Ms. Ashweta Milind Shivolkar

Faculty of Physical Science & Earth Science

Computer Science

Faculty

Ms. Ashweta Milind Shivolkar

Assistant Professor

Year of Joining/Teaching Experience

2019

Areas of Specialization

Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing

Contact Details

Email: aaf016@chowgules.ac.in

BIO

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Parvatibai Chowgule College of Arts and Science. My teaching and research interests include Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Science, and Natural Language Processing. In addition to my academic role, I am a research scholar at Goa Business School, Goa University, working on my Ph.D. research titled “Addressing Challenges in Code-Mixed (Hindi-English) Sentiment Analysis.” My research focuses on developing robust sentiment analysis techniques for multilingual and code-mixed text, which is crucial for understanding user opinions and online discourse in linguistically diverse settings.

Positions Held

Faculty Coordinator, Tech-Week (2019–20)
Faculty Coordinator, TECHFEST (2022)
Convener, Social Media and Publicity Committee (2025–26)
Coordinator, PGDCA Programme (2025–26)
Nodal Officer, Samarth e-Governance in Higher Education Institutions (Aided Courses, 2025)
Social Media and Publicity Faculty Coordinator, Department of Computer Science (2024–25)
Board of Studies (BoS) Member-Secretary (2021–22, 2024–25)

Accomplishments

Qualified UGC–NET with Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) in Computer Science, December 2018.
Winner of the Shared Task on Decoding Fake Narratives in Spreading Hateful Stories (Faux-Hate) at the 21st International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON 2024), AU-KBC Research Centre, Chennai, organized by the NLP Association of India (NLPAI).
Resource Person for Scratch Programming Outreach Programme (2019–20).
Mentor for NET-SET Paper I Mentoring Programme, Directorate of Higher Education (DHE), Goa (2020–21, 2021–22, 2022–23, 2024–25).
Resource Person for Orientation cum Training Programme on OBE Portal (2020–21).
Faculty In-Charge, E-Sports Club (2021–22).
Resource Person for Ghazali Talk on “Experiential Learning, Creative Thinking, and Hands-on Pedagogy” (2022–23).
Resource Person for Interactive Session under Faculty Enrichment Internship Program on Artificial Intelligence (5 May 2023).
Faculty Coordinator for Intercollegiate Technical Event – IRIX 2023.

RESEARCH PAPERS

Research Papers Conference Papers/Posters Presented:

Ashweta A. Fondekar, Milind M. Shivolkar, and Jyoti D. Pawar. 2024. Unpacking Faux-Hate: Addressing Faux-Hate Detection and Severity Prediction in Code-Mixed Hinglish Text with HingRoBERTa and Class Weighting Techniques. In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON): Shared Task on Decoding Fake Narratives in Spreading Hateful Stories (Faux-Hate), pages 6–11, AU-KBC Research Centre, Chennai, India. NLP Association of India (NLPAI).
Fondekar, Ashweta, Jyoti D. Pawar, and R. Karmali. "Konkani sentiwordnet: resource for sentiment analysis using supervised learning approach." Workshop on Indian language data: resources and evaluation (WILDRE3), Portoroz, Slovenia. 2016.

RESEARCH PROJECTS

ACTIVITIES /PARTICIPATIONS

ACTIVITIES

Activities

Activities Organized:

Conducted Economic Revival Plan for Local Bodies of the State of Goa to Directorate of Higher Education and GIPARD carried by the orders of the State Executive Committee under the Disaster Management Act. (Ref letter GIPARD/AD/COVID-19/2020-21/2252 dated 23/01/2020.
Organised webinar on “ Angel Investment/VC Funding Opportunity for Early Stage Entrepreneurs” on 10th May 2021

Activities Participated:

Attended webinar on ‘How to Write a Great Research Paper, and get it accepted by a Good Journal' organized by the Directorate of Higher Education, Goa in collaboration with ELSEVIER on 3rd June 2020
Attended State Level Seminar on “Demystifying NAAC Assessment and Accreditation Process(2021-22)
Completed One Week FDP on “Research Methodology” from 23/08/2021 to 28/08/2021 on Zoom Platform organized by Dept of Human Resource Development Veer Narmad South Gujarat University
Attended Refresher Course on Information and Communication Technology (2022-23)
Completed Faculty Enrichment Internship Program at the IIT Goa campus from 22d August 2022 to 23 December 2022 on ”Artificial Intelligence”

WORKSHOPS