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Ratna Kandala
Postdoc, University of Kansas
Joined
February 2023
Names
Ratna Kandala
(Preferred)
,
Ratna Nirupama
Emails
****@iith.ac.in
(Confirmed)
,
****@gmail.com
(Confirmed)
,
****@ku.edu
(Confirmed)
Personal Links
Homepage
Google Scholar
DBLP
LinkedIn
Semantic Scholar
ACL Anthology
Career & Education History
Postdoc
University of Kansas
(ku.edu)
2024
–
Present
PhD student
Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad
(iith.ac.in)
2019
–
2024
MS student
University of Hyderabad
(uohyd.ernet.in)
2012
–
2017
Advisors, Relations & Conflicts
Coauthor
Joyojeet Pal
Present
Coauthor
Akshata Kishore Moharir
Present
Coauthor
Jeffrey M. Girard
Present
Postdoc Advisor
Katie Hoemann
2024
–
Present
PhD Advisor
Prakash Mondal
2019
–
2024
Expertise
Natural Language Processing
Present
Computational Social Science
Present
Neuroscience
Present
Responsible AI
Present
Affective Computing
Present
Human Computer Interaction (HCI)
Present
Publications
A Vision for Cultural Alignment: Opportunities and Safety Imperatives for AI in Mental Health Support
Ratna Kandala
,
Akshata Kishore Moharir
,
Niva Manchanda
,
Samantha Adorno
Culture x AI 2026 Poster
Readers:
Everyone
Milking the Metaphors: Cultural Obfuscation in Wellness (COW) around Gomutra on YouTube using LLMs
Anamta Khan
,
Ratna Kandala
,
Deepti
,
Sheza Munir
,
Joyojeet Pal
SocialLLM Workshop @ ICWSM 2026
Readers:
Everyone
Designing Explainable Conversational Agentic Systems for Guarani Speakers
Samantha Adorno
,
Akshata Kishore Moharir
,
Ratna Kandala
SocialLLM Workshop @ ICWSM 2026
Readers:
Everyone
Let’s Talk, Not Type: An Oral-First Multi-Agent Architecture for Guarani
Samantha Adorno
,
Akshata Kishore Moharir
,
Ratna Kandala
MALGAI
Readers:
Everyone
Know the Patient, Not Just the Disease: Modeling Human Mental States Through Graph-Based Relational Reasoning
Ratna Kandala
,
Akshata Kishore Moharir
,
Niva Manchanda
HCAIR 2026
Readers:
Everyone
Embedding Emotions: Measuring What Matters in Flemish Daily Stories
Ratna Kandala
,
Katie Hoemann
WiML @ NeurIPS 2025
Readers:
Everyone
LLMs vs. Traditional Sentiment Tools in Psychology: An Evaluation on Belgian-Dutch Narratives
Ratna Kandala
,
Katie Hoemann
NeurIPS 2025 LLM Evaluation Workshop Poster
Readers:
Everyone
From Algorithm to Alliance: A Blueprint for Responsible and Explainable AI in Mental Health Screening
Akshata Kishore Moharir
,
Ratna Kandala
WiML @ NeurIPS 2025
Readers:
Everyone
XAI: Explaining How AI Makes Decisions
Ratna Kandala
,
Akshata Kishore Moharir
NeurIPS-25 Education
Readers:
Everyone
The Representation of Discontinuity and the Correspondence Principle
Ratna Nirupama
,
Prakash Mondal
PACLIC 2022
Readers:
Everyone
Co-Authors
Akshata Kishore Moharir
Anamta Khan
Deepti
Joyojeet Pal
Katie Hoemann
Niva Manchanda
Prakash Mondal
Samantha Adorno
Sheza Munir