Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval

Dr. Sandeep Kumar is currently a professor at CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore. He recently completed his post-doctoral research at Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in sentiment analysis. He is an associate editor for Springer's Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences (HCIS) journal. He has published more than eighty research papers in various international journals/conferences and attended several national and international conferences and workshops. He has authored/edited seven books in the area of computer science. Also, he has been serving as General Chair of the International Conference on Communication and Computational Technologies (ICCCT 2021, 22, and 23) and the Congress on Intelligent Systems (CIS 2022 and 2023). His research interests include nature-inspired algorithms, swarm intelligence, soft computing, and computational intelligence. Dr. Abdul Khader Jilani Saudagar Abdul Khader Jilani Saudagar received the Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Master of Technology (M. Tech.), and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degrees in computer science and engineering, in 2001, 2006, and 2010, respectively. He is currently working as an Associate Professor with the Information Systems Department, College of Computer and Information Sciences (CCIS), Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University (IMSIU), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He is also the Head of the Intelligent Interactive Systems Research Group (IISRG), CCIS. He has ten years of research and teaching experience at both undergraduate (UG) and postgraduate (PG) level. He was the Principal Investigator of the funded projects from KACST, the Deanship of Scientific Research (IMSIU), and is working as the Principal Investigator for the project titled ``Usage of modern technologies to predict emergence of infectious diseases and to detect outbreak of pandemics'' in grand challenge track, funded by the Ministry of Education, Saudi Arabia. He has published a number of research papers in international journals and conferences. His research interests include artificial image processing, information technology, databases, and web and mobile application development. He is associated as a member with various professional bodies, like ACM, IACSIT, IAENG, and ISTE. He is working as an editorial board member and a reviewer for many international journals. Dr. Muskan Garg Dr. Muskan Garg is working as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota. Prior to Mayo Clinic, she served as Postdoctoral Research Associate at University of Florida. Prior to UFL, she served as Assistant Professor at Computer science and engineering department at Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, India. She has completed her masters and doctorate from Panjab University, Chandigarh. Her previous research work is associated with applied network science in the field of Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing for social media data. In general, she is interested in exploring the domain of causal analysis, semantic relations, and ethics over social media data; and mental health analysis on social media.