Rate My Professor Souvick Ghosh

Ghosh earned his PhD from Rutgers University School of Communication and Information, with a doctoral dissertation exploring intelligent functionalities of spoken conversational search systems. Prior thereto, he completed a Bachelor’s and Master’s in computer science. At SJSU, he teaches Information Retrieval System Design (INFO 202, 2021–2025), Problem Solving with Data I & II (INFO 287, 2020–2025), and Math for Machine Learning (INFO 246, 2022–2025). Named SJSU’s inaugural AI Faculty Fellow (2025–2026), he co-developed the Human-Centered AI Certificate, contributes to AI Literacy Essentials, and advances AI integration in education. His over 30 peer-reviewed publications include “Spoken Conversational Search: Evaluating the Effect of System Clarifications on User Experience through Wizard-of-Oz Study” (Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 2025), “Exploring the economics of conversational search sessions” (Aslib Journal of Information Management, 2024), “Integrating AI into Library Systems: A Perspective on Applications and Challenges” (ACM/IEEE JCDL, 2024), and influential earlier works like “Searching as learning” (CHIIR, 2018; 128 citations). As co-PI, he secured Mozilla Foundation grants for responsible computing education (2023–2026) and U.S. Department of State funding. Ghosh leads as SIG Cabinet Director (ASIS&T, 2024–2025) and serves on program committees for SIGIR (2022–2025), CHIIR (2020–2025), JCDL, and WebSci.