OUR TEAM
Faculty
Dr. Md. Shad Akhtar
Assistant Professor
Ph.D, IIIT Delhi
Ph.D Students
Abdullah Mazhar
Joined: December, 2023
Research: AI in Healthcare
Zeba Afroz
Joined: December, 2023
Research: Propaganda Analysis
Aditya Bhardwaj
Joined: October, 2024
Research: AI in Healthcare
Abhishek Singh Yadav
Joined: July, 2025
Research: Deception Analysis
Research Associates
Rajnandini Pujari
Joined: December, 2024
Research: COIL-D (Liasion Officer)
Atai Waris Khan
Joined: July, 2025
Research: COIL-D (Technical)
Meena Sharma
Joined: January, 2025
Research: COIL-D (Linguistics)
Vaishnavi Raikar
Joined: January, 2025
Research: COIL-D (Linguistics)
Siddhi Kerkar
Joined: January, 2025
Research: COID-D (Linguistics)
Nazia Akhtar
Joined: December, 2024
Research: COIL-D (Linguistics)
Samshul Arfin
Joined: January, 2025
Research: COIL-D (Linguistics)
Izza Moin
Joined: December, 2024
Research: COIL-D (Linguistics)
Prakash Tejwani
Joined: March, 2025
Research: COIL-D (Linguistics)
M. Tech Students
Harsh Vardhan
Joined: July, 2025
Research: Detecting persuasion intensity in propagandistic content.
Sejal Yadav
Joined: July, 2026
Research: Meme Causality
B. Tech Students
- Sarthak Bhudolia -- Research: Exploring Intent in Propaganda
- Hitesh Bhat -- Research: Free-Text Narrative Identification in Propaganda
- Nikhil Agrawal -- Research: Intent Transition failure
- Shivi Goel, Divyanshi -- Research: Controlled (Speech-to-speech) Machine Translation
- Kanupriya Gupta -- Research: Toxicity in Postpartum cases
- Ashotush Prasad -- Research: Analysis of Dyslexic Posts on Reddit
- Akshit Bansal -- Research: Deceptive LLM
- Ammar Khakhryawala -- Research: KG-Driven Hallucination Mitigation in Health Domain
- Kushagra Agrawal -- Research: Evidence-utilisation behaviour of biomedical RAG systems
Alumni
- Aseem Srivastava (PhD) -- Research: AI in Mental-Health
- Megha Sundriyal (PhD) -- Research: Misinformation and Claims
- Shivam Kumar (MSR) -- Research: Automatic Speech Recognition for Indian Languages.
- Sourav Chakraborty (M.Tech) -- Research: Reasoning in LLM.
- Ayush Agarwal (M.Tech) -- Research: Assessing Trust in Mental Health Counseling Conversation (TCS Research)
- Akshara Nair (M.Tech) -- Research: Incongruence Identification in Eyewitness Narratives (Natwest)