Rate My Professor Rohini Srihari

Her research interests encompass information extraction, retrieval, multimedia information retrieval, text mining, machine learning, and conversational AI. Funded by NSF, DARPA, and IARPA, her projects include developing multilingual text mining tools for the US government and advancing socialbots for empathetic conversations, as in the NSF grant "Purposeful Conversational Agents based on Hierarchical Knowledge Graphs." Srihari directs the Conversational AI for Social Good group at University at Buffalo, focusing on trustworthy AI to combat disinformation and aid the disabled. In 2021, under her supervision, Team Proto—an interdisciplinary student team—secured the bronze prize in the Alexa Prize Socialbot Grand Challenge 4. With over 100 publications in top journals and conferences, a Google Scholar h-index of 40, and two US patents including one on context-aware back-transliteration (2014) and another on face identification (2003), Srihari has significantly influenced AI and NLP fields. Notable works include "OpinionMiner" at KDD 2009, "BREAKING! Presenting Fake News Corpus for Automated Fact Checking" at ACL 2019 Student Research Workshop, and "Disinformation-Analysis and Identification" in 2021.