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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Knowledge Mobilization: I work on understanding how research knowledge, ideas, and people move across the continuum from fundamental research to practice, particularly in K-12 STEM education. My work focuses on developing human-in-the-loop NLP methods for knowledge discovery, which integrate with network analysis approaches to enable the study of patterns of knowledge diffusion and translation at scale. This work is supported by NSF Award #2530550.
News
| Oct 2025 | Passed my PhD Area Exam. |
| 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: October 2025 | rohandas14 |