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, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal. 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
Deep Learning and Text Mining Year 1 - Block 6

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

Degree Specialisation Institute Year of passing
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
Prasanna School of Public Health, MAHE Associate Professor Teaching & Research 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 Research 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
Research Center for Informatics and Information Technologies, Department of Informatics, FCT/UNL, Caparica, Portugal Research Fellow Mar 2010- Jul 2013
Research Center for Informatics and Information Technologies, Department of Informatics, FCT/UNL, Caparica, Portugal. Research 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 Research 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 & Research, 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 & Research, 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.