About me

I am a Research Scientist at National Library of Medicine (NLM), National Institutes of Health (NIH) working on biomedical NLP. Previously, I was a postdoctoral research fellow at NLM under the supervision of Dr. Dina Demner-Fushman. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India, in 2020.

My research interests include multimodal learning, natural language processing, and deep learning with an emphasis on question answering and summarization for clinical decision making and education. I have also worked on question answering and text generation in multilingual and code-mixed settings.

Recent News

• We organized the shared task on Medical Video Question Answering in Bio-NLP, ACL 2022.
• Our paper “Question-aware transformer models for consumer health question summarization” has been accepted in Journal of Biomedical Informatics.
• Our paper “Towards Developing a Multilingual and Code-Mixed Visual Question Answering System by Knowledge Distillation” has been accepted to be appear in Findings of EMNLP 2021.
• Our paper “Reinforcement Learning for Abstractive Question Summarization with Question-aware Semantic Rewards” has been accepted to be appear in ACL 2021.
• Our paper “Reinforced Multi-task Approach for Multi-hop Question Generation” has been accepted to be appear in COLING 2020.
• Our paper “A Semi-supervised Approach to Generate the Code-Mixed Text using Pre-trained Encoder and Transfer Learning” has been accepted to be appear in Findings of EMNLP 2020.
• Our paper “A Unified Framework for Multilingual and Code-Mixed Visual Question Answering” has been accepted to be appear in AACL-IJCNLP 2020.