Biography
I am currently a Research Fellow with the Arizona Advanced AI & Innovation (A3I) Hub, Mayo Clinic, AZ. I have worked as a Postdoc at University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston with Dr. Wenjin J. Zheng and Dr. Hua Xu on Biomedical NLP and Knowledge Mining. I earned my PhD from University of Houston under Dr. Rakesh Verma.
My research interests lie in Large Language Modeling and Language Understanding. I am currently working on exploring LLM vulnerabilities in the Biomedical and Clinical Domain. I have previously worked on Biomedical Knowledge Mining and Retrieval as well as Empathetic Conversational Agents for Mental Health Support.
Research Areas: Generative Language Modeling, Information Retrieval, Biomedical NLP, Security Analytics
- Natural Language Generation and Understanding
- Security and Large Language Modeling
- Knowledge Mining and Information Retrieval
PhD, Computer Science, 2020
University of Houston, Houston, TX
BTech, Electronics Engineering, 2014
West Bengal University of Technology, Kolkata, IN
Experience
- Security and Clinical LLMs
- Federated Learning and Critical Findings Retrieval
- Conversational Agents for Psychotherapy and Emotional Support
- Biomedical Literature Mining and Real-time Knowledge Distillation
Awards, Honors and Others
- First Place (DecorateAR), CodeRED Discovery, University of Houston, 2018
- Third Place , CodeRED Exploration, University of Houston, 2017
- Winner (HarveyTrack), Social Track at HackRice 7, Rice University, 2017
- Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2020, 2022
- Grace Hopper Conference for Women in Computing (GHC), 2015, 2016, 2018
- International Workshop on Security and Privacy Analytics (IWSPA), 2017, 2018
- Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing Conference (EMNLP), 2016
- Women in CyberSecurity Conference (WiCyS), 2016, 2017
- Computing Research Association for Women (CRA-W), 2015
