Dr. Deepti Joshi is a Professor of Computer Science at The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina where she had taught a variety of computer science, data science and AI-related courses. Dr. Joshi is passionate about undergraduate research having supervised more than 40 students on a diverse set of topics such as text classification for social unrest detection, big data analytics, building social unrest vocabulary through text and images using data-driven approaches, and twitter data analysis for social sensing. Dr. Joshi has been awarded several internal research grants from The Citadel Foundation, Swain Family School of Science and Mathematics, and the provost grant awards. She has also received approximately 8 million dollars in funding through research grants from the National Science Foundation and the Department of Defense. She is currently conducting research with open data sources, including news sources, and other regional and national level statistics-based datasets to develop algorithms and a system to anticipate social unrest within a geographic context. Dr. Joshi also works extensively with the STEM center on in-service teacher professional development projects where her goal is to enable all teachers to teach computational thinking, computer science, and artificial intelligence within their K-12 classrooms.
Degrees:
Ph.D. in Computer Science – University of Nebraska-Lincoln
M.S. in Applied Computer Science – Northwest Missouri State University
Master’s Diploma in Computer Applications – DOEACC Society Government of India
B.A. in English – University of Delhi
Research Interests:
Spatio-Temporal Data Mining, Big Data Analytics, Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence, CS-Education