Education and Recognition

(2022 - Present): Lecturer/Assistant Professor & Ethics Lead, Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
(2023 - Present): Consulting Scientist, Institute of Engineering & Management (IEM), Kolkata, India
(2021 - 2022): Post-doctoral Research Associate, National Centre for Text Mining (NaCTeM), University of Manchester, United Kingdom
(2021 - 2022): NLP Consultant, YoZu (India based EdTech. Startup)
(2017 - 2018): Research Intern, Accenture Technology Labs, India

(2016–2021): Ph.D. in Computer Science, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India
(2014–2016): M.Tech. in Software Engineering, National Institute of Technology Durgapur, India
(2010–2014): B.Tech. in Computer Science & Engineering, Narula Institute of Technology, India

Invited to attend the Frontiers of Science meeting in Artificial Intelligence, organised by the Royal Society (UK) and the Royal Society of Canada, in Ottawa, Canada, February 2024.
Invited as one of the participants in the 10th Heidelberg Laureate Forum, 2023 in Heidelberg, Germany, 2023.
Received ACM India Travel Grant to travel and present a paper entitled "Towards Emotion–aided Multi–modal Dialogue Act Classification" at the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) in July 2020 (virtual).
Received Microsoft Research Travel Grant to travel and present a paper entitled "Exploring Machine Learning and Deep Learning Frameworks for Task–Oriented Dialogue Act Classification" at the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) in Budapest, Hungary, July 2019.