Vinti Agarwal

About the Faculty

Vinti Agarwal is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems at BITS Pilani and leads a GraphAI research group at BITS Pilani, India. Prior to this, She worked as postdoctoral researcher at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). She completed Ph.D. in Computer Science from the JawaharLal Nehru University, New Delhi, India and has 7+ years teaching/research experience and has co/supervised 25+ undergraduate, postgraduate and PhD students at NTNU Norway and BITS Pilani. Her research expertise lies in modelling complex data relationships into graphs and using machine learning for predictions or discovering new patterns in data coming from a variety of sources, e.g., social networks, drug repurposing, social determinants of health (SDH), etc. She has published widely in peer- reviewed journals with 10+ peer-reviewed publications and teaches a postgraduate course on graph mining.

Application areas:

• Recommender systems
• Natural language processing
• DarkWeb analytics
• Computer vision
• Medical imaging

Experience

Mar 2020-present                  Assistant Professor

                                             Department of Computer Science and Information Systems

                                            Birla Institute of Science and Technology, Pilani, Rajasthan India.

Jan 2018-Dec 2019            Postdoctoral researcher,

                                           Supervisors: Prof. Katrin Franke, Dr. Martin Eian,

                                           Institute for Information and Communication Technology, 

                                           Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Gjovik, Norway. 

 Jan 2016-Dec 2017          Assistant professor,

                                          Department of Computer Science, Maitreyi College, Delhi University, India