talks

talks, tutorials, workshops, posters, panels, podcasts and poetry open mics, newest first.

Slides for most of these are on Speaker Deck; code and posters are on GitHub (pradarshan).

2026

2025

  • Talk
    Tutorial

    Steer Thy Language Model

    Talk · Data Science Summit · Conference · Warsaw · Nov 2025

    Tutorial · D3A: Danish Digitalization, Data Science and AI · Conference · Parallel session: Latent Space Navigation, Interpretation, Probing and Steering · Nyborg · Aug 2025

    Slides

  • Talk

    Quantifying the role of contextual signals for modelling hateful text

    IIIT Delhi · PhD thesis defence · Sep 2025

    Thesis Slides

  • Poster

    Hate Personified: Investigating the role of LLMs in content moderation

    Pre-ACL Workshop · Copenhagen · Jul 2025

    Cardiff NLP Summer Workshop · Jul 2025

    EMNLP · Conference · Main conference paper · Presented remotely · Online · Nov 2024

    Paper

  • Talk

    Proactive Mitigation

    DeTox Workshop, ICWSM · Lightning talk · Copenhagen · Jun 2025

    Slides

  • Poster

    QUENCH: Measuring the gap between Indic and Non-Indic Contextual General Reasoning in LLMs

    ALPS · Advanced Language Processing School · Aussois · Mar 2025

    COLING · Conference · Main conference paper · Presented by Aflah · Abu Dhabi · Jan 2025

    Paper

2024

  • Poster

    Tox-BART: Leveraging Toxicity Attributes for Explanation Generation of Implicit Hate Speech

    ACL · Conference · Findings paper · Bangkok · Aug 2024

    Paper

  • Talk

    An overview of hate speech analysis techniques in NLP

    Apr 2024

    Slides

  • Talk

    Probing Critical Learning Dynamics of PLMs for Hate Speech Detection

    TADA Reading Group (PolSci-ML Initiative) · Invited talk · Online · Apr 2024

    EACL · Conference · Findings paper · Mar 2024

    Paper Slides

2023

  • Talk

    Hateful Signals In Indic Context and Where to Find Them

    Ketchup Talk, IIIT Delhi · Department talk · Nov 2023

    Slides

  • Talk

    Hateful Signals and Where to Find Them

    Google Bindi Summit · Bangalore · Nov 2023

    Slides

  • Talk

    Lessons learned from analyzing systems for hate speech detection and bias mitigation

    NLP With Friends · Seminar · Invited talk · Online · Sep 2023

    Slides

  • Talk
    Poster

    Revisiting Hate Speech Benchmarks: From Data Curation to System Deployment

    Talk + Poster · ACM SIGKDD · Conference · Research Track full paper · Long Beach · Aug 2023

    Paper Slides

  • Talk

    Role of NLP in Analysing Hate Speech

    LMU Munich · Invited guest talk · Jul 2023

    Slides

  • Talk

    Political Attack India

    TUM School of Social Sciences and Technology · Invited talk · Munich · Jul 2023

    Slides

  • Podcast

    Biases That Exist in Toxicity Detection Systems for the Web

    Women Who Code, Career Nav #41 · Online · Apr 2023

    Listen

  • Talk
    Poster

    Proactively Reducing the Hate Intensity of Online Posts via Hate Speech Normalization

    Poster · ACM India ARCS · Academic Research and Careers for Students Symposium · Bhopal · Feb 2023

    Talk + Poster · ACM SIGKDD · Conference · Research, ADS Track full paper · Washington DC · Aug 2022

    Paper Poster Slides

  • Talk

    CSE Ketchup Talk

    IIIT Delhi · Department talk · Jan 2023

    Slides

2022

  • Talk

    Application of NLP in Hate Speech

    Natural Language Processing (Graduate Level), IIIT Delhi · Guest lecture · Nov 2022

    Slides

  • Talk

    PhD Comprehensive Exam (public talk)

    IIIT Delhi · PhD comprehensive exam · Sep 2022

    Slides

  • Panel

    Early Career Virtual Networking Session

    GHC · Conference · Session Facilitator · Online · Sep 2022

  • Talk

    Counseling Summarization Using Mental Health Knowledge Guided Utterance Filtering

    ACM SIGKDD · Conference · Research, ADS Track full paper · Proxy presenter · Washington DC · Aug 2022

    Paper Poster

  • Talk
    Poster

    Hate is the New Infodemic: A Topic-aware Modeling of Hate Speech Diffusion on Twitter

    Poster · RIISE · Research Showcase · IIIT Delhi · Apr 2022

    Talk + Poster · IEEE ICDE · Conference · Research Track Full Paper · Online · Jul 2021

    Poster Paper Slides Video

  • Tutorial

    Combating Online Hate Speech

    WSDM · Conference · Online · Feb 2022

    ECML PKDD · Conference · Online · Sep 2021

    Slides Website

2021

  • Panel

    NARI: Women in Technology

    FFEC Webinar Series · Panel Discussion · Online · Nov 2021

  • Talk

    Fake News Detection System using XLNet model with Topic Distributions

    CONSTRAINT Workshop, AAAI · Shared task paper · Presented by Akansha · Online · Feb 2021

    Paper Slides

2020

2019

  • Talk

    Magic of Numpy

    PyData Delhi · Conference · Presentation · IIIT Delhi · Aug 2019

    Slides Code

  • Tutorial

    Intro To ML, ML Handson

    LetsPyDelhi · Bootcamp · IIIT Delhi · Mar 2019

    Code

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