Talks

• Ratna Kandala & Katie Hoemann. Using Contextual Embeddings to Map the Rich Topography of Everyday Emotion. Women in Machine Learning (WiML) Symposium, International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Vancouver, Canada, JULY 2025 (Accepted)

• Katie Hoemann & Ratna Kandala. Using language to study the ecology of emotion in everyday life, 17th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC), Buenos Aires, Argentina, JULY 2025 (Accepted)

• Katie Hoemann & Ratna Kandala. Characterizing the breadth and diversity of everyday emotional events. Conference of the Society of Ambulatory Assessment (SAA) 2025, Leuven, Belgium, MAY 2025

• Ratna Kandala & Katie Hoemann. What's Hidden in Flemish Stories: How Can LLMs Unveil the Affective Nuances in Daily Narratives? Poster presented at the New England NLP (NENLP) Meeting 2025, Yale University, New Haven, USA, APRIL 2025

• Katie Hoemann & Ratna Kandala, Toward an Ecology of Emotion in Everyday Life, Society for Affective Science (SAS) Annual Conference, Portland, Oregon, USA, MARCH 2025

• Ratna Kandala. How does our brain juggle free word order in sentence processing? Presented at the Three-Minute Talk as a part of KHOJ24 Research Scholars' Day, IIT Hyderabad, India, FEB 2024

• Ratna Kandala. How does our brain juggle free word order in sentence processing?  Presented at the Five Minute Linguist (5ML) event at the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meet 2024, New York City, USA, JAN 2024 Finalist

• Ratna Kandala. On the Implementation of the Algorithm for Representation of Discontinuity in Natural Language. 5th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICNLP) Guangzhou, China, MAR 2023 Best Presentation Award

• Ratna Kandala. The Representation of Discontinuity and the Correspondence Principle. 36th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information, and Computation (PACLIC36), Manila, Philippines, OCT 2022 (Online)

• Ratna Kandala. Choice of Discipline and English Language Proficiency Levels. National Seminar on Innovative Practices and Research in the Era of Digi Education, University of Hyderabad, India, MAR 2019 

• Ratna Kandala. Academic Background, Language Proficiency and Choice of Discipline: An Exploration. National Seminar on Interfaces in English Language Studies: Research and Practice, University of Hyderabad, India, FEB 2019 

• Ratna Kandala. Modeling the Mushroom Body Circuitry to understand the role of feedback mechanisms from the alpha and beta lobes to the calyx. Graduate Research Seminar, School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad, India, MAY 2017

• Ratna Kandala & Ankit Kumar, Memory Retrieval by Activating Engram Cells in Mouse Models of Early Alzheimer’s disease. Poster presented at the GIAN Workshop on Ionic Signaling, SLS, University of Hyderabad, India, JULY 2016 Second Best Poster Award

Invited Talks:

• Ratna Kandala. Comparing Topic Modeling Approaches Using Belgian-Dutch Daily Narratives, BBQ Prosem Seminar Series, Department of Psychology, University of Kansas, USA, MARCH 2025

• Ratna Kandala. On the Implementation of the Algorithm for Representation of Discontinuity in Natural Language. Inter-IIT Tech Meet, IIT Madras, India, DEC 2023 (Paper Presented in Absentia by Harsh Goyal)

(Below: 5ML event, LSA Annual Meet 2024, NYC)