Assistant Professor

Department of Humanistic Studies
Indian Institute of Technology (BHU)

Varanasi – 221005
Phone No.: 9389156777
Email: swasti.hss@iitbhu.ac.in

Area of Interest: Sociolinguistics, Language Culture & Society, Lexicography, lexical semantics, Computational Lexicography, Applied Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, and Natural Language Processing.

Educational Qualifications

Post Doc in Cognitive Linguistics – Dept of Science & Technology(DST), New Delhi.

Ph. D. in Linguistics – Dept of Linguistics, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University, Agra.

M. A. in Linguistics – Dept of Linguistics, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi.

M. A. in Sanskrit – Dept of Sanskrit, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi.

B. A. – St. John’s College of Dr. B.R. Ambedekar University, Agra.

Professional Experience

Consultant, & Principal Investigator – DST(CSI)PDF Project, Department of Humanistic Studies, IIT (BHU), (2014-2018).

Project Fellow – MMV, Banaras Hindu University,(2013-2014).

Consultant – National Translation Mission, Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore, (2008-2009).

Resource Person – Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore, (2004-2008).

H.P Shastri Research – The Asiatic Society, Kolkata, (2002-2004).

Research Collaborators

- Faculty of Religion and Theology, Beliefs and Practices, VRIJE University, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
- Natural Language Processing Research Lab (NLPRL), Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT (BHU).

- SPIRE Lab, Department of Electrical Engineering Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore.

- Indian Institute of Information Technology, Pune.

Research Group

Dr. Anil Kumar Singh
Associate Professor
Computer Sc. & Engg. Department,
IIT (BHU).

Dr. Praveen Gatla
Assistant Professor
Department of Linguistics
Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi

Dr. Rajesh Mundotiya
Assistant Professor
Computer Sc. & Engg. Department,
IIT Bhilai

Dr. Neelam Yadav
Assistant Professor
K.M. Institute
Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University, Agra

Research projects

Ongoing (Collaborative Projects):

Principal Investigator: ‘Hindu Worldview vis-à-vis UNDP-SDGs in the Context of Fourth Industrial Revolution: a study of VUCA-coping cultural mechanisms of Hindus in Varanasi and the Netherlands’, SPARC Project, VRIJE University, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Project Coordinator: ‘Speech Data Recording and Transcription of Bhojpuri, Magahi, and Maithili Languages’, SPIRE Lab, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore.
संयोजक- शब्दावली निर्माण एवं अनुवाद कार्य समीति, “भारतीय भाषाओं में तकनीकी शिक्षा का विकल्प परियोजना (Bhartiya Bhashaon me Takniki Shiksha ka Vikalpa”- Project), Indian Institute of Information Technology, Pune.

Completed:

Language Coordinator: ‘BHM Corpora project’ ,2005, Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore.
Principal Investigator: ‘Cognitive Linguistic Study of Perception Verbs in Hindi and English: In the Context of Machine Translation’, 2014-2016, Department of Science & Technology (DST), New Delhi.
Co- Principal Investigator: ‘Machine Readable Dictionary of Bhojpuri, Magahi and Maithili’, 5-7 months from Jan. 2015, Project Varanasi, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi.
Co- Principal Investigator: ‘Resources and Tools for Bhojpuri, Maithili and Magahi Machine Translation System’, 3-5 months from June 2015, Project Varanasi, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi.
Co- Principal Investigator: ‘Resources and Tools for Bhojpuri, Maithili and Magahi Machine Translation System Phase-II’ & Phase-III, 6 months from Nov. 2015 & from Dec. 2016, Project Varanasi, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi.
Co- Principal Investigator: ‘Assembly of Machine Translation for Bhojpuri and Maithili’, 18 months from Dec. 2016, Project Varanasi, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi.
Co- Principal Investigator: ‘Wood Craft Industry of Varanasi’, 6 months from March 2016, Project Varanasi, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi.
Co- Principal Investigator: ‘Study of Banarasi Pan with Special Reference to Pandariba’, 6 months from April 2016, Project Varanasi, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi.

Completed (Collaborative Projects):

Project Coordinator: ‘Sentence Composition of Bhojpuri, Magahi, and Maithili Languages’, 2021, SPIRE Lab, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore.
Co- Principal Investigator: ‘Making of a Document/Permanent Exhibition/E- Archiving of Convergent Genres(under Vedangas)’, 18 months from Oct. 2016, Project Varanasi, IIT (BHU) & IIT Kharagpur.
Co- Principal Investigator: ‘Urban Creative Cluster augmentation in Varanasi’, 18 months from Oct. 2016, Project Varanasi, IIT (BHU) & IIT Kharagpur.
Co- Principal Investigator: ‘Meditation App Development using Feedback from Various Varanasi Meditation Traditions’, 18 months from Oct. 2016, Project Varanasi, IIT (BHU) & IIT Kharagpur.
Co- Principal Investigator: ‘Old Age Homes in Varanasi: Exploring the Holistic Wellbeing of the Elderly and Financing towards Developing a Sustainable and Integrated Model’, 18 months from Oct. 2016, Project Varanasi, IIT (BHU) & IIT Kharagpur.