Prajna Upadhyay
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science and Information Systems
BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus, India
Email: prajna . u @ hyderabad . bits-pilani . ac . in
Office: H-124
Our paper on Legal Information Extraction accepted at NLLP workshop to be held with EMNLP 2024
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science and Information Systems
BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus, India
Email: prajna . u @ hyderabad . bits-pilani . ac . in
Office: H-124
My PhD student, Vanala Sai Durga, won the prestigious India-AI fellowship 2025.
Our paper titled "Making the Sacred: Craft, Ritual, and Computational Imaginaries in Postcolonial HCI" won the best paper honorable mention at CHI 2026
Paper "Continual-learning for Modelling Low-Resource Languages from Large Language Models" accepted at EACL 2026
Paper "Making the Sacred: Craft, Ritual, and Computational Imaginaries in Postcolonial HCI" accepted at CHI 2026
Paper "The Effects of Starter Template Scaffoldings on Coding Anxiety in Introductory Programming Courses" accepted at ACM TOCE.
Paper "The Search for Conflicts of Interest: Open Information Extraction in Scientific Publications" accepted to EMNLP Findings 2025
Paper "First Impressions from Comparing Form-Based and Conversational Interfaces for Public Service Access in India" accepted to HCI+NLP workshop at EMNLP 2025
Our SPARKLE prototype Prabodhini was awarded 3rd position in the research prototypes category at FD Day held at BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus
Paper "Prabodhini: Making Large Language Models Inclusive for Low-Text Literate Users" accepted to ECIR Demo Track