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.

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

• NLP in Clinical Data
• 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

• August 2024 received Faculty Acceleration Grant ($50,000) at SMU
• April 2025 ‘20 under 40’ by People Newspaper for reserach impact
• January 2024 received DCII Grant ($32,000) at SMU
• 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