News & Accolades

2026

• Co-organizing TrustNLP @ ACL'26, continuing the workshop series on trustworthy NLP.
• Presented Amazon's work on Frontier Safety in AI at IIT Bombay and IIIT Delhi as part of the India AI Summit.

2025

• Winner of the Agent X competition (2025).
• Amazon signed the "Frontier AI Commitments" at the India AI Summit; my team is responsible for building the technical foundation for Amazon's AI offerings under these commitments.
• Co-organized the SemEval Unlearning Challenge at ACL.
• My team leads the Nova AI Challenge, supporting 10 universities annually on safety research.
• Represented Amazon at the Frontier Model Forum and Partnership on AI.

2023

• Invited panelist at AI For Open Society @ KDD'23.

2022

• Invited speaker at FL4NLP @ ACL'22.

2020 and Older

• Best PhD Thesis Pitch Award at USC (2016).
• IEEE Signal Processing Society travel award to ICASSP 2016.
• Winner of the Interspeech Paralinguistics Challenge (2015) — second consecutive win.
• Phi Beta Kappa Alumni in Southern California Scholarship (2015).
• Winner of the Interspeech Paralinguistics Challenge (2013).
• Provost Fellowship at USC (2010–2014).
• Info-USA Exchange Scholarship (2009).