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