I’m a permanent Assistant Professor / Lecturer-Above-the-Bar in the School of Computer Science at the University of Galway. My research focus recently is on text classification, sentiment analysis, abusive/offensive language detection, topic detection & tracking, trending topic detection, knowledge graphs, creating positivity in social media platforms, machine translation, and multilingualism. I have published multiple international conference papers (COLING, LREC, MTSUMMIT, DSAA, LDK, GWC, AICS, FIRE, etc) and highly reputed journal papers (LRE, CSL, SNAM, JDSA, JDIM, etc)..
I have an h-index of 29, i10-index of 51, and citations of 2,215 from Google Scholar as of July 2022. I have more than 50 refereed publications. I have more than 6 years of experience in working with Artificial Intelligence and Data Science. I received the Best Application Paper Award at DSAA 2020 IEEE an ACM-funded conference. I am organizing multiple shared tasks related to social media text analysis in the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL 2022) and the European Association of Computational Linguistics (EACL 2021). I organized two workshops at EACL 2021 and ACL 2022.
I am editing two special issues of Springer journals and one special issue of Elsevier journal. I am an editorial board member for the Journal of Natural Language Engineering - Special Issue on NLP Approaches to Offensive Content Online (Cambridge University Press). I am continuously working on writing proposals for local and international funding calls (e.g. SFI, IRC, Enterprise Ireland, Horizon Europe, ERC, EU funding) as well as I was the technical lead and expert for solving SMEs AI-NLP-related problems.
Ph.D. (Computer Science and Engineering), September 2016- July 2020
INSIGHT SFI RESEARCH CENTRE FOR DATA ANALYTICS, DATA SCIENCE INSTITUTE, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, GALWAY
Thesis: Leveraging Orthographic Information to improve the Machine Translation of Underresourced Languages https://aran.library.nuigalway.ie/handle/10379/16100
M.Sc. (Computational Science), July 2013- July 2015
INDIAN INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLGY & MANAGEMENT-KERALA, INDIA
GPA: 9.36/10.00 [First Class with Distinction]
Project: Reconstruction of Limit Order Book for NSE (Grade:10.00/10.00).
B.Tech. (Agricultural Information Technology), July 2007- May 2011
TAMIL NADU AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY, COIMBATORE-641003, INDIA
GPA: 8.75/10.00 [First Class Honours]
Project : Exploring potential of Global WRF for Seasonal Climate Prediction (Grade:10.00/10.00)
HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL EXAMINATION, 2006-2007
MCHSS, MADURAI, INDIA
Grade: 80.66 %
Subjects: Tamil, English, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Computer Science.