awards

Selected Awards and Distinctions

• Selected as an INAE Young Associate 2024 by the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE).

• Departmental Award for Excellence in Teaching, IIT Bombay, 2024.

• Received C1973 Research Excellence Award, IIT Bombay, 2024.

• Action Editor for the journal Computational Linguistics, 2024.

• Nominated for Best Student Paper Award at Interspeech 2024 for paper titled SALSA: Speedy ASR-LLM Synchronous Aggregation.

• Received ACL 2023 Outstanding Paper Award for paper titled Improving Pretraining Techniques for Code-Switched NLP.

• Invited Speaker at Workshop on Computational Approaches to Linguistic Code-Switching, EMNLP 2023.

• Invited Speaker at ICTS Summer School for Women in Mathematics and Statistics, 2023.

• Invited Speaker at Wiki-M3L workshop at ICLR 2022.

• Invited Speaker at the Workshop on Multilingual Multimodal Learning, ACL 2022.

• Member of Editorial Board for journal “Computer Speech and Language”, 2021.

• Received Best Paper Honorable Mention Award at Workshop on Multilingual Representation Learning (MRL), EMNLP 2021 for paper titled The Effectiveness of Intermediate-Task Training for Code-Switched Natural Language Understanding.

• Nominated for Best Student Paper Award at Interspeech 2021 for paper titled Reduce and Reconstruct: ASR for Low-Resource Phonetic Languages.

• Invited Speaker at Resonance Lecture Series, Journal of the Indian Academy of Sciences (IAS), 2021.

• Best Project Award at Microsoft Research India’s Summer Workshop on Artificial Social Intelligence, 2017.

• Received the Speech and Language Processing Student Paper Award at ICASSP 2016 for the paper titled Adapting ASR for under-resourced languages using mismatched transcriptions.

• Received Best Student Paper Award at Interspeech 2012 for the paper titled Discriminatively learning factorized finite state pronunciation models from dynamic Bayesian networks.