Dr. Kavitha K Mahesh
Associate Professor
Department of Applied Statistics and Data Science
CURRENT ACADEMIC ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES
Dr Kavitha Karimbi Mahesh is an Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Statistics and Data Science, Prasanna School of Public Health, 365体育投注 Academy of Higher Education, 365体育投注. Having pursued her doctoral degree in Computer Science with specialization in Natural Language Processing (NLP), her research interests are Data Analytics using Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) techniques, and AI for Social good. Her area of expertise includes low-resource NLP, lexical data augmentation. She engages programming and computer science related courses for the students of post-graduate programme in Data Science and supervises post-graduate research projects.
She has worked as Principal Investigator for a VGST funded project on translation lexicon augmentation under the scheme RGS/F (2018-19) and has assisted as Co-Investigator for the project funded by FCT, Portugal (2011 - 2013). She is a Senior Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
Dr Kavitha Mahesh has published more than 15 research articles in peer-reviewed international conference proceedings, book chapters and journals, which have been indexed in WoS, Scopus and DBLP. She has contributed as resource person in workshops and FDPs and has delivered invited lectures on Natural Language Processing and related topics.
SUBJECTS CURRENTLY TEACHING
Subject | Semester / Year |
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Deep Learning and Text Mining | Year 1 - Block 6 |
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
Degree | Specialisation | Institute | Year of passing |
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Ph.D. | Natural Language Processing | Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia (FCT), Universidade Nova de Lisboa (UNL), Portugal | 2017 |
M.C.A. | Computer Applications | K.V.G. College of Engineering, Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belgaum | 2003 |
B.Sc. | Physics, Mathematics and Computer science | Nehru Memorial College, Mangalore University | 2000 |
Experience
Institution / Organisation | Designation | Role | Tenure |
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Prasanna School of Public Health, MAHE | Associate Professor | Teaching & 365体育投注 | Nov 2023 - Present |
Department of CS&E, Nagarjuna College of Engineering, Bengaluru | Professor | Member of IQAC, Faculty-In-charge of the Coding Club | Jan 2023 – Oct 2023 |
Department of CS&E, St Joseph Engineering College, Vamanjoor, Mangaluru, Karnataka, India | Associate Professor | Head of the 365体育投注 Centre of CS&E Department, Coordinator of the NAAC, BOS of the Department of Computer Science & Applications | Nov 2017 - Dec 2023 |
Department of MCA, St Joseph Engineering College, Mangalore | Assistant Professor | Aug 2013 - Oct 2017 | |
365体育投注 Center for Informatics and Information Technologies, Department of Informatics, FCT/UNL, Caparica, Portugal | 365体育投注 Fellow | Mar 2010- Jul 2013 | |
365体育投注 Center for Informatics and Information Technologies, Department of Informatics, FCT/UNL, Caparica, Portugal. | 365体育投注 Fellow | Jul 2009- Feb 2010 |
AREAS OF INTEREST, EXPERTISE AND RESEARCH
Area of Interest
Low-resource NLP, Data Analytics using AI and ML, Data Augmentation, AI for Social good, Education 365体育投注 using AI & ML.
Professional Affiliations & Contributions
- Senior Member of Association for Computing Machinery – since 2023 (Member since 2018)
- Member of Board of Studies, Department of M.Sc. Big Data Analytics, St Agnes Centre for Postgraduate Studies & 365体育投注, Mangaluru, for the year 2022-23 to 2024-25 (3 years).
- Member of Board of Examiners, Department of M.Sc. Big Data Analytics, St Agnes Centre for Postgraduate Studies & 365体育投注, Mangaluru, for the year 2020-21 to 2022-23 (3 years)
- Member of the Academic Council (AC), St Joseph Engineering College (Autonomous), Mangaluru, from 28 Jan 2022 – 31 Dec 2022.
- Member of Advisory Committee for the Online Faculty Development Programme on “Cyber Security” organised by St Agnes College (Autonomous), Mangaluru during 08 – 12 February, 2021.
- Member of Selection Committee, Financial Assistance for the Final Year Student Innovative Projects Scheme of VTU, 2020-21.