About Me (Download CV)

I am an Assistant Professor in Department of Computer Science at Southern Methodist University. I did my doctoral research at the Healthy lAIfe Lab, under the advisement of Prof. Rahmatollah Beheshti. I work in the area of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its interdisciplinary applications in healthcare.

I am actively looking for self-motivated students interested in deep learning and natural language processing with applications in healthcare. Please apply to PhD program in Computer Science at Southern Methodist University, if you are interested!

Education

• PhD, Computer Science, University of Delaware, USA, 2018-2023
• ME, Software Engineering, Thapar University, India, 2012-2014
• BE, Computer Engineering, Punjabi University, India, 2006-2010

Research Interests

• Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its interdisciplinary applications in healthcare
• Deep Learning
• Representation Learning
• Predictive modeling with supervised and semi-supervised deep learning models
• Natural Language Processing

News

Medscape Article

• May 2023: Defended PhD Dissertation
• April 2023: Received Frank A. Pehrson Graduate Student Award for Outstanding Computer Science Research
• November 2022: Travel Award to travel to ML4H for poster presentation
• September 2022: Received Dissertation Fellowship
• April 2022: PhD Proposal approved
• April 2022: Travel scholarship to attend CRA-WP in-person in New Orleans
• April 2021: Invited to attend CRA-WP virtually
• November 2020: Gave birth to my daughter