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Biography
Dr. Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi is a Permanent Lecturer Above the Bar in the School of Computer Science at the University of Galway, Ireland, and the Programme Director of the MSc Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence) program. He conducts research in multimodal machine learning, abusive/offensive language detection, bias in natural language processing tasks, inclusive language detection, and multilingualism. He has published papers in highly reputable journals such as Knowledge-Based Systems, LRE, CSL, MTAP, SNAM, JDSA, JDIM, and IJIM Data Insights, as well as in numerous international conferences including ICMI, COLING, LREC, MTSUMMIT, DSAA, LDK, GWC, AICS, and FIRE. Awarded the Best Application Paper Award at DSAA 2020, Dr. Chakravarthi also serves as an Associate Editor for Expert Systems with Applications and is an Editorial Board Member for Computer Speech & Language, Neurocomputing, Neural Networks, and Discover Artificial Intelligence. His extensive service includes acting as Area Chair for EACL 2023, LREC-COLING 2024, COLING 2025, ACL 2025, ICASSP 2026, and ARR 2026, alongside serving as General Chair of SPELLL from 2022 to 2025. He teaches Natural Language Processing at Galway for both the full-time and online MSc Computer Science AI programs. With over 30 journal publications and 200 total publications, he has a demonstrated track record of managing real-world NLP and Agentic AI projects, having supervised numerous postdoctoral researchers and PhD candidates, including four MSc students who received best thesis awards. Dr. Chakravarthi has supervised 42 MSc students and is currently supervising 12 MSc students and 4 PhD students.
Research Interests
Natural Language ProcessingUnder-resourced LanguagesMultimodal Machine Learning
Teaching Interests
Natural Language ProcessingMachine LearningMultimodal Machine Learning
Education/Academic qualification
BTech., M.Sc., PhD
Accepting PhD Students
- Accepting PhD Students
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
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SDG 5 Gender Equality
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SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities
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SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Detecting Hate Speech Towards the LGBT+ Population in Mexican Spanish Using Transformer Architectures
Subburaj, A., Kathiresan, A., Ponnusamy, R., Buitelaar, P. & Chakravarthi, B. R., 2026, Speech and Language Technologies for Low-Resource Languages - 3rd International Conference, SPELLL 2024, Revised Selected Papers. Chakravarthi, B. R., B, B., Rajiakodi, S., García Cumbreras, M. Á., Jiménez Zafra, S. M., Kovács, G., Eger, S., Wahyu Pamungkas, E. & Dobrovoljc, K. (eds.). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, p. 397-407 11 p. (Communications in Computer and Information Science; vol. 2656 CCIS).Research output: Chapter in Book or Conference Publication/Proceeding › Conference Publication › peer-review
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Fuse-MD: A culturally-aware multimodal model for detecting misogyny memes
Ponnusamy, R., Rajiakodi, S., Sivagnanam, B., Kizhakkeparambil, A., Sharma, D., Buitelaar, P. & Raja Chakravarthi, B., Mar 2026, In: Natural Language Processing Journal. 14, 100197.Research output: Contribution to a Journal (Peer & Non Peer) › Article › peer-review
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A Multimodal Approach for Hate and Offensive Content Detection in Tamil: From Corpus Creation to Model Development
Asoka Chakravarthi, B. R., 1 Jan 2025, In: ACM Trans. Asian Low-Resour. Lang. Inf. Process..Research output: Contribution to a Journal (Peer & Non Peer) › Article › peer-review
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Contrastive Learning-Enhanced BERT Models for Hate Speech Detection in Marathi and Telugu
Kayande, D., Ponnusamy, K. K., Kumaresan, P. K., Buitelaar, P. & Chakravarthi, B. R., 24 Jul 2025, FIRE 2024 - Proceedings of the 16th Annual Meeting of the Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation. Ganguly, D., Sanyal, D. K., Majumder, P., Majumdar, S. & Gangopadhyay, S. (eds.). Association for Computing Machinery, p. 48-54 7 p. (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series).Research output: Chapter in Book or Conference Publication/Proceeding › Conference Publication › peer-review
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Do images really do the talking?
Asoka Chakravarthi, B. R., 1 Jan 2025, In: Advances in Computational Intelligence. 5, 1Research output: Contribution to a Journal (Peer & Non Peer) › Article › peer-review
Activities
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ACL 2025-The 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics(External) (External organisation)
Asoka Chakravarthi, B. R. (Member)
22 Jan 2025 → …Activity: Membership › Membership of committee
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Neural Networks (Journal)
Asoka Chakravarthi, B. R. (Editor)
30 Dec 2024 → …Activity: Reviews and editorial work › Reviews and Editorial work
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COLING 2025-The 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics(External) (External organisation)
Asoka Chakravarthi, B. R. (Member)
10 Nov 2024 → …Activity: Membership › Membership of committee
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Neurocomputing (Journal)
Asoka Chakravarthi, B. R. (Editor)
10 Jul 2024 → …Activity: Reviews and editorial work › Reviews and Editorial work
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Prasanna Kumar Kumaresan
Asoka Chakravarthi, B. R. (Primary Supervisor)
2024 → …Activity: Other › Current Postgraduates (Research) Supervised