I am a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Colorado Boulder, where I am advised by Maria L. Pacheco. I am affiliated with the Boulder Language and Social Technologies research group and the wider Boulder NLP community.
Before starting my Ph.D., I completed my master’s degree at CU Boulder, where I was advised by Katharina von der Wense as part of the NALA group.
Research Interests
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Narrative Understanding: My primary research interest lies at the intersection of natural language processing and computational discourse. I work on developing computational models and representations that capture the structural and contextual properties of narratives, stories, and discourse, enabling automated analysis and understanding of complex narrative phenomena at scale.
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Knowledge Discovery: I also focus on knowledge induction and retrieval from large scale text corpora. I develop computational approaches to systematically extract implicit knowledge structures – including causal, temporal, and social relationships – that can be leveraged for broader knowledge base construction and information synthesis.
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Low-Resource Languages: In the recent past, my work has centered around creating tools designed for low-resource languages. I’ve developed models that incorporate explicit linguistic information to enhance performance in downstream tasks such as machine translation and coreference resolution.
News
| Apr 2025 | Awarded the Departmental Summer Research Fellowship. |
| Sep 2024 | Our work on framing through the lens of event-centric narratives was accepted to the Workshop on Narrative Understanding, co-located with EMNLP 2024. |
| May 2024 | Received the M.S. in Computer Science degree from CU Boulder. |
| Jan 2024 | Transferred to the Computer Science Ph.D. program at CU Boulder. |
| Oct 2023 | Our work on language to logic translation for verifying tax prep software was accepted to the Workshop on Natural Legal Language Processing, co-located with EMNLP 2023. |
| Sep 2023 | Our work in progress on narrative modeling and framing analysis was accepted as a poster at Text as Data (TADA) 2023. |
| Apr 2023 | Awarded the Lloyd Botway Fellowship. |
| Nov 2022 | Awarded the CS Endowed Founder's Fellowship. |
| Last Updated: July 2025 | rohandas14 |