Dr. Sanjana Mallikarjun Kavatagi

Dr. Sanjana Kavatagi is an academician and researcher with expertise in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, and Deep Learning. Her research primarily focuses on low-resource and code-mixed languages, with special emphasis on hate speech detection, sentiment analysis, fake news identification, and the application of Large Language Models (LLMs) for social media text analysis. She is actively involved in corpus development and computational linguistics research for Dravidian languages, particularly Kannada-English code-mixed text.

She has contributed to several research publications in reputed international journals and conferences and has been actively engaged in interdisciplinary research involving NLP, generative AI, and explainable AI. Her current research interests include transfer learning, small language models, prompt engineering, multilingual NLP, and AI-driven solutions for real-world societal challenges.