CONTACT INFO
Fazel Keshtkar, Ph.D., Associate Professor
St. John's University, Dept. of Computer Science
Address: 8000 Utopia Pkwy, Augustine Hall, CCPS 2-094, Queens, NY 11439
Email: keshtkaf [at] stjohns [dot] edu Voice: (718)-990-3718
Recent News:
ABET Program Evaluator: ABET
Member of Meta Open Innovation AI Research Community [url]
Information Director of ACM Digital Gov. Journal: Digital Gov
Dr. Keshtkar is Organizer of ANLP ST in Flairs-37: https://sites.google.com/view/flairs-anlp/anlp-2024
Dr. Keshtkar is Conf. Co-chair in FLAIRS-36, 2023, CFP: https://www.flairs-36.info/
Dr. Keshtkar is Organizer of ANLP ST in Flairs-36: https://sites.google.com/view/flairs-anlp/anlp-2023
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EDUCATION
Ph.D., Computer Science, 2011
University of Ottawa, Canada. Advisor: Dr. Diana Inkpen
M.Sc., Computer Science, 2007
University of Ottawa, Canada. Advisor: Dr. Wail Gueaieb
EMPLOYMENT & EXPERIENCE
Associate Professor (Tenured): 2020 —
Dept. of Computer Science, St. John's University
Adjunct Professor: 2023 —
School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (EECS), University of Ottawa, Canada
Assistant Professor: 2016 — 2020
Dept. of Computer Science, St. John's University
Assistant Professor: 2013 — 2016
Dept. of Computer Science, Southeast Missouri State University
Research Scientist: 2011 — 2013
Generative AI, LLMs, and their application
Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Natural Language Generation (NLG), Understanding (NLU)
Machine Learning
Data Mining
Information Retrieval (IR) and Extraction (IE)
Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS)
Intelligent Tutoring Robots (ITR)
Human Robot Interaction (HRI)
Educational Data Mining (EDM)
Application of AI and Machine Learning in Energy Management Systems.
PROSPECTIVE Students, Postdocs, and Visiting Scholars
if you are interested in my research and would like to do exciting and fun projects, please feel free to email me keshtkaf [at] stjohns [dot] edu
I would appreciate it if you could provide the following info:
Your CV/Resume
Your interest and programming skills.
The project or field you would like to work on.
Please note that financial aid is competitive and is subject to the availability of sufficient funds.