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  <p><b>I am pursuing my Ph.D. at the <a href="https://nus.edu.sg" target="_blank">National University of
        Singapore</a>, advised by <a href="https://cde.nus.edu.sg/ece/staff/mohan-gurusamy/" target="_blank">Dr. Mohan
        Gurusamy</a> and <a href="https://www.dinil.net/" target="_blank">Dr. Dinil Mon
        Divakaran</a>. I work in AI security and interpretability, and I am currently interning at <a
        href="https://www.a-star.edu.sg/i2r">A*STAR Institute for Infocomm Research (A*STAR I<sup>2</sup>R),
        Singapore</a></b>. My recent work has focused on knowledge editing and machine unlearning in large language models [<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.19297" target="_blank">ACL'26-Findings</a>, <a
      href="https://openreview.net/pdf?id=IR2GAw90BB" target="_blank">TMLR'26</a>, <a
      href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.17279" target="_blank">arXiv'25</a>], and safety alignment in LLM agents [<a
      href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.29224v1" target="_blank">arXiv'26</a>].</p>

    
  <p>I graduated from <a href="https://www.bits-pilani.ac.in" target="_blank">Birla Institute of Technology and Science,
      Pilani, India</a> with a B.E. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering. Previously, I worked at <a
      href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-in/" target="_blank">Microsoft</a> and <a href="https://flipkart.com"
      target="_blank">Flipkart</a>, and interned at <a href="https://www.sunmobility.com"
      target="_blank">Sun Mobility</a> and <a href="https://draup.com" target="_blank">Draup</a>.</p>

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  My research develops tools for analyzing <b>large-scale social data</b>, aiming to provide a better understanding of <b>social structure and behaviors</b> online while also impacting the <b>design of digital social systems</b>. 
  My recent work has focused on social media algorithms
  [<a href="assets/publications/2024_feedwizard/paper.pdf" target="_blank">ArXiv'24</a>,
  <a href="assets/publications/2023_embedding_societal_values/paper.pdf" target="_blank">JOTS'23</a>],
  reducing political polarization online 
  [<a href="assets/publications/2022_newsbridge/paper.pdf" target="_blank">ICWSM'22a</a>,
  <a href="assets/publications/2022_flipfeed/paper.pdf" target="_blank">ICWSM'22b</a>,
  <a href="assets/publications/2021_balanced_inf_max/paper.pdf" target="_blank">WSDM'21</a>,
  <a href="assets/publications/2018_social_mirror/paper.pdf" target="_blank">WWW'18</a>],
  improving the health of online conversations 
  [<a href="assets/publications/2021_dtox/paper.pdf" target="_blank">WWW'21</a>, 
  <a href="assets/publications/2021_social_catalysts/paper.pdf" target="_blank">CSCW'21</a>], 
  and causal inference in social systems 
  [<a href="assets/publications/2024_ope_lipschitz/paper.pdf" target="_blank">ICML'24</a>,
  <a href="assets/publications/2023_peer_review/paper.pdf" target="_blank">NeurIPS'23</a>,
  <a href="assets/publications/2017_detecting_network_effects/paper.pdf" target="_blank">KDD'17</a>,
  <a href="assets/publications/2019_biometrika/paper.pdf" target="_blank">Biometrika'19</a>]. 
  My research often falls at the intersections of Social Networks, Machine Learning, and Causal Inference.
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  I'm an Assistant Professor in the Information School at the University of Washington.
  Before joining UW, I was a Postdoc at Stanford University, mentored by <a href="https://web.stanford.edu/~jugander/" target="_blank">Johan Ugander</a>.
  I received my Ph.D. from MIT in 2020 under the supervision of Deb Roy. 
  Prior to coming to MIT, I spent one year in Paris and one year in Barcelona doing a M.Sc. in Data mining and Knowledge Management. 
  I got my B.Sc. from Staffordshire University with First Class honors in Computer Science. 
  Throughout my graduate studies, I spent several summers doing internships in industry, including Yahoo! Labs, Amazon, LinkedIn, and Facebook.
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      <span class="date">[May 2026]</span>
      <span>Preprint of <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.29224v1" target="_blank">AgentREVEAL</a> is now available on arXiv.</span>
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      <span class="date">[Apr 2026]</span>
      <span><a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.19297" target="_blank">CLaRE</a> is accepted to <b>ACL
          Findings</b>!</span>
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    <li>
      <span class="date">[Feb 2026]</span>
      <span> I have joined <b>A*STAR Institute for Infocomm Research (<a href="https://www.a-star.edu.sg/i2r">A*STAR
            I<sup>2</sup>R</a>)</b> as a Research Intern!</span>
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    <li>
      <span class="date">[Jan 2026]</span>
      <span><a href="https://openreview.net/pdf?id=IR2GAw90BB" target="_blank">ThinkEval</a> is accepted to
        <b>Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR)</b>!</span>
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      <span class="date">[Jan 2026]</span>
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          target="_blank">Arcane</a> has been accepted to <b>IEEE Transactions on Network and Service
          Management</b>!</span>
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    <li>
      <span class="date">[Jun 2025]</span>
      <span>Preprint of <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.17279" target="_blank">Sleek</a> is now available on
        arXiv.</span>
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      <span class="date">[Jan 2024]</span>
      <span> I have joined <a href="https://nus.edu.sg" target="_blank">NUS</a> as a Ph.D. student!</span>
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    <b>I'm recruiting PhD students to start Fall 2025 at the University of Washington!</b> 
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  <span style="display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 5px">
    I'm looking for students passionate about developing new <u>social media algorithms</u>, both broadly and within the scope of this <a href="https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2403434" target="_blank">NSF grant</a> (collaboration with Stanford and Northwestern). For other examples, please see my recent publications. <br/>
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    Students with strong technical skills and background or interest in social network analysis, machine learning, causal inference, or natural language processing would be a great fit.
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    If you are interested, please apply to the UW iSchool <a href="https://ischool.uw.edu/programs/phd/admissions" target="_blank">PhD program</a> and mention me in your application.
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    If you have any questions, feel free to reach out.
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