Akanksha Mishra, Sharad Sinha and Clint P George, Shielding Against Online Harm: A Survey on Text Analysis to Prevent Cyberbullying (Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence 2024)
I am a fourth year PhD student at IIT Goa advised by Dr. Clint Pazhayidam George. My PhD is supported through MHRD. I am currently working on feature selection using deep latent variable models on cancer genome dataset. Additionaly, I also work on social media analysis particularly text analysis using Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval techniques.
Prior to joining PhD, I worked as a research assistant under the guidance of Dr. Sukomal Pal at IIT Bhu. Also, I worked as a Teaching Fellow/Co-Instructor at IIIT Delhi.
Education
| PhD | IIT Goa (Pursuing) |
| MTech | IIIT Delhi (2015) |
| BTech | UPTU, Lucknow (2012) |
Employments
| 2018-2019 | Research Assistant, IIT (BHU) Varanasi |
| 2017 | Teaching Fellow / Co-instructor, IIIT Delhi |
| 2015-2016 | Assistant Profressor, BML Munjal University |
| 2015 | Research Associate and Member, Software Analytics Lab, IIIT Delhi |
Research
Recent News
| September 2024 | Awarded a travel grant to attend IndoML 2024 at BITS Pilani Goa to be held on 21-23 December 2024. |
| March 2024 | Published an article titled “Shielding Against Online Harm: A Survey on Text Analysis to Prevent Cyberbullying” in Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence Journal. This is a joint work with Sharad Sinha and Clint P George, IIT Goa. |
| October 2023 | Awarded a travel grant to attend IndoML 2023 at IIT Bombay to be held on 21-23 December 2023. |
| September 2023 | Talk on "Deep learning based models for feature selection in cancer genomics" in Research Scholars' Confluence held at IIT Goa on Sep 2, 2023. |
| July 2022 | Awarded a participation grant (virtual pass) to attend the Thirty-ninth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), July 17--23, 2022. |
| June 2022 | Talk and poster presentation on “Deep Learning and Probabilistic Approaches for Cancer Genomics” in workshop “The role of AI in transforming healthcare”, June 11--12, 2022, Goa, India. The workshop was jointly organized by Translational Health Science Technology Institute (THSTI), University of Oxford and Centre for Integrative Biology and Systems medicine (IBSE), IIT Madras. |
| April 2022 | Accepted as a volunteer and awarded a participation grant to attend the Tenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), April 25--29, 2022. |
| March 2022 | Accepted as a volunteer and awarded a participation grant to attend the Twenty-fifth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), March 28--30, 2022. |
Publications
Harshit Mehrotra, Akanksha Mishra and Sukomal Pal, A Multi-stage Classification Framework for Disaster-Specific Tweets (SN Computer Science 2022)
Akanksha Mishra and Sukomal Pal, IIT BHU at TREC 2019: Incident Streams Track, The Twenty-Eighth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2019)
Akanksha Mishra and Sukomal Pal, IIT-BHU at CIQ 2019: Classification of Insincere Questions, 11th meeting of Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (FIRE 2019)
Akanksha Mishra and Sukomal Pal, IIT Varanasi at HASOC 2019: Hate Speech and Offensive Content Identification in Indo-European Languages, 11th meeting of Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (FIRE 2019)
Akanksha Mishra, Rajesh Kumar and Sukomal Pal, Language Independent Automatic Framework for Entity Extraction in Indian Languages, 10th meeting of Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (FIRE 2018)
Akanksha Mishra and Richa Sharma, Enriching Frame-based Structured Representations for Requirements using Case Frames - An Approach Towards Handling Incompleteness in Informal Requirements, 12th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering (ENASE 2017)
Sunil Gupta, Akanksha Mishra and Mukesh Chawla, Analysis and Recommendation of Common Fault and Failure in Software Development Systems, Advancement of Artificial Intelligence in Communication & Signal Processing in IEEE (SCOPES 2016)
Akanksha Mishra and Ashish Sureka, Graph Matching Based Approach for Inconsistency Detection between BPMN Business Process Models and SBVR Rules, Third International Conference on Mining Intelligence and Knowledge Explorations (MIKE 2015)
Services
- Volunteer, ICML 2022
- Volunteer, ICLR 2022
- Volunteer, AISTATS 2022
- Invited Reviewer, IRIA 2021
- Invited Subreviewer, LOD 2021
- Teaching Assistant for a national level course “AI Shiksha - Introduction to Machine Learning” organized as part of National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) 2021
- Vice chair, IIT Goa ACM Student Chapter (2021-)
- Hostel Secreatary (2018-2019)
- Volunteer, Research Showcase, IIIT Delhi, 2014 & 2015
- Mentor of Coding Events
- Members: CSI, ACM, IEEE
Accomplishments
- Fellowship grant for attending ICML 2022
- Fellowship grant for attending ICLR 2022
- Fellowship grant for attending AISTATS 2022
- Fellowship grant for attending NeurIPS 2021
- Travel grant for attending CODS-COMAD 2020 Conference at ISB Hyderabad
- Travel grant for FIRE 2019 at ISI Kolkata
- Qualified UGC-NET (2018)
- Qualified GATE (2013)
Teaching
TA
| Course | Institute | Semester |
|---|---|---|
| Probability and Statistics | IIT Goa | Autumn 2024 |
| Software Tools | IIT Goa | Spring 2024 |
| Introduction to Computing | IIT Goa | Autumn 2023 |
| Artificial Intelligence | IIT Goa | Autumn 2020, 2021, 2022 |
| Machine Learning | IIT Goa | Spring 2021, 2022 |
| Computer Programming | IIT Bhu | Spring 2019, Autumn 2019 |
| Database Management Systems | IIT Bhu | Autumn 2018 |
Co-Instructor
| Course | Institute | Semester |
|---|---|---|
| System Programming | IIIT Delhi | Monsoon 2017 |
| Advanced Programming | IIIT Delhi | Monsoon 2017 |
| Data Structures and Algorithms | IIIT Delhi | Winter 2017 |
| Fundamentals of Database Systems | IIIT Delhi | Winter 2017 |
| Data Structures and Algorithms | BML Munjal University | Monsoon 2016 |
| Computer Programming | BML Munjal University | Winter 2016 |
| Mobile Application Development | BML Munjal University | Monsoon 2015 |
| Innovations and Trends in Computing | BML Munjal University | Monsoon 2015 |