Funded Projects
Joint Co-PI, U of T India Foundation Research Catalyst Grant, Urban Heritage and Social Sustainability: Empowering Kolkata's Idol-Makers through Generative Artificial Intelligence, Total Outlay: INR 15,00,000, equivalent of CAD 23,870 (2025-2026)
Co-PI, Grant from Ministry of Tribal Research, Machine Translation of Indian Tribal Languages, Total Outlay: INR 3,14,00,000, equivalent of US $375K (2024 - 2026)
PI, OpenAI Researcher Access and API Award, Awarded GPT-4 OpenAI Credits for researching fair usage of Large Language Models. Total Outlay: US $7K (2024 - 2025)
PI, BITS Pilani New Faculty Seed Grant: Developing Novel AI-based techniques for assisting Indian Legal System, Total Outlay: INR 20,00,000 (2023 - 2025)
PI, BITS Pilani Sparkle Grant: Generating Actionable Information for Social Welfare Queries using Large Language Models, Total Outlay: INR 2,00,000 (2023 - 2025)
Students
PhD
Chaitra C R (Co-supervising with Dr. Dipanjan Chakraborty)
Danny M (co-supervising with Dr. Aneesh Chivukula and the One Health Trust Team)
Balaji Phani Pranav Padala
Manogna Nadella
Community Service
PC Member/Reviewer for Conferences
I am serving as the Area Chair for the Databases and Data Management Track at ARCS 2025
2025: ACM SIGMOD Availability & Reproducibility
2024: AIML Systems, CoDS-COMAD, CIKM, SIGIR, ACM SIGMOD Availability & Reproducibility
2023: CIDR, CIKM, EACL, WSDM, AIML Systems, ACM SIGMOD Availability & Reproducibility
2022: EMNLP, CIKM, KDD, EDBT, CIDR, ICONIP, COMSYS, AIML Systems, ICON, ACM SIGMOD Availability & Reproducibility
2021: AIML Systems, ICON
2020: ICON
Journal Reviewer
2023: Information Processing and Management, Data Science and Engineering
2020, 2019: Expert Systems Journal