Souvika Sarkar

Assistant Professor, School of Computing
Wichita State University, Kansas, USA
📧 souvika.sarkar@wichita.edu | 📧 souvikasarkar@gmail.com
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Current Appointment

Assistant Professor
School of Computing, Wichita State University, Kansas, United States
Aug 2024 – Present

Education

• Ph.D., Computer Science and Software Engineering
  Auburn University, Alabama, USA
  Aug 2019 – Jul 2024
  • Advisor: Prof. Shubhra Kanti Karmaker
  • Committee: Prof. Anh Nguyen, Prof. Gerry Dozier, Prof. Asish Gupta
  • Thesis: Zero-Shot Multi-Label Topic Inference

• M.E., Software Engineering
  Jadavpur University, West Bengal, India
  Jun 2015 – Dec 2018

• B.Tech., Computer Science and Engineering
  Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology, West Bengal, India
  Jun 2007 – Jul 2011

Research Interests

Natural Language Processing, Generative AI, Information Retrieval, Intelligent Agents, Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning

Awards

• Hunger Free Kansas Mass Action Grant – Kansas Leadership Center
  Leveraging AI for Food System Data Acquisition and Inquiry
• Multidisciplinary Research Project Awards – Wichita State University
  Food System Data Acquisition to Support Real-Time Food Navigation using Large Language Models

Publications

Conference Papers

• EMNLP (2025) – Benchmarking LLMs on the Semantic Overlap Summarization Task
• NAACL (2025) – LLMs as Meta-Reviewers’ Assistants: A Case Study
• L@S (2024) – SimPal: Meta-Conversational Framework to Understand Teacher Goals in K–12 Physics
• ICPE (2024) – Processing Natural Language on Embedded Devices: How Well Do Transformer Models Perform?
• EMNLP (2023) – Zero-Shot Multi-Label Topic Inference with Sentence Encoders & LLMs
• EMNLP (2023) – On Evaluation of Bangla Word Analogies
• AACL-IJCNLP (2022) – Exploring Universal Sentence Encoders for Zero-shot Text Classification
• ICDATA (2021) – Containing COVID-19 Pandemic by Mining Knowledge from Scientific Literature and Social Media
• ACM IUI (2021) – COVID19α: Spatio-Temporal Visualization of COVID-19 Symptoms via Tweets

Journal Papers

• ACM TIST (2023) – Ad-Hoc Monitoring of COVID-19 Global Research Trends for Well-Informed Policy Making

Peer-Reviewed Workshop Papers

• NeurIPS Safe GenAI Workshop (2024) – Investigating Annotator Bias in Large Language Models for Hate Speech Detection
• WWW UserNLP (2022) – Concept Annotation from Users’ Perspective: A New Challenge

arXiv Preprints (2024–2025)

• Pitfalls of Evaluating Language Models with Open Benchmarks
• Instructional Goal-Aligned Question Generation in Virtual Lab Settings
• Zero-Shot Multi-Label Classification of Bangla Documents: Large Decoders vs Classic Encoders
• Advancing Security with Digital Twins: A Survey
• Investigating Hallucination in Conversations for Low Resource Languages
• LLMs as On-Demand Customizable Service

Teaching Experience

Assistant Professor

Wichita State University (Aug 2024 – Present)

• Natural Language Processing (Graduate)
• Information Retrieval (Graduate)
• Artificial Intelligence (Graduate)
• Data Structures (Undergraduate)

Teaching Assistant

Auburn University (Aug 2019 – Jul 2024)

• Personal Computer Applications
• Fundamentals of Computing II
• Advanced Computer and Network Security
• Natural Language Processing
• Information Retrieval
• Machine Learning
• Explainable Artificial Intelligence
• Computational Biology

Industry Experience

IT Analyst (Client: Kingfisher)

Tata Consultancy Services (May 2018 – Jul 2019)

• Installed/configured Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010/2013 via PowerShell
• Migrated SharePoint 2013 to Office 365
• Managed hotfixes, updates, and service packs
• Developed workflows in SharePoint Designer 2010/2013

IT Analyst (Client: KPMG)

Tata Consultancy Services (Oct 2017 – Apr 2018)

• Tested SharePoint applications, logged defects in ALM QC
• Tracked bug resolutions and deployments

IT Analyst (Client: KPMG)

Tata Consultancy Services (May 2012 – Sep 2017)

• Installed and configured Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007/2013
• Created deployment strategies, run books, and bug fixes
• Migrated SharePoint 2007 → 2013
• Monitored services and performance reports

Technical Skills

• Languages: Python, C, C++, Java, R, LaTeX
• Libraries/Frameworks: PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn, Keras, NumPy

Achievements

• Auburn University Outstanding Doctoral Student Award
• 100+ Women Strong Outstanding Departmental