Curriculum Vitae

Job market materials

• Research statementAvailable on request — email me
• Teaching statementAvailable on request — email me
• ReferencesAvailable on request — email me

Education

• 2021 – 2027 (exp.) Cornell University — PhD in Statistics Chair: Martin T. Wells · Advisors: Lionel Levine, Moon Duchin
• 2021 – 2024 Cornell University — Master in Statistics Grade: 3.93 / 4
• 2019 – 2021 Indian Statistical Institute, Bengaluru — Master in Mathematics (M.Math) First Division with Distinction
• 2016 – 2019 Indian Statistical Institute, Bengaluru — Bachelor in Mathematics (B.Math) First Division with Distinction

Internship experience

• Summer 2026 PiTech Impact Fellow (AI Engineering Intern), New York City Council Data Team Advisor: Alaa Moussawi. Built an AI routing system and MCP server for a staff-facing legislative chatbot.
• Summer 2025 Summer Fellow, Data and Democracy Lab, Cornell Brooks School of Public Policy Advisor: Moon Duchin. Developed statistical fairness measures for ranked-choice voting systems.
• Apr – Jun 2020 Statistical Analyst Intern, Siemens Healthineers, Bangalore, India

Awards and honors

• 2026ICML 2026 Silver Reviewer Award
• 2026Cornell Bowers CIS Social Impact and Service Award
• 2026Cornell PiTech Impact Fellowship
• 2025Tapia Conference Travel Award — $1,500, travel to Dallas, Texas
• 2024NSF Travel Award — $500, travel to IISA 2024
• 2024Cornell Graduate School Research Travel Grant — $1,300, for studying ranked-choice elections
• 2021–2022Cornell PhD Graduate Fellowship Awarded to two incoming PhD students
• 2020NBHM Master Scholarship (Government of India)
• 2019All India Rank-33, IIT JAM National-level entrance exam in Mathematical Statistics
• 2019All India Rank-3, M.Stat entrance of ISI National-level entrance exam in Statistics
• 2016–2019ISI Teacher's Award, Indian Statistical Institute Awarded to top 3 students

Conference talks & poster presentations

• Feb 2026Social Choice for AI Ethics and Safety Workshop, IASEAI 2026, Paris, France Invited talk
• Jan 2026Alignment Research Center, Berkeley, CA Invited talk
• Oct 2025Social Choice: Theory and Computation, Wellesley College, MA Poster presentation
• Jul 2025Fairness in Social Choice Workshop, Northwestern University Invited talk
• Jan 2025Joint Mathematical Meeting 2025, Seattle, USA Contributed talk
• Dec 2024IISA 2024, Kerala, India Contributed talk
• Sep 2024Statistics Graduate Student Seminar, Cornell University Invited talk
• Aug 2022Hyundai Vision Conference, Seoul, South Korea Poster presentation

Mentorship & service

• Sep 2025 – PresentResearch Lead, Cornell AI Alignment Club
• Dec 2024Session Chair, IISA 2024
• 2022Professional Development Chair, Statistics Graduate Society, Cornell University Jan – Dec 2022
• 2022Graduate Ambassador, Cornell CIS DEI Jan – May 2022

Academic reviewing (2026)

• ICML 2026
• NeurIPS 2026
• ICML 2026 Pluralistic Alignment Workshop
• AAAI 2027

Skills