I’m a Senior Applied Scientist in Collab AI team of Microsoft. Before this, I was an postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania where I built human-centered AI to promote healthy behaviors. I am grateful to be advised by Dr. Lyle H. Ungar and Dr. Sharath C. Guntuku. I completed Ph.D. from the University of Delhi, India.

News

• [Oct’25] Paper accepted in EMNLP’25 & NeurIPS’25
• [Oct’25] Excited to be featured in Ideas of India podcast.
• [Jan’25] Long paper accepted in NAACL’25.
• [Dec’24] Awarded Leonard Davis Institute grant of USD 19,500 for multimodal depression risk assessment.
• [Aug’24] Awarded PMCRI grant of USD 50,000 to build a chatbot for virtual HPV vaccine counseling.
• [Mar’24] Our research on racial heterogeniety in depression is covered by Thomson Reuters, Philly Voice, Science News, Penn Medicine News, NIDA
• [Mar’24] Long paper accepted in NAACL’24.
• [Jan’24] Our study “Key language markers of depression depend on race” accepted in PNAS.

Contact

✉ sunnyraiphd at gmail.com