CV

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 2017
- Thesis: Modeling User Factors in Multimedia Preferences
- Advisor: Prof. Weisi Lin
B.E. (Hons) in Computer Science, BITS-Pilani, India 2013
- Thesis: Analysis and Detection of Security and Privacy Threats in P2P Networks using Machine Learning
- Advisor: Prof. Chittaranjan Hota

Associate Professor (Research), University of Pennsylvania.
- Computer and Information Science
- Annenberg School of Communication
- July 2025 – now
Assistant Professor (Research), University of Pennsylvania.
- Computer and Information Science
- May 2020 – June 2025
Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics.
- June 2020 – present
Research Scientist, University of Pennsylvania.
- at Centre for Digital Health
- September 2018 – present
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Pennsylvania.
- at World Well-Being Project and Centre for Digital Health
- Working on social media research in building user level prediction models by looking at correlations between multiple modalities (text and images) with psychological traits (personality) and health outcomes.
- April 2017 – August 2018
Visiting Scholar, University of Pennsylvania.
- at World Well-Being Project, Penn Positive Psychology Center
- Built user-level personality prediction models based on Images people post and like on Twitter.
- August 2016 – April 2017
Research Intern, Panasonic R&D, Singapore.
- Deep Learning Framework for Facial Action Unit Recognition
- January 2016 – June 2016

Appointed Member to the National Advisory Council on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NACMHD) Working Group to Review the Division of Community Health and Population Science (DCHPS).
Best Reviewer Award, AAAI ICWSM 2022
Intel Invent50 Finalist: Personalized tourist hotspot recommender system based on Intel RealSense technology.
ACM Multimedia Travel Grant: Travel grant from ACM to attend Multimedia 2015 Conference in Brisbane, Australia for presenting our works on a) investigating the influence of personality on multimedia quality and enjoyment; and b) automatic personality modeling based on users’ selfies
Nanyang Engineering Doctoral Scholarship: Given to 6 out of 100+ incoming graduate students at NTU Singapore