Hi there, I’m Ananya, a Research Scientist at Adobe Research working on problems in NLP and Machine Learning, including but not restricted to evaluations, confidence calibration, uncertainity estimation, and AI safety / Responsible AI. Prior to this I completed my PhD at the Department of Computer Science, IIT Madras with the guidance of Dr Mitesh M. Khapra. My PhD thesis titled “Towards Better Evaluation of NLG systems” includes a survey of metrics used for various NLG tasks; their shortcomings such as susceptibility to adversarial attacks / adversarial scenarios and analysis of their formulation for caveats and biases; leveraging large-scale, task-specific pretraining for formulating more generalizable metrics for Dialogue systems that are robust to some of the synthetic perturbations; a perturbation checklist for evaluating various criteria / dimensions of multiple NLG tasks; and evaluation of multilingual models in languages beyond English (specifically Indian languages in the context of Machine Translation). I am grateful to have been supported by Google PhD fellowship and Prime Minister’s Fellowship for Doctoral Research. I have also worked on Reading Comprehension / QA models, Code generation, Phonetic misspellings based on inter-language interferences during my internships.
My research interests include Generative AI and its Evaluation, Adversarial Attacks and Analysis, Interpretability, Human-in-the-loop techniques, Responsible AI (Fairness of models, Societal Implications, Informed usage in applications, etc), and AI for Social Good.
You can reach me at ananyasai[at]adobe[dot]com
News
- 08-01-2026 [Upcoming] Looking for PhD research interns for summer-2026
- 20-07-2025 Attending ACL-25 at Vienna, Austria - paper ‘Language models can subtly deceive without lying: A case study on strategic phrasing in legislation’
- 20-02-2024 AAAI-24 - Presented our paper ‘Closing the gap in the trade-off between fair representations and accuracy’ at Deployable AI workshop.
- 01-02-2024 Google research week at Banglore, India.
- 04-12-2023 Invited as Young Ambassador to particiapte in Global Technology Summit at New Delhi, India.
- 06-12-2023 EMNLP 2023 at Singapore.