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Vinti Agarwal

Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science & Information Systems, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus

AI/NLP in Healthcare, Complex Network Analysis, Graph Neural Networks, Large Language models-Reliability/Explainability, Material Discovery, Natural Language Processing
Office : 6121D, New Academic Building,
Department of Computer Science & Information Systems,
Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani- 333031, Rajasthan. India.

About the Faculty

Vinti Agarwal is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems at BITS Pilani and leads a GraphAI research group at BITS Pilani, India. Prior to this, She worked as postdoctoral researcher at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). She completed Ph.D. in Computer Science from the JawaharLal Nehru University, New Delhi, India and has 7+ years teaching/research experience and has co/supervised 25+ undergraduate, postgraduate and PhD students at NTNU Norway and BITS Pilani. Her research expertise lies in modelling complex data relationships into graphs and using machine learning for predictions or discovering new patterns in data coming from a variety of sources, e.g., social networks, drug repurposing, social determinants of health (SDH), etc. She has published widely in peer- reviewed journals with 10+ peer-reviewed publications and teaches a postgraduate course on graph mining.

Application areas:

Natural Language Processing, Complex Network Analysis, Graph Neural Networks, Large Language models-Reliability/Explainability, Material Discovery, AI/NLP in Healthcare

Experience

Jan 2026-present

Associate Professor

Department of Computer Science and Information Systems

Birla Institute of Science and Technology, Pilani, Rajasthan India.

 

Mar 2020-Dec 2025

Assistant Professor

Department of Computer Science and Information Systems

Birla Institute of Science and Technology, Pilani, Rajasthan India.

Jan 2018-Dec 2019

Postdoctoral researcher,

Supervisors: Prof. Katrin Franke, Dr. Martin Eian,

Institute for Information and Communication Technology, 

Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Gjovik, Norway. 

Jan 2016-Dec 2017

Assistant professor,

Department of Computer Science, Maitreyi College, Delhi University, India