Theoretical Foundations
Probabilistic Graphical Models
Approximate Posterior Inference
Bayesian Nonparametric Statistics
Probabilistic Topic Modeling
Domain Applications
Web Search & Information Retrieval
Natural Language Processing
Social Networks & Urban Human Computing
Learning-to-Rank
Modern Architectures
Word Embeddings
Deep Neural Networks
Multi-modal Machine Learning
August 2024 - Present
Associate Professor (Teaching and Research)
University of Southampton, United Kingdom
May 2022 - July 2024
Lecturer (Teaching and Research)
University of Southampton, United Kingdom
Finalist: Vice Chancellor's Awards 2024 (Teaching)
January 2020 - April 2022
Senior Lecturer in Computer Science and AI
University of Essex, United Kingdom
Awarded: Outstanding Early-Career Researcher 2021
December 2017 - December 2019
Lecturer in Computing
University of Kent, United Kingdom
November 2014 - July 2015
Postdoctoral Fellow
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) / Microsoft Research Asia
August 2009 - July 2014
Ph.D. in Information Systems
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
Thesis: Latent Probabilistic Topic Discovery for Text Documents Incorporating Segment Structure and Word Order.
Finalist: Best Research Awards (entire Hong Kong)
September 2004 - July 2008
Bachelor of Technology in CSE
Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology (SMIT)
Ranked among top 10% | Superb (S) Grade ThesisEditorial Roles
- ▹ Associate Editor: AI Communications
- ▹ Guest Editor: IEEE Trans. on Computational Social Systems
- ▹ Distinguished Review Board: ACM Trans. on the Web (TWEB)
Senior PC Member
- ▹ NeurIPS 2022, 2023
- ▹ AAAI 2024, 2025, 2026
- ▹ ACL 2025, 2026
- ▹ ECAI 2023, 2024, 2025
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