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Sunny Rai

Assistant Professor
sunny.rai@mahindrauniversity.edu.in

Dr. Sunny Rai joined École Centrale School of Engineering at Mahindra University, Hyderabad in 2018. She received her Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering from Faculty of Technology, University of Delhi.Dr Rai is a member of IEEE, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL).

Dr. Rai’s area of interest includes Natural Language Processing, Computational Social Science and Machine Learning. Her research has been published in top journals and conferences (ACM Computing Surveys, The Computer Journal, Meta4NLP(NAACL-HLT), IC2S2, IJCRS). She has acted as reviewer for journals such as Neurocomputing (Elsevier), IEEE Access, Computer Applications for Engineering Education (Wiley), and the top conferences such as AACL and EMNLP. For more information, please visit her personal page: https://sr007.github.io/about/

2020

Ph.D (2020) – Faculty of Technology, University of Delhi, Delhi India.

2014

M.Tech (2014) – GGS IP University, Delhi, India

2012

B.Tech (2012) – GGS IP University, Delhi, India

Dec’20 - present

Assistant Professor, Mahindra University, Hyderabad, India.

Jul’18 - Dec’20

Academic Associate, Mahindra Ecole Centrale, Hyderabad, India.

Dec’14 - Jul’18

Teaching cum Research Fellow, NSIT, University of Delhi, India.

2021

  • Abdul Khaliq, Rohan Joseph and Sunny Rai. (2021). #covid is war and #vaccine is weapon? COVID-19 metaphors in India. In the proceedings of 18th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON), Silchar, India.
  • Rai, Sunny, Shampa Chakraverty, and Devendra Kumar Tayal. "Metaphors in Business Applications: Modelling Subjectivity Through Emotions for Metaphor Comprehension." In Natural Language Processing for Global and Local Business, pp. 134-153. IGI Global, 2021.

    • 2020

  • Rai, Sunny, and Shampa Chakraverty. (2020). "A survey on computational metaphor processing." ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR) 53.2 (2020): 1-37.

    • 2019

  • Gollapudi, Uma M., Manikumar Perla, Sai Hitesh, Rahul Kumaran, Sunny Rai, and Amitava Das.(2019). "Understanding User Vulnerability Towards Radicalization On Twitter.” Presented in 5th International Conference on Computational Social Science IC2S2, July 17-20, 2019, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
  • Rai, Sunny, Shampa Chakraverty, Devendra K. Tayal, Divyanshu Sharma, and Ayush Garg. "Understanding metaphors using emotions." New Generation Computing 37, no. 1 (2019): 5-27.

    • Computational Social Science (social norms, hate speech detection, universal needs), Figurative Text Processing (metaphor, humour, sarcasm), Text Generation, Visual Metaphor.