sept 2024- Our paper "Did You Tell a Deadly Lie? Evaluating Large Language Models for Health Misinformation Identification" has been accepted at WISE 2024.
August 2024- Our paper "3D Object Detection and Tracking Refinement with Ensemble Methods and Spatiotemporal Filtering" has been accepted to ROAD++ at ECCV 2024.
August 2024- We are organizing a shared task on Natural Language Understanding of Devanagari Script Languages at CHIPSAL@COLING 2025! Please participate here!
July 2024- Our paper "Hate Speech Classification in Text-Embedded Images: Integrating Ontology, Contextual Semantics, and Vision-Language Representations" is accepted in ASONAM 2024.
June 2024- Our paper "A deep dive into enhancing sharing of naturalistic driving data through face deidentification" is accepted at The Visual Computer (Springer, I.F. 3.5).
May 2024- We successfully wrapped up the first MM4SG workshop at ACM WebConf 2024! The second iteration of the MM4SG workshop will be held in conjunction with the IEEE ICDM Conference (A* Conference) in UAE. Please find the call for papers.
May 2024- Our paper "Navigating the Web of Disinformation and Misinformation: Large Language Models as Double-Edged Swords" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Access.
May 2024- Our paper "CHUNAV: Analyzing Hindi Hate Speech and Targeted Groups in Indian Election Discourse" has been accepted to ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing.
May 2024- Our paper "BioMedBLIP: Advancing Accuracy in Multimodal Medical Tasks through Bootstrapped Language-Image Pretraining" is accepted at JMIR Medical Informatics.
April 2024- We will be organizing Workshop on Vision-Language Models for Biomedical Applications: VLM4Bio 2024 at ACM Multimedia (A* Conference) 2024.
April 2024- One paper "Large Language Model-based Framework for Item Difficulty and Response Time Estimation for Assessments" was accepted at the BEA workshop @ NAACL.
April 2024- One paper "Hybrid Approaches with Large Language Models for Enhanced Sentiment Analysis in Code-Switched and Code-Mixed Texts" accepted at WILDRE @ LREC-COLING.
March 2024- One paper "Semantic Understanding of Traffic Scenes with Large Vision Language Models" is accepted at IEEE IV 2024.
March 2024- One paper "Why the Unexpected? Dissecting the Political and Economic Bias in Persian Small and Large Language Models" accepted at SIGUL @ LREC-COLING 2024!
March 2024- The proceedings of the 7th CASE workshop held at EACL 2024 are now online. Please check the proceedings here. It was a nice experience organizing the workshop. Please find the overview of the workshop here.
March 2024- One paper was accepted at the Companion of Web Conference 2024!
February 2024- Our paper "Analyzing the Dynamics of Climate Change Discourse on Twitter: A New Annotated Corpus and Multi-Aspect Classification" was accepted at LREC-COLING 2024.
February 2024- We successfully wrapped up two shared tasks in CASE@EACL 2024. Looking forward to the presentations by participants.
January 2024- Two papers were accepted at the DeFactify workshop at AAAI 2024.
December 2023- Our paper "LowResourceNLU at BLP-2023 Task 1 & 2: Enhancing Sentiment Classification and Violence Incitement Detection in Bangla Through Aggregated Language Models" won the best paper award at Bangla NLP workshop (co-located at EMNLP 2023).
December 2023- Our paper "Multi-Aspect Annotation and Analysis of Nepali Tweets on Anti-Establishment Election Discourse" was accepted for publication in the IEEE Access journal.
November 2023- I am organizing the First International Workshop on Multimodal Content Analysis for Social Good (MM4SG) co-located at the Web Conference 2024.
November 2023- Our paper "Incorporating Historical Information by Disentangling Hidden Representations for Mental Health Surveillance on Social Media" was accepted in the Social Network Analysis and Mining (Springer) journal.
November 2023- I am organizing CASE workshop along with two shared tasks at EACL 2024! Please find details here.
October 2023- 3 papers accepted at ArabicNLP co-located at EMNLP 2023.
October 2023- 2 papers accepted at BLP workshop @ EMNLP 2023.
October 2023- 3 papers accepted at IJCNLP-AACL 2023 workshops (SocialNLP, WIESP, FinNLP).
September 2023- Our paper "Temporally Dynamic Session-Keyword Aware Sequential Recommendation System" was accepted at the NeuRec Workshop @ ICDM 2023.
September 2023- We successfully organized the 6th Workshop on Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from Text (CASE workshop 2023) at RANLP 2023.
August 2023- Started as a research faculty at Virginia Tech.
August 2023- Our report "Face De-identification of Drivers from NDS Data and Its Effectiveness in Human Factors" is finally published by the National Surface Transportation Safety Center for Excellence.
July 2023- Our paper "NEHATE: Large-Scale Annotated Data Shedding Light on Hate Speech in Nepali Local Election Discourse" was accepted at the 26th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI) 2023.
June 2023- Our paper "ChatGPT, Bard, and Large Language Models for Biomedical Research: Opportunities and Pitfalls" was accepted for publication in the Annals of Biomedical Engineering journal (Springer, IF: 4.3)
June 2023- Our paper "Reducing Knowledge Noise for Improved Semantic Analysis in Biomedical Natural Language Processing Applications" was recently accepted at the Clinical NLP workshop at ACL 2023.
June 2023- Our paper "Breaking Barriers: Exploring the Diagnostic Potential of Speech Narratives in Hindi for Alzheimer's Disease" was recently accepted at the Clinical NLP workshop at ACL 2023.
May 2023- Our paper "ADEPT: Adapter-based Efficient Prompt Tuning Approach for Language Models" was recently accepted at the SustaiNLP workshop at ACL 2023.
May 2023- Awarded scholarship to attend ICWSM 2023.
April 2023- Our paper "Uncovering Political Hate Speech During Indian Election Campaign: A New Low-Resource Dataset and Baselines" was accepted in the MEDIATE workshop at ICWSM 2023.
April 2023- We will be presenting our position paper "From Humans to Machines: Can ChatGPT-like LLMs Effectively Replace Human Annotators in NLP Tasks?" at ICWSM 2023.
April 2023- Our paper "Explainable Hybrid Word Representations for Sentiment Analysis of Financial News" is accepted for publication in Neural Networks Journal (Elsevier; IF: 9.7).
April 2023- Our paper "CrisisHateMM: Multimodal Analysis of Directed and Undirected Hate Speech in Text-Embedded Images from Russia-Ukraine Conflict" was accepted at the MMCM workshop colocated with CVPR 2023.
April 2023- Our paper "MDKG: Graph-Based Medical Knowledge-Guided Dialogue Generation" was accepted at SIGIR 2023 (main conference) (A* Conference).
April 2023- Our paper "A Temporal Encoder-Decoder Approach to Extracting Blood Volume Pulse Signal Morphology from Face Videos" was accepted at the CVPM workshop colocated with CVPR 2023. (Advised by: Prof. Lynn Abbott and Dr. Abhijit Sarkar)
April 2023- Our paper "Camera-based Recovery of Cardiovascular Signals from Unconstrained Face Videos Using an Attention Network" was accepted at the CVPM workshop colocated with CVPR 2023. (Advised by: Prof. Lynn Abbott and Dr. Abhijit Sarkar)
March 2023- Our paper titled "GAN-based Deidentification of Drivers’ Face Videos: An Assessment of Human Factors Implications in NDS Data" was accepted in 34th IEEE IV 2023! (Advised by: Dr. Abhijit Sarkar, Virginia Tech Transportation Institute)
March 2023- I am organizing a shared task at RANLP 2023! Find more about it here.
October 2022- Presented my work at HFES 2022! Atlanta is a beautiful city.
October 2022- Got my paper accepted at the CASE workshop in EMNLP 2022.
September 2022- Attended Tapia conference in DC from September 7-10. Met wonderful people and made great friends.
July 2022- We are organizing a tutorial "Remote Measurement of Vital Signs using AI for Health Monitoring and Cognition" at AHFE 2022 (July 24-28, 2022 - Sheraton New York Times Square, USA). Catch us up on 25 July 2022. For more information: Visit the tutorial website.
July 2022- Will be around ICML 2022 in Baltimore. Let's catch up! I am also volunteering on 21 and 22 July at ICML.
June 2022- Awarded scholarship to attend TAPIA conference 2022 in Washington DC (September 7-10). Will be representing the CS department at Virginia Tech!
May 2022- Paper titled "Deidentification of Drivers’ Face Videos: Scope and Challenges in Human Factors Research" accepted at 66th International Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. (Advised by: Dr. Abhijit Sarkar, Virginia Tech Transportation Institute)
May 2022- Won the first position among projects showcased for the Information Visualization course (Spring 2022)
Dec 2021- Paper accepted at International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (Elsevier; IF 4.87)! DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhcs.2021.102761
Dec 2021- Completed my first semester with a 4.0/4.0 GPA! Excited for the semesters ahead!
Nov 2021- Started new role as a member of Sanghani Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics, Virginia Tech. Meet our team! Also, see a brief intro about the research work I am doing here.
Oct 2021- Started working as a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) subcommittee member for the Division of Freight, Transit, and Heavy Vehicle Safety, Virginia Tech Transportation Institute (VTTI).
Sept 2021- Started working as a Graduate Student Ambassador for Graduate School, Virginia Tech. Working ahead to promote inclusion and diversity with the Office of Recruitment, Diversity, and Inclusion (ORDI), Virginia Tech. Got featured in VT News!
Aug 2021- Started working as a Graduate Research Assistant at Virginia Tech Transportation Institute (VTTI) (Advised by: Dr. Abhijit Sarkar).
Aug 2021- Started working as a Graduate Research Assistant at Bradley Department of ECE, Virginia Tech (Advisor: Prof. A. Lynn Abbott).
Aug 2021- Started my Master's in Science degree in Computer Science at the Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Blacksburg is a really amazing place to be!
June 2021- Completed my Bachelor's degree from Delhi Technological University with a CGPA of 8.78/10.0. Thanks to my friends, professors, mentors, collaborators, and all well-wishers. Special thanks to the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India for sponsoring the program.
May 2021- Defended Bachelor's degree thesis successfully! Graduating very soon!
April 2021- Paper accepted at IJCNN 2021 (CORE A Conference, Shenzhen, China)
December 2020- Received a grant of CHF 500 from CERN for the publication of the project report
November 2020- Finished my work with CERN and UNOSAT! Will be missing amazing people at CERN!
November 2020- Done with my GRE and TOEFL! Gave GRE on 7th Nov 2020 and TOEFL on 24 Nov 2020. Really close to my December deadlines for graduate applications. Suggestion: Give GRE and TOEFL at least 2-3 months prior to your application deadline!
September 2020- Find my interview with DTU Times, the official newsletter of Delhi Technological University
August 2020- Paper accepted at ICONIP 2020 (CORE A Conference, Thailand)
August 2020- Started training with the Council Of Scientific And Industrial Research–Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute (CSIR–CEERI)
July 2020- Started working in Machine Learning Lab, Delhi Technological University for the undergraduate project (Advised by Dr. Anil Singh Parihar)
June 2020- Started Working with CERN and UNOSAT (Advised by Dr. Sofia Vallecorsa and Edoardo Nemni)
April 2020- Selected as CERN Openlab Summer Student out of 1840 applicants (Worldwide Acceptance Rate: <2%)
April 2020- Recipient of Conference Registration Grant from IEEE Computational Intelligence Society to cover the registration fee of paper in IJCNN 2020
March 2020- My paper submitted to IJCNN 2020 got accepted!
March 2020- Received travel grant equivalent to 650 USD from Delhi Technological University to travel to the University of Technology Sydney, Australia in May 2019
Jan 2020- Submitted my first paper to IJCNN 2020 (CORE A Conference, United Kingdom)!
May 2019- Started Working with the Faculty of Engineering and IT, University of Technology Sydney, Australia. Sydney is such a beautiful place! UTS feels like home!
August 2017- Awarded Scholarship by Ministry of External Affairs, India to pursue Bachelor of Technology, Software Engineering at Delhi Technological University, New Delhi, India