Artificial Intelligence, Language Models, NLP, Semantic Web, Neuro-Symbolic AI

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Experience :
Aug 2013 – Present:    Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Applications, National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra.
Jul 2011 –Aug 2013:   Associate Professor, Department of Computer Application, Bharat Institute of Technology, Meerut.
Jul 2009 – Jun 2011:    Assistant Professor (Computer Science) at Department of Computer Science, ABSS Institute of Technology, Meerut.
Feb 2005 – Jun 2009:  Lecturer (Computer Science) at Department of Computer Application, CCS University, University Campus, Meerut.
Aug 2002 – Oct 2004: Lecturer (Computer Science) at Meerut Institute of Engineering and Technology (MIET), Meerut.
Jun 2001 – Aug 2002: Lecturer (Computer Science) at Shaheed Rajguru College of Applied Sciences for Women, University of Delhi, Delhi.

RESEARCH FUNDING & PATENTS (Total Research Funding: ₹1.3 crores (~155,000 USD))

Sponsored Research Projects

Principal Investigator

• Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF) – PAIR Programme: ₹50 Lakhs | September 2025 – September 2030 | Ongoing
  “Semantic and Explainable AI Framework for Antimicrobial Resistance”, Part of PAIR Network: SAKSHAM
• Department of Science and Technology (DST) – IHUB-ANUBHUTI-IIITD: ₹30 Lakhs | September 2021 – August 2025 | Completed
  “Multilingual and Culturally Customized Legal Knowledge Processing and Management”, Funded under NM-ICPS scheme
• Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO): ₹40.52 Lakhs | May 2016 – August 2018 | Completed
  “Intelligent Real-time Situation Awareness and Decision Support System for Indian Defense”

Co-Principal Investigator

• TEQUIP-III – CRIS: ₹2.58 Lakhs | July 2019 – June 2020 | Completed
  “A Digital Health Advisor in the Domain of Depression Patients”, Implementing Institute: Biju Patnaik University of Technology, Odisha

Project Mentor

• NIT Kurukshetra – Student Research Project: ₹35,000 | July 2017 – June 2018 | Completed
  “Search and Rescue VTOL Aircraft”, Students: Anuj Gupta, Nishant Kumar, Umang Agarwal

Workshop & Capacity Building Grants

• E&ICT Academy, IIT Guwahati: ₹2 Lakhs | 26-30 May 2025, Five-day workshop: NyAI 2025, AI-powered Justice, NIT Kurukshetra
• MeitY, Government of India: Fully Funded | 18-29 Aug 2025, Two-week Online Joint Faculty Development Programme on “AI for Teaching and Learning” jointly organized by E&ICT Academies
• IHUB Anubhuti, IIIT Delhi (Partial Sponsorship): ₹2 Lakhs | 6-10 November 2023, Five-day workshop: NyAI 2023, AI-powered Justice, NIT Kurukshetra
• AICTE ATAL Academy: ₹2.79 Lakhs Total | 2020 – 2021, Coordinated three Faculty Development Programmes
• MHRD – GIAN Programme: ₹5  Lakhs | 18-23 December 2017, Short Course: Secure Information Technology, Foreign Faculty: Dr. Atef Shalan, Alderson Broaddus University, USA
• NMEICT, MHRD: ₹69,739 | May-June 2014, ISTE Main Workshop on Computer Programming, IIT Bombay

INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH INTERNSHIPS HOSTED

DAAD RISE Worldwide Programme (Germany): Supervised 4 German research interns (2016-2018), fully funded:

• 1st August 2018 to 31st Oct 2018: Ms. Anastasiia Kysliak, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen | Project Title: A Multilingual Semantic Web Portal
• 1st August 2017 to 31st Oct 2017: Ms. Valerie Meyer, University of Osnabrück | Project Title: Rule-based Intelligence on the Web
• 24th July 2017 to 8th October 2017: Mr. Jorrit Natterbrede, University of Osnabrück, Germany | Project Title: Hybrid Reasoning in Semantic Web.
• 1st August 2016 to 31st Oct 2016: Mr. Jan Wagner, RheinMain University of Applied Sciences | Project Title: Intelligent Decision Support System.

Patents

• Bharti Sharma, Sarika Jain, Sakshi Patni, Rajni (December 2025). “Portable Federated Learning Gateway Device”, Indian Patent Application No. 483159-001 [Filed]
• Sarika Jain, Taha Sadikot (2026). “Hierarchical Multi-Threaded Conversational AI System with Selective Knowledge Propagation”, Indian Patent Application No, 202611007787 [Filed]
• Sarika Jain, Archana Patel (November 2019). “Method and System for Creating Ontology of Knowledge Units in a Computing Environment”, Application No. 201911046886 [Awaiting Final Disposal]

AWARDS AND RECOGNITION

Best Faculty Award in Teaching Category (₹10,000), conferred by Padma Shree Dr. Satish Kumar, Director, NIT Kurukshetra, September 5, 2019

Best Paper Awards

• Sarika Jain, Pooja Harde, Nandana Mihindukulasooriya. “NyOn – A Multilingual Modular Legal Ontology for Representing Court Judgments”. International Semantic Intelligence Conference (ISIC 2022), Georgia Southern University, USA, May 2022.
• Ashish Basantani, Yash Kesarvani, Srishti Bhatia, Sarika Jain. “Emocure: Utilizing Social Media and Smart Phones to Predict and Cure Depression”. International Conference on Data Science, ML, and Blockchain Technology, Mysuru, India, February 2021.
• Ambrish Kumar Mishra, Archana Patel, Sarika Jain. “Impact of Covid-19 Outbreak on Performance of Indian Banking Sector”. International Semantic Intelligence Conference (ISIC 2021), Delhi, India, February 2021.
• Archana Patel, Sarika Jain. “A Semi-Automatic Approach to Diagnose the Daily Life Queries”. AICTE Sponsored National Conference (NGCTND 2020), ITS Ghaziabad, August 2020.
• Shama Sharma, Sarika Jain. “Comparison Study of Semantic Search Engines with Conventional Search Engines”. First International Science Conference in Indian Languages, NIT Kurukshetra, August 2017.

DOCTORAL SUPERVISION

Awarded (7 Ph.D.s – 100% Placement in Academia/Industry)

• Dr. Sonia Mehla (2016-2025, Part-time) | Thesis: “Modeling Data with Graphs for Human-like Reasoning and Situation Awareness”
  Current: PGT Computer Science (HES-II) Sec. Edu. Haryana
• Dr. Abhisek Sharma (2019-2025) | Thesis: “Advancing Knowledge Representation and Reasoning: A Semantics-based Approach”
  Current: Assistant Professor, IILM University, Gurugram (AI/ML Research Engineer, iiterate Technologies GmbH, Germany)
• Dr. Sumit Sharma (2018-2024) | Thesis: “Leveraging Semantic Technologies for Healthcare Data Integration and Human-like Reasoning”
  Current: Assistant Professor, Quantum University, Roorkee
• Dr. Sumit Dalal (2024) | Thesis: “Neuro-Symbolic AI for Explainable Depression Detection from Social Media Data”
  Current: Assistant Professor, Bennett University, Noida
• Dr. Sonika Malik (2015-2022) | Thesis: “An Approach for Ontology Cost Estimation and Knowledge-infused Text Classification using Hybrid AI”
  Current: Assistant Professor, MSIT, IP University, Delhi
• Dr. Archana Patel (2017-2020) | Thesis: “Effective Ontology Mapping and Personalized Behavior with Comprehensive Knowledge Structure”
  Current: Assistant Professor, NFSU Delhi (Former Postdoc, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)
• Dr. Sanju Mishra (2013-2019, TMU Moradabad) | Thesis: “An Ontology Approach for Unstructured Data”
  Current: Professor, Sharda University (Former Postdoc, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)

Current Doctoral Students (6)

• Pawan (2026-present): Interpretable AI for High-Stakes Decision Support
• Sanjaya (2026-present): Antimicrobial Resistance Decision Support
• Monika (2025-present): Quantum Support Vector Machine
• Shama Sharma (2024-present): A Knowledge-Infused Interpretable Framework for Software Vulnerability Detection
• Lavi Arora (2024-present): NeuroSymbolic AI for Explainable Mental Health Assessment
• Satender Kumar (2023-present): Resource Management in Serverless Environments

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

• ACL (Association for Computational Linguistics) – Member (December 2025 onwards)
• IEEE – Senior Member (October 2020 onwards)
• ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) – Member (2014 onwards)
• CSI (Computer Society of India) – Life Member (2014 onwards)
• IACSIT (International Association of Computer Science and Information Technology) – Member (2014 onwards)
• IAENG (International Association of Engineers) – Member, Society of Artificial Intelligence & Society of Computer Science (2014 onwards)

ADMINISTRATIVE LEADERSHIP & SERVICE

Institutional Governance & Policy

• Faculty In-charge, Physical Education & Sports, NIT Kurukshetra (July 2022 – June 2025)
• Member, Advisory Committee – IPR Cell, NIT Kurukshetra (September 2022 – June 2025)
• Member, Proctorial Board / Co-convener, Discipline Committee (Multiple terms, 2022 – Present)
• Member, Departmental Committees – DAC, DPC, BOS (2015 – Present); DRC (2015-2024)

Campus Management & Student Welfare

• Deputy Chief Warden, NIT Kurukshetra (July 2022 – June 2024)
• Warden, Cauvery Bhawan Girls’ Hostel (June 2017 – May 2019)
• Deputy Centre In-charge, NIMCET National Counseling (Active cross 2014 – 2021)
• Faculty In-charge, Mexperts PG Society (2014 – 2024):

Lab & Infrastructure Development

• Institutional Funding: Conceptualized and executed the end-to-end setup (need assessment, technical specification, and installation) of the Departmental Research Lab and Lab 3.
• External Project Funding: Established a high-performance Project Lab equipped with a rack server, centralized Network Attached Storage (NAS), online UPS power banks, and multi-user MATLAB environments.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE & INTERNATIONAL ENGAGEMENT

General Chair of Conference

• International Semantic Intelligence Conference (ISIC): General Chair for ISIC 2025 (University of Lübeck, Germany), ISIC 2023 (University of Minho, Portugal), ISIC 2022 (Georgia Southern University, USA), ISIC 2021 (MERI Delhi, India)
• International Health Informatics Conference (IHIC): General Chair for IHIC 2023 (MERI Delhi), IHIC 2022 (Sri Sri University, Cuttack, Orissa)
• International EdTech Conference: General Chair, NFSU Gujarat, India (2023)

Workshop Organizer

• Co-organizer, JUST-NLP Workshop (Workshop on NLP for Empowering Justice) with IJCNLP-AACL 2025, Mumbai, India (December 2025)
• Convener, NyAI Workshop Series (AI-powered Justice): NIT Kurukshetra (May 2025, November 2023)
• Chairman, Technical Committee, National IT Challenge for Youth with Disabilities (NITC), Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment, Government of India (Four years consecutively: 2016-2019)
• Convener, Hands-on workshop on “IT/ITES Skill Development” organized by Hostels, NIT Kurukshetra (December 26-30, 2023)
• Convener, Workshop on “Personality Development and Life Skills” organized at Girls Hostels, NIT Kurukshetra (April 03-07, 2023)

Other Conference Roles

Publication Chair: ICACCT 2019 (NIT Kurukshetra), ICECCS 2016 (MANIT Bhopal) | Program Chair: EWAD 2017 (Belgium) | Session Chair: MCSoC 2020, ICACCT 2019, ICSCC 2017

International Collaborations and Visits Abroad

Active research collaborations with leading researchers from prestigious institutions worldwide: Purdue University (Prof. Bharat Bhargava) • University of Maryland Baltimore County (Prof. Manas Gaur) • University of Lübeck, Germany (Prof. Sven Groppe) • University of Oklahoma (Prof. Le Gruenwald) • AI Institute, University of South Carolina (Prof. Amit Sheth) • IIT Kharagpur (Prof. Saptarshi Ghosh) • IIT Kanpur (Prof. Ashutosh Modi) • University of Melbourne, Australia (Prof. Rajkumar Buyya) • University of Arad, Romania (Prof. Valentina Emilia Balas) • Western Sydney University, Australia (Prof. San Murugesan)

Visited in person: Oxford University (London, UK), National Technological University (Singapore), University of Sharjah (Dubai, UAE), Kansai University (Osaka, Japan) to present research work.