News

2026
May 2026

Completed mentoring an undergraduate MQP team through the design and development of LEMURS RADAR, a visual analytics dashboard that supports clinicians in identifying and monitoring suicide risk among college students. Work has been submitted to HICSS 2027.

Apr 2026

Options Without Agency paper accepted for publication at FAccT 2026.

Feb 2026

KRONE paper accepted for publication at ICDE 2026.

Feb 2026

Elected to be the president of the Data Science/AI Council at WPI. A student-run organization that builds community by organizing networking events, professional development workshops, research seminars, and collaborative initiatives connecting students, faculty, and industry professionals.

Feb 2026

Presented poster titled "Learning from the Unseen: Unsupervised Anomaly Generation for Improved Anomaly Detection" at North East Database Day 2026. The poster demonstrated my research on improving unsupervised anomaly detection through embedding-guided synthetic anomaly generation for more effective model training.

2025
Sep 2025

Completed summer internship at Nokia Bell Labs where I developed a novel anomaly detection system for multi-agentic AI systems resulting in two patents currently under submission.

Jun 2025

Presented my paper "Agree to Disagree: Robust Anomaly Detection with Noisy Labels" at ACM SIGMOD 2025 in Berlin Germany.

Feb 2025

Awarded 1st place and a travel grant at WPI's Graduate Research Innovation Exchange where I presented a poster highlighting my research on deep learning for anomaly detection.

Jan 2025

Presented a poster titled "Finding Clarity in Chaos: Leveraging Noisy Labels for Superior Anomaly Detection" at the North East Database Day 2025. The poster showcased my research on enhancing anomaly detection by framing it as a learning-from-noisy-labels problem, where anomaly detection is improved through the refinement of noisy pseudo labels.

2024
Dec 2024

Awarded the WPI Data Science Leadership Award. This award recognizes a Data Science graduate student for outstanding leadership in the department, on campus, and beyond.

Sep 2024

Elected to be Vice President of the Data Science/AI Council at WPI.

Sep 2024

Agree to Disagree: Robust Anomaly Detection with Noisy Labels accepted at ACM SIGMOD 2025.

May 2024

Counterfactual Explanation Analytics demo paper accepted at VLDB 2024.

May 2024

Pluto accepted at ACM SIGMOD 2025.

May 2024

Awarded the WPI Data Science Graduate Community Building Award. This award recognizes a Data Science graduate student for outstanding commitment to building community in the department, on campus, and beyond.

May 2024

Successfully Defended Master's Thesis.

Mar 2024

Actionable Recourse for Automated Decisions accepted at FAccT 2024.

2023
Aug 2023

FACET paper accepted to ACM SIGMOD 2023.

2022
Sep 2022

Demonstrated AutoOD at VLDB 2022.

May 2022

AutoOD demo paper accepted to VLDB 2022.

2021
Sep 2021

Began data science M.S./Ph.D. program at WPI.

Aug 2021

Completed data analysis internship at The Hanover Insurance Group.

May 2021

Graduated with a B.S. in Informatics from UMass Amherst magna cum laude.

Apr 2021

Successfully defended undergraduate honors thesis "A simulation model to evaluate alternative strategies for prevention of HIV among the homeless population".

2020
May 2020

Began working as an undergraduate research assistant with Prof. Chaitra Gopalappa.

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