It’s official — I just graduated with my Master’s in Computer Science from Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University. 🎓
It’s strange to look back on two and a half years of grad school all at once. The lab nights blur together, the deadlines feel further away than they actually were, and yet every late submission, every paper rebuttal, every conversation with an advisor that reshaped a problem — somehow it all added up to this. Along the way I got to compete in hackathons, TA, work as a research assistant, intern, mentor undergrads, and chase research questions that I’m genuinely proud of. I’m leaving Khoury with more curiosity than I came in with, which I think is the right metric.
Honors I’ll keep with me
A few moments from this stretch I want to remember:
🏆 Graduate Research Award for Outstanding Research from Khoury College. Over the course of the Master’s, I was lucky enough to publish six peer-reviewed papers across ACL, CHI, ISMB, and AIED, spanning education technology, NLP, bioinformatics, AI safety, and accessibility. The award meant more to me because it tied together work that, on the surface, looks scattered — but to me always felt connected.
📜 Laurel and Scroll 100 Award from Northeastern’s Societies of Distinction. Genuinely humbled to be on that list.
🪧 Best Poster Award at Khoury Poster Day for the thesis work.
The thesis
I defended my Master’s thesis on building a cross-domain knowledge aggregation system at the intersection of climate and health — exploring how knowledge graphs and LLMs can be combined to reason across scientific domains that don’t usually talk to each other. A paper from that work was just accepted at ISMB, which feels like the right note to end on.
Massive thanks to my advisors Ayan Paul, Benjamin Gyori, Vito Quaranta, and Auroop Ganguly for trusting me with hard problems and pushing me when I was ready to settle.
Thanks
To the brilliant collaborators I had the privilege of working with — Auroop Ganguly, Benjamin M. Gyori, Ayan Paul, Vito Quaranta, Samuel Scarpino, Ashwin T. S., Rajat Shinde, Manjunath Vanahalli, and Maitraye Das — thank you for the long whiteboard sessions, the honest feedback, and for raising the bar.
To my parents and my sister: none of this happens without you. The sacrifices that got me to a classroom in Boston aren’t lost on me — not for a second.
And to my friends who kept the journey from being lonely — you know exactly who you are. Thank you.
Onto whatever comes next. 🚀