Scholar
Mandira Sawkar
Google Scholar ID: lbaywYoAAAAJ
Rochester Institute of Technology
Citations & Impact
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Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- The Sound of Suffrage - Modeling Gender and Power in Parliamentary Speech (August 2025, Collaborators: Omar Khursheed, Dr. Ashique KhudaBukhsh)
- Beyond Hallucinations: A Multi-Agent Approach To Fact-Checked AI Knowledge (May 2025)
- Detecting Deception: Intelligent Systems for Fighting Misinformation (May 2025, Collaborators: Leona Joseph, Vivek Senthil)
- LLM-as-a-SupremeCourt-Judge (December 2024)
- AI Alignment in Criminal Justice - Fair Jury Selection and Deliberation (December 2024, Collaborators: Leona Joseph, Shrid Pant)
- Interpretable Parking Ticket Location Classifier (January 2023)
- Product Shipping Status Classifier (December 2022)
- Cancer Detection as a Microservice (December 2022)
- getPaid (November 2022)
Research Experience
- ML Innovations at Kloud9: Engineered and validated 50+ features for a ghost inventory prediction model, hitting 92% accuracy and cutting stock discrepancies by 10%. Analyzed ~10 massive datasets (millions of rows) using PySpark and Pandas, boosting model stability by 15% and reducing processing time from 3 hours to 20 minutes per batch. Mentored 5+ interns on ML best practices, leading to 3 full-time conversions and a stronger data-driven culture.
- Innovative Automation: Taught myself PowerShell + Power Automate under tight deadlines to build a CLI tool that automated the creation of thousands of business-critical employee records.
- Data-Driven Accuracy: Shifted manual database validations to a Python/Pandas pipeline, processing huge employee/project datasets with lightning speed and near-zero errors.
- Agile Educator: Transferred my teaching expertise into tech; trained interns, mentored cross-functional teams, and helped redesign 50+ lesson plans for a network of 12 schools.
- French Diplomat Meets Techie: Guided 100+ students in choosing the right educational paths, then dived into Software Engineering to solve real-world problems with data-driven solutions.
Education
- Rochester Institute of Technology
Background
- From French diplomacy to data innovation, Mandira Sawkar started out translating languages at the French Embassy and championing international partnerships, until she rediscovered another language that lit a spark: code. Watching lines of Python shape the world around her felt as revolutionary as bridging different cultures. That moment changed everything.
Miscellany
- Current fascinations include Multilingual NLP, Machine Learning & AI, Big Data Pipelines, and Collaboration.
