Mrs. Ragini Krishna, is an experienced academician, researcher, mentor, and academic leader with over two decades of experience in engineering education. She is currently serving as Head of the Department of Information Science and Engineering at Sri Krishna Institute of Technology (SKIT), Bengaluru.

Her professional profile is distinguished by a strong combination of research, teaching, academic leadership, student mentoring, and technology-oriented education. Her primary research interests lie in Social Media Analytics, Sentiment Analysis, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Influence Analysis, Text Mining, and Data Analytics.

Mrs. Ragini Krishna has contributed to the field of social network analytics, machine learning, sentiment analysis, and influence analysis through several research publications. Collectively, these publications demonstrate a progressive research trajectory from general influence prediction and social-network analysis towards machine-learning-driven sentiment analysis and context-based positive influence identification on social media. Her work particularly emphasizes the development of more meaningful influencer-identification mechanisms by incorporating context, sentiment, user behaviour, and multiple dimensions of social influence, forming the foundation of her doctoral research on Context-Based Positive Influence on Twitter.

Research Interests

Mrs. Ragini Krishna's major research interests include:

Primary Research Areas

• Context-Based Social Media Influence

• Positive Influencer Identification

• Sentiment Analysis

• Social Media Analytics

• Natural Language Processing

• Machine Learning

• Text Mining

• Data Analytics

• Social Network Analysis

• User Behaviour Analysis

Emerging Research Areas

• AI-driven Social Media Analytics

• Explainable Influence Analysis

• Context-Aware Machine Learning

• Multidomain Sentiment Classification

• Intelligent Social Network Analysis