Oswald. C
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
National Institute of Technology (NIT) Tiruchirappalli
Tiruchirappalli 620015. Tamil Nadu.


Official oswald [at] nitt [dot] edu +91 (432) 250
Personal oswald [dot] mecse [at] gmail [dot] com +91 -
Curriculum Vitae
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Research Interests


  • Data Mining
    • Text Mining
    • Graph Embedding
    • Classification of Text/Image Data

  • Machine Learning for Social Media Analytics
    • Fake News Detection
    • Multimodal Hate Speech detection for Memes
    • Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology (Depression/Self-harm/Divorce Prediction)

  • Data Compression through the perspective of Pattern Mining
    • Text Compression
    • Image Compression
    • Graph Compression

  • Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing
    • Tamil
    • Ontology and Knowledge Graph
    • Question-Answering for Epics

  • Human-Computer Interaction
    • Design of CAPTCHA’s
    • Design of Loading Bars



Invited Events


  • Talk on AI and ML in Robotics at Karpaga Vinayaga College of Engineering and Technology, Chennai
  • Talk on Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Creativity at CMR Technical Campus Hyderabad
  • Talk on Career Opportunities for budding Engineering Graduates at Sona College of Technology, Salem and Kongunadu College of Engineering, Trichy.
  • Talk on Data Science at Solamalai college of Engineering, Madurai.
  • Talk on An Introduction to Supervised and Unsupervised Learning at Guru Nanak College, Chennai and SRM University, Chennai.
  • Talk on Machine Learning at KGiSL Institute of Technology, Coimbatore.
  • Talk on An Informal Introduction to Machine Learning and Reinforcement Learning at NIT Tiruchirappalli.
  • Talk on Types of Itemsets and their algorithms, Workshop DAMI' 2018 at IIITDM Kancheepuram
  • CODS’15, CODS'16, VLDB'16, CODS'14 and CODS’18 through travel grants from ACM SIGKDD
  • Doctoral Committee Member for various Institutes.


Events Organized


  • 5 days Self sponsored National workshop on "Machine Learning and Data Science - Techniques and Trends" at NIT Tiruchirappalli from 26 - 30 June, 2023 (Co-organized with Dr. J. Pavan Kumar)
  • One Day National Level Workshop on "Pixels on Point" at VIT Chennai on Feb 22, 2020
  • Industrial Guest Lectures on Data Structures and Algorithms in LinkedIn, Problem Solving techniques in Google, VIT Chennai.