Meghana Kshirsagar

Meghana Kshirsagar is a Postdoctoral Researcher and data scientist at Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software and is affiliated with the Biocomputing and Developmental Systems Research Group hosted within the department of Computer Science and Information Systems at University of Limerick, Ireland.She has Bachelors degree from Government Engineering College,Aurangabad, India , Masters degree from Patiala University, India and PhD from Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University,India.All her degrees are in Computer Science and Engineering.

She is currently working on a Science Foundation Ireland funded project (€1.8M) in collaboration with Intel to automatically design digital circuits. Her current research also focuses on designing machine learning,deep learning and data mining models for smart transportation as well as developing blockchain assisted infrastructures for smart healthcare and plastic waste management.She has applied grammatical evolution tools to design time series forecasting models.

During her PhD thesis which was sponsored under world bank project,her research involved the broader domain of neuro-cognition where she designed machine learning models to analyse connectivity strengths in populations afflicted with mental illness such as Schizophrenia, Alzheimer, Dementia while performing different tasks and used fMRI images in her study.A part of her PhD thesis also focused on designing machine learning models for classification of brain tumors from real world MRS images collected from various hospitals and diagnostic centres.

She has authored close to 60 scientific publications which includes international conferences,book chapters and journal articles.She has chaired many sessions in machine learning,artificial intelligence and evolutionary computation conferences.She has also served on technical programme committee in many IEEE conferences and has organized special sessions in Springer sponsored machine learning conferences.She is member of many scientific committees and serves on editorial board as review editor in the Frontiers in Blockchain journal.

She has supervised 40 graduate students, and taught numerous basic and advanced courses in data mining and algorithms to both undergraduates and graduates during her tenure as Assistant and Associate Professor in computer science department at Government Engineering College, Aurangabad from 2002-2019.She represented her department in academic councils that finalised strategic decisions for the department .She also served in many of departments core committees that oversaw successful accreditation (thrice during her tenure),quality assurance ,syllabus design and various interview panels for graduates admission process and appointment of adhoc faculties. She was involved in curriculum design for many undergrad and graduate courses such as data mining and warehousing ,data science and fundamental and advanced algorithms. She was also editor-in-chief for the institute's annual magazine “ Catalyst from 2015-2019.

She has successfully acquired funds to the tune of €10,000 from world bank project for the development of departments staff and students She was successful in securing funds to the tune of €5,000 for organisation of workshops for student empowerment.She collaborated on various industrial sponsored projects that resulted in successful MOU’s and created hiring opportunities amongst departments students.

Her mentoring to teams participating in Smart India Hackathon (SIH-2019) has lead to many successes.Simultaneously she has mentored in EU-Hackathon(2020) and hosted a workshop session at Vizathon(Visualization Hackathon, Coronavirus Visualization Team,July 2021) where she was also invited as judge.She has organised and is co chairing “Evathon”(The Evolutionary Computation Hackathon,Aug 2021).She has collaborated on 20 articles on medium (perspectivesondatascience) as an initiative to facilitate learnings in data science community.