About me

I am an Associate Data Scientist at Extramarks Education India.
I earned a Bachelor's degree in Technology, specializing in Computer Science and Design, from IIIT Delhi in May 2022.
I have a deep-seated interest in multiple areas of research at the core of my work, including the application of AI in education, Affective Computing, HCI, Databases, Information Retrieval, Generative AI, Language Models, and Multimodal Deep Learning.

I am looking for Phd or research masters supervisors!
please get in touch with me at rushil18408@iiitd.ac.in

Some of my research projects are deployed and can be tested out here:

Research Focus

I want to harness the power of generative AI to democratize education, generating tailored, engaging learning materials for underprivileged students.

Accepted Publications

  • Pdf2PreReq: Automatic Extraction of Concept Dependency Graphs from Academic Textbooks

    Rushil Thareja, Venktesh V, Mukesh Mohania, AI4ED @AAAI 22

  • Auto-req: Automatic detection of pre-requisite dependencies between academic videos

    Rushil Thareja, Ritik Garg, Shiva Baghel, Deep Dwivedi, Mukesh Mohania, Ritvik Kulshrestha, ACL BEA 2023

  • InMDb: Indian Movie Database for Emotion Analysis

    Ritik Garg, Rushil Thareja, Manak Bisht, Manavjeet Singh, Sarthak Arora, Jainendra Shukla, ICVGIP 23

  • Multimodal Sentiment Analysis of Social Media Content and Its Impact on Mental Wellbeing: An Investigation of Extreme Sentiments

    Rushil Thareja, CODS-COMAD 24

  • Effecti-Net: A Multimodal Framework and Database for Educational Content Effectiveness Analysis

    Deep Dwivedi, Ritik Garg, Shiva Baghel, Rushil Thareja, Jainendra Shukla, Mukesh Mohania, LAK 24

Publications under review

  • An Analysis of Physiological and Psychological Responses in Virtual Reality and Flat Screen Gaming

    Ritik Vatsal, Shrivatsa Mishra, Rushil Thareja, Mrinmoy Chakrabarty, Ojaswa Sharma, IEEE TAC

  • It’s Not The Destination, It’s The Journey - e-Sahyatri: Your AI-Based Travel Companion

    Raghav Mittal*, Rushil Thareja*, Mukesh Mohania, ICDE 24

  • EDEN: Enhanced Database Expansion in eLearning: A System for Automated Generation of Academic Videos

    Rushil Thareja, Ritik Garg, Shiva Baghel, Deep Dwivedi, Mukesh Mohania, EDBT 24

Publications under Preparation

  • Engage-O-Meter: A Multimodal System for Live Classroom Engagement Analysis

    Deep Dwivedi, Rushil Thareja, Ritik Garg, Shiva Baghel, .. Jainendra Shukla, Mukesh Mohania, AIED 24

  • Video Analysis Engine for Predicting Effectiveness

    Rushil Thareja, Ritik Garg, Shiva Baghel, Deep Dwivedi, Mukesh Mohania, IJAIED

Work Experience

Reviewing Roles & Positions of Responsibility

  • Program Committee member, 18th Workshop on NLP for Building Educational Applications, ACL 2023.

  • Member - ACL SIGEDU Special Interest Group for Building Educational Applications

  • Program Committee member, CIKM 2023 Demo Track.

  • Reviewer, 9th Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE 2023), Satellite Workshop of INTERSPEECH.

  • Teaching Assistant - Data Base Management Systems Winter 2021, IIIT Delhi

  • Teaching Assistant - Machine Learning Winter 2022, IIIT Delhi

Looking forward to hear from you!

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