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.

Natural Language ProcessingUnder-resourced LanguagesMultimodal Machine Learning

Natural Language ProcessingMachine LearningMultimodal Machine Learning