I am a 2nd year PhD student in the Department of Statistics at Rutgers University, working with Prof. Gemma Moran. 

Prior to this, I was working as a Data Scientist at Accenture Data & AI, where I was involved in developing forecasting models in retail domain using relevant analytical and statistical tools.

I graduated with a Masters in Statistics from University of Hyderabad, India securing Gold Medal for academic excellence, and a Bachelors in Statistics from Lady Brabourne College, University of Calcutta, India.

Research Interests

I am interested in:

• deep generative models, specifically variational autoencoders and diffusion models,
• latent variable modeling,
• model criticism,
• causal representation learning.

Relevant Coursework at Rutgers

• [Fall 2024 - Spr 2025] Theory of Probability, Theory of Statistics, Advanced Applied Statistics 
• [Fall 2025] Advanced Probability Theory, Trustworthy Statistical Learning 
• [Spr 2026] Optimization for Data Science 

Work Experience

• [2021 - 2024] Data Scientist Senior Analyst, Accenture, Data & AI, India 
• [2020 - 2021] Associate Data Scientist, Core Compete (acquired by Accenture AI), India 
• [Summer 2019] Data Science Intern, Core Compete, India