Kokil Jaidka
Associate Professor, CNM Affiliate Professor, Institute Of Data Science
Singapore
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Top SchoolKokil Jaidka is an Associate Professor and CNM Affiliate Professor at the National University of Singapore with 11 years of experience at the intersection of computational linguistics and social media research. He leads research on computational and linguistic approaches to online communication and organizes the CL-Aff shared task on modeling human emotion from language. Kokil combines academic rigor from a PhD at Nanyang Technological University and postdoctoral training at UPenn with industry experience as a computer scientist at Adobe, enabling practical, data-driven work on human language technologies. He routinely supervises and hires research assistants and graduate students for six-month hands-on projects, supporting both on-campus and remote collaborations. Known for bridging NLP methods with social network and information behavior analysis, he seeks self-driven, idea-led students who can lead projects end-to-end. Based in Singapore, he brings a rare mix of applied research leadership, teaching program coordination, and community-building in emotion and social-computational modeling.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, PhD at Nanyang Technological UniversityB.E., B.E. at Punjab Engineering CollegeCarmel Convent School, Chandigarh
Github Skills (23)
pii10
summarization10
corpus10
annotations10
word-embeddings10
lda10
glossary10
natural-language-processing10
nlp10
biomedical10
sentence-similarity10
stream8
streaming6
python6
cl5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
kj2013/social-media-listening
Apr 2016 - Oct 2020
Python code for listening to Streaming APIs
Contributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 10 pushes in 4 years 7 months
python-codepythonlisteningstreamingstream
kj2013/claff-offmychest
Aug 2019 - May 2020
Contributions:23 commits, 34 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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