Prof. Shubhi Bansal

Assistant Professor

Artificial Intelligence & MarTech

Dr. Shubhi Bansal’s work lies at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Social Computing, and Multimodal Learning. She completed her Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Indore as a Prime Minister Research Fellow (PMRF). Her research is driven by a commitment to developing AI-enabled solutions for understanding digital communication, online behavior, and social media ecosystems.

Her scholarly contributions focus on areas such as hashtag recommendation, popularity prediction, misinformation detection, sarcasm detection, multilingual NLP, and social media analytics. Through her research, she explores how advanced machine learning and deep learning techniques can be leveraged to address real-world challenges in digital environments. Her work has been published in leading journals and presented at premier international venues including ACL, AAAI ICWSM, ICASSP, and IEEE forums.

Dr. Bansal has built an impressive publication record across several high-impact journals and conferences, contributing to advancements in computational social science, multimodal learning, graph neural networks, and large language models. Her research spans applications ranging from disaster-event information systems and social media recommendation engines to sentiment analysis, stance detection, and multimodal content understanding. She has also contributed to emerging interdisciplinary areas such as AI-driven neuromarketing and consumer engagement.

In addition to her research, Dr. Bansal has extensive teaching and mentoring experience. She has taught courses in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Advanced Algorithms, and Natural Language Processing, and has mentored numerous undergraduate and postgraduate students. She actively contributes to the research community through reviewing for leading international journals and conferences. At MICA, her interests include applying AI and NLP to business, social media management, information systems, and analytics-driven decision-making.

Areas of Teaching
  • AI for Business
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Social Media Management
  • Information Systems
  • Business Analytics and Visualisation
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Machine Learning
  • Advanced Algorithms
  • Soft Computing
Awards & Honours
  • Prime Minister Research Fellowship (PMRF), 2021-2025.
  • 2nd Runner-up, Research Symposium, IIT Indore, 2022-23.
  • Winner, National Symposium on Redesigning Supply Chain, Chitkara University, 2022.
  • AIR 2989, GATE CS 2020.
  • Geoffrey Hinton Fellowship Hackathon, Rank 1 (Public Leaderboard), 2021.
Areas of Research
  • Hashtag Recommendation
  • Popularity Prediction
  • Fake News Detection
  • Sarcasm Detection
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Social Computing
  • Multimodal Learning
  • AI for Social Good
  • Computational Social Science
Research Publications (Selected)
Title Journal/Conference Year
Retrieval Augmented Encoder-Decoder with Diffusion for Sequential Hashtag Recommendation in Disaster Events ICWSM 2025
ImpliHateVid: Implicit Hate Speech Detection in Videos ACL 2025
Intra-modal Relation and Emotional Incongruity Learning using Graph Attention Networks for Multimodal Sarcasm Detection ICASSP 2025
Transformer-aware Sequence-to-Sequence Network for Personalised Tag Recommendation in Software Information Sites Information and Software Technology 2026
AMuSeD: Multimodal Sarcasm Detection Incorporating Bi-modal Data Augmentation IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing 2025
Emotion-aware Dual Cross-Attentive Neural Network for Stance Detection Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence 2025
A Hybrid Filtering for Micro-video Hashtag Recommendation using Graph Neural Network Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence 2024
Sentiment and Hashtag-aware Attentive Deep Neural Network for Multimodal Post Popularity Prediction Neural Computing and Applications 2024
Multilingual Personalized Hashtag Recommendation for Low-Resource Indic Languages Expert Systems with Applications 2023
A Hybrid Deep Neural Network for Multimodal Personalized Hashtag Recommendation IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems 2022