Summary
Prajna Upadhyay is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science & Information Systems at BITS Pilani, Hyderabad, with a decade of experience spanning academic research and applied projects in information extraction and retrieval. She earned a PhD from IIT Delhi and built TeKnowbase, an open-source knowledge base for Computer Science whose features have demonstrably improved technical text classification, article ranking, and aspect-based recommendation. Her postdoctoral work at Inria and research on prerequisite and reading-order modeling bring practical advances to educational search and curriculum design by introducing granular, facet-aware prerequisite relationships. Beyond academia she teaches yoga professionally, blending analytical rigor with a commitment to well-being. Prajna’s work uniquely bridges knowledge-graph construction from heterogeneous web and textbook sources with information retrieval models that outperform standard keyword, diversification, and some neural baselines.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi)
RYT200, RYT200 at Bodhi School - India
Master of Technology (M.Tech.), Distributed Systems, Agent Oriented Software Engineering, 9.69, Master of Technology (M.Tech.), Distributed Systems, Agent Oriented Software Engineering, 9.69 at National Institute of Technology Durgapur
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Information Technology, 83.2%, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Information Technology, 83.2% at Assam University, Silchar
English, Hindi, Nepali, Assamese, Bengali