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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Open Domain Knowledge and Scientific 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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Science of Science: 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 in education research products, 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
| Aug 2026 | New work on conceptual metaphor discovery is available as a preprint on ArXiv. |
| Apr 2026 | Our work on narrative schema induction was accepted to ACL 2026. |
| Apr 2026 | Our work on interactive knowledge discovery was accepted to ACL 2026. |
| Oct 2025 | Passed the 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. |
| Last Updated: August 2026 | rohandas14 |