Research

Big Data, AI & NLP

Auburn University, Jan 2020 -- Ongoing, Auburn, AL.

  • Project Annotate: Ad-Hoc Unsupervised Concept Annotation. Information retrieval and Knowledge mining become much easier if data is categorized and annotated precisely. With the rapid growth of Big-data, it is infeasible to perform manual annotation, as it is slow and expensive. Although the area of text annotation is not in the nascent phase, it has not been well-studied from a user-centric point of view, which is the goal of this project.

M.E. Thesis

Jadavpur University, 2015 -- 2018, Kolkata, India.

Title: ADVANCE APPROACH IN FINDING POINT ORDER ON ELLIPTIC CURVE

  • Research area: Cryptography and Network Security

Experience

Research Assistant

Auburn University, May 2020 -- Ongoing, Auburn, AL.

  • Research Assistant at Big Data Intelligence Lab.

Teaching Assistant

Auburn University, Aug 2019 -- Ongoing, Auburn, AL.

  • Teaching Assistant for course Natural Language Processing (Graduate level) course.
  • Teaching Assistant for course Information Retrieval (Graduate level) course.
  • Teaching Assistant for course COMP 1000 From Aug 2019 to April 2020

IT Analyst

Tata Consultancy Services (Kingfisher), 2018 -- 2018, Kolkata, India.

  • Involved in installation & configuration of the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2010/2013 farms and service applications through PowerShell.
  • Migrated SharePoint 2013 to Office 365.
  • Testing SharePoint applications including script preparation and execution.

System Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services (KPMG), 2016 -- 2018, Kolkata, India.

  • Installation and configuration of the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007/2013 farms and service applications.

Assistant System Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services (KPMG), 2012 -- 2016, Kolkata, India.

  • Production deployment and bug fixing.
  • Migration of SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2013.

Publications

  • Souvika Sarkar, Dongji Feng and Shubhra Kanti Karmaker Santu. "Zero-Shot Multi-Label Topic Inference with Sentence Encoders & LLMs". The 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing.
  • Mousumi Akter, Souvika Sarkar and Shubhra Kanti Karmaker Santu. "On Evaluation of Bangla Word Analogies". The 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing.
  • Souvika Sarkar, Biddut Sarker Bijoy, Syeda Jannatus Saba, Dongji Feng, Yash Mahajan,Sheikh Rabiul Islam, Md. Ruhul Amin and Shubhra Kanti Karmaker Santu. "Ad-Hoc Monitoring of COVID-19 Global Research Trends for Well-Informed Policy Making". ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology 2022.
  • Souvika Sarkar, Dongji Feng, Shubhra Kanti Karmaker."Exploring Universal Sentence Encoders for Zero-shot Text Classification". Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 12th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing 2022.
  • Souvika Sarkar, Shubhra Kanti Karmaker. "Concept Annotation from Users Perspective: A New Challenge". WWW UserNLP 2022.
  • Biddut Sarker Bijoy, Syeda Jannatus Saba, Souvika Sarkar , Md Saiful Islam, Sheikh Rabiul Islam, Md. Ruhul Amin and Shubhra Kanti Karmaker. "COVID19α: Interactive Spatio-Temporal Visualization of COVID-19 Symptoms through Tweet Analysis" ACM IUI 2021.
  • Biddut Sarker Bijoy, Syeda Jannatus Saba, Souvika Sarkar, Md Saiful Islam, Sheikh Rabiul Islam, Md. Ruhul Amin. "Containing COVID-19 Pandemic by Mining Knowledge from Scientific Literature and Social Media". ICDATA 2021.
  • Souvika Sarkar, Mohammad Fakhruddin Babar, Md Mahadi Hassan, Monowar Hasan, Shubhra Kanti Karmaker Santu. "Processing Natural Language on Embedded Devices: How Well Do Modern Models Perform?". In Arxiv 2023.

Achivements

  • Recipient of 100+ Women Strong Outstanding Departmental Annual Graduate Award for 2023 from the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering at Auburn University.
  • Featured on Samuel Ginn College of Engineering at Auburn University news for or publication in the journal Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, a highly prestigious journal in the field of artificial intelligence with an impact factor of 10.489.
  • Attained the runner-up position in the inter-district Yoga competition.
  • Awarded Star of the Month twice for developing many custom code on client’s requirement in KPMG Project and completing critical deployments without error.
  • Received Service Commitment award for completing 5 years in Tata Consultancy Services.
  • Ranked 1st in the ME Entrance exam held at Jadavpur University.
  • Recipient TCS sponsorship to pursue M.E in Software Engineering from Jadavpur University.
  • Recipient of certificate of merit and scholarships at school for procuring 1st position in XII Exams.
  • Achieved a state-level ranking as a Gymnast and have also represented state at the national level.