Specialization

Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, Multi-Modal Analysis, Multi-lingual

Email

vijay.kumari@thapar.edu

Education
1.    PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani (BITS Pilani), Pilani campus, Rajasthan
o    Title – Multi-Modal Question Answering System using Machine Learning Techniques
2.    M.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering from Guru Jambheshwar   University of Science and Technology, Hisar, Haryana
3.    B. Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering from Kurukshetra University.

Experience
1.    Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering Department, Thapar University Patiala, India (Aug 2024 - present)
2.    Teaching Assistant, Research Fellow, Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, Pilani campus, Rajasthan, India (August 2019 – July 2024)
3.    Senior Research Fellow (Project Fellow) in a project sponsored by Department of Science and Technology Pilani, Pilani campus, Rajasthan, India (July 2019 – march 2023)
4.    Assistant Professor Department of computer science, Lovely Professional University, Jalandhar, Punjab, India (Aug 2018 – April 2019)

Conference Publications
1.    Vijay Kumari, Miloni Mittal, Yashvardhan Sharma, and Lavika Goel “FAQ-Based Question Answering Systems with Query-Question and Query-Answer Similarity”.  In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART-2024) - Volume 3, ISBN 978-989-758-680-4, ISSN 2184-433X, pages 1190-1197.  (CORE B , Scopus)     
2.    Vijay Kumari, Abhimanyu sethi, Yashvardhan Sharma, Lavika Goel, “Visual Question Answering Analysis: Datasets, Methods, and Image Featurization Techniques” In 12th international Conference on Pattern 
Recognition Applications and Methods (ICPRAM), 22-24 Feb 2023, Lisbon, Portugal. ISBN 978-989-758-626-2, ISSN 2184-4313, pages 281-288. (CORE C, Scopus)  
3.    Vijay Kumari, Godebole Prachi, Yashvardhan Sharma, “Automatic Subjective Answer Evaluation” In 12th international Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods (ICPRAM), 22-24 Feb 2023, Lisbon, Portugal. ISBN 978-989-758-626-2, ISSN 2184-4313, pages 289-295. (CORE C, Scopus) 
4.    Shaz Furniturewala, Vijay Kumari, Amulya Ratna Dash, Hriday Kedia, Yashvardhan Sharma “BITS Pilani at  HinglishEval: Quality Evaluation for Code-Mixed Hinglish Text Using Transformers”. Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Natural Language Generation: Generation Challenges (INLG 2022), Jun 17, 2022.  P-35-38. (CORE B, Scopus)  
5.    Vijay Kumari,Ayush Jain,Yashvardhan Sharma,Lavika Goel, “Conversational Question Answering System using RASA Framework”, Global Conference on Artificial Intelligence & Applications, 2022, pp. 489-498. CRC Press. (GCAIA-2021). (Scopus)
6.    Vijay Kumari, Srishti Keshari, Lavika Goel, Yashvardhan Sharma. “Context-Based Question Answering System with Suggested Questions”, Confluence 2022, 12th International Conference on Cloud Computing, Data Science & Engineering, Amity University, Uttar Pradesh, India 2022, Jan 27 , pp. 368-373, (Scopus)
7.    Shaz Furniturewala, Racchit Jain, Vijay Kumari and Yashvardhan Sharma@AILA-FIRE2021: “Legal Text Classification and Summarization using Transformers and Joint Text Features” In: Working Notes of 13th meeting of the Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (Scopus, FIRE 2021)  
8.    Vijay Kumari, Chinmay Gosavi, Lavika Goel,Yashvardhan Sharma. “Domain-specific Chatbot Development using the Deep Learning based RASA Framework" 3rd International Conference on Communication and Intelligent Systems, NIT Delhi. India, 2022 , pp. 883-896, (Scopus)  
9.    Vijay Kumari, Abhishek Ashwanikumar Sharma, Yashvardhan Sharma, Lavika Goel, Scalability and Sustainability in Chatbot and Mobile Application Development” , 13th International Conference on Cloud Computing, Data Science & Engineering(Confluence), 19-20th jan 2023, Amity University, Uttar Pradesh, pp. 397-403, doi:  10.1109/Confluence56041.2023.10048882. (Scopus)  
10.    Vijay Kumari , Shaz Furniturewala, Gautam Bhambhani and Yashvardhan Sharma@SocAnaRes-IL-FIRE2022: “Anaphora Resolution from Social Media Text” In Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation, 9-13th Dec 2022, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. (Scopus, FIRE 2022)
11.    Vijay Kumari, Yashvardhan Sharma, Lavika Goel, “A Comparative Analysis of Different BERT Based Models for Document Visual Question Answering.” In 5th International Conference On Computational Intelligence & Data Engineering (ICCIDE), Springer, VIT-AP University, Andhra Pradesh, INDIA, 12-13 August 2022 (Scopus)
12.    Anshika Gupta, Shaz Furniturewala, Vijay Kumari, Yashvardhan Sharma ” Steno AI at SemEval-2023 Task 6: Rhetorical Role Labeling of Legal Documents using Transformers and Graph Neural Networks” In The 17th 
International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, Toronto,Canada, 9-14, July 2023 (ACL)  (Core A*) 
13.    Abhishek Agarwal, Vijay Kumari, Yashvardhan Sharma, Lavika Goel, “Ranking based Question Answering System with a Web and Mobile Application”, Proceedings of the Confluence 2021, 11th International Conference on Cloud Computing, Data Science & Engineering, . Amity University, Uttar Pradesh, India, 2021, Jan 28, pp. 52-58  ,(Scopus)

Projects
•    Visual Question Answering System, Text-Visual Question Answering System, Visual Dialogue Systems -Currently Working  
•    Knowledge Graph Based Question Answering (working with Wikidata and Dbpedia KBs)- Currently Working
•    Ranking Based Question Answering System with Suggested Question Answer pairs , GitHub Link- https://github.com/p20190065/QuestionAnsweringSystem.git  
•    Conversational Question Answering System-University-Bot, BITSAT-Bot, GitHub Link- https://github.com/p20190065/University-bot.git , http s://github.com/p20190065/BITSAT-Bot.git  
•    Automatic Subjective Answer Evaluation, GitHub Link- https://github.com/p20190065/DescriptiveAnswerEval.git  
•    Document Visual Question Answering System, GitHub Link- https://github.com/p20190065/DocVQA.git .  

Honours and Achievements
•    Qualified Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) CS in 2015 
•    Qualified National Eligibility Test (UGC-NET) for Assistant Professor in July 2018. 
•    ICCIS-2021-Best Paper award. Awarded by NIT Delhi