PhD Researcher in Natural Language Processing
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Bhopal
I build reliable NLP systems for misinformation detection, multimodal verification, and LLM-based reasoning. My work spans general fact-checking, multilingual NLP, and vision-language grounding with a strong focus on measurable research impact.
Research Focus
Fact-checking, Multimodal NLP, LLM Reasoning
Recent Venue
WWW 2026 (Web4Good Track)
Current Affiliation
IISER Bhopal
Research Focus
Designing trustworthy NLP pipelines for fact verification across text and multimodal settings.
My research targets robust evidence-aware reasoning in LLMs, with emphasis on entailment-driven verification, multilingual transfer, and multimodal fusion for misinformation-heavy environments.
Publications
Detailed publication entries with venue, year, status, and direct action links.
ARR for the ACL · 2025
Under ReviewGaurav Kumar et al.
Introduces an entailment-centered fact-checking strategy that improves macro-F1 across RAW-FC and LIAR-RAW by strengthening claim-evidence consistency scoring.
The Web Conference (WWW) 2026, Web4Good Track · 2026
AcceptedAditya Kishore*, Gaurav Kumar* et al.
Presents a unified multimodal architecture with relational fusion and contrastive objectives, reporting state-of-the-art weighted F1 (0.84) on Factify 2.
DHOW-MiLLA Workshop, co-located with The Web Conference (WWW) 2026 · 2026
AcceptedDeepesh Gavit, Gaurav Kumar et al.
Evaluates vision-language models across diverse multimodal meme classification tasks and highlights transfer behavior under varying annotation regimes.
Work Experience
Academic research experience with supervisor context and outcome-focused highlights.
IISER Bhopal
Bhopal, India
Supervisor: Dr. Jasabanta Patro, Assistant Professor, Department of Data Science and Engineering
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Bhopal
Bhopal, India
Jawaharlal Nehru University
New Delhi, India
Supervisor: Dr. Aditi Sharan, Associate Professor, School of Computer and Systems Sciences
Projects
Applied systems and prototypes aligned with NLP research objectives.
Research prototype combining linguistic signals and graph structure to detect misinformation and predict propagation links in social media ecosystems.
Entity extraction framework inspired by maximal-clique style reasoning for complex and discontinuous biomedical mentions.
Interactive toolkit for tokenization, POS tagging, chunking, stemming, lemmatization, NER, parsing, and feature extraction with practical visual outputs.
Gallery
Figures and screenshots from ongoing NLP and fact-checking work.
Visualization from misinformation detection and verification workflows used for claim-level analysis.
Representative figure from M.Tech thesis work on adverse drug reaction information extraction.
Practical NLP toolkit UI demonstrating classical preprocessing and feature extraction tasks.
Outreach
Academic engagement through symposium participation, workshops, and community contribution.
symposium
Indian Symposium on Machine Learning (IndoML 2025)
Participant
BITS Pilani Hyderabad, India · 2025
symposium
Indian Symposium on Machine Learning (IndoML 2024)
Participant
BITS Pilani Goa, India · 2024
symposium
Indian Symposium on Machine Learning (IndoML 2023)
Participant
IIT Bombay, India · 2023
workshop
CVIT Summer School
Summer School Participant
IIIT Hyderabad, India · 2023
Academic Community Participation
IndoML Community
2023 - 2025
Contributed to technical discussions and research exchange sessions around current ML and NLP directions.
Open Research and Reproducibility
NLP Research Projects
Ongoing
Maintains transparent experiment reporting and benchmark-focused reproducibility for fact-checking systems.
Volunteer
EMNLP 2025
2025
Contributed as a conference volunteer supporting organization and coordination activities.
Volunteer and Participant
Engineer's Day, IISER Bhopal
13 September 2025
Participated in technical activities and volunteered in organizing events during Engineer's Day celebrations at IISER Bhopal.
Recognition
Competitive achievements and formal training milestones.
GATE Qualification (Computer Science and Engineering)
Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering
2021
Qualified with focus on CS fundamentals and analytical aptitude.
GATE Qualification (Computer Science and Engineering)
Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering
2022
Repeated national-level qualification in Computer Science and Engineering.
JNU Entrance Examination
Jawaharlal Nehru University
2020
Selected for M.Tech in Statistical Computing (Data Science).
Best Teaching Assistant Award
IISER Bhopal
2025
Awarded for outstanding teaching assistance during Aug–Nov 2025 semester.
Research Internship
IIT Kanpur
2018
57-day research internship program.
Python Training
Internshala
2018
6-week structured training in Python programming.
Web Development Training
M.S.M.E
2019
4-week training on web development fundamentals.
Skills
Core NLP, ML, and engineering tools used in day-to-day research and experimentation.
Education
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research
Bhopal, India
CPI: 8.00/10
Jawaharlal Nehru University
New Delhi, India
CPI: 8.2/9
Aryabhatta Knowledge University
Patna, India
CPI: 8.11/10
Contact
Open to research collaboration, NLP engineering opportunities, and academic discussions.