Girish Arun Koushik
PhD student at the University of Surrey
I am a PhD student at the University of Surrey in the UK. My research focuses on developing a robust multimodal framework for hate speech detection on social media platforms. I am supervised by Dr. Diptesh Kanojia and Prof. Helen Treharne.
Prior to my doctoral studies, I earned a Master’s degree in Advanced Computer Science with Artificial Intelligence from the University of Strathclyde (UK) in 2023 and a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from RV College of Engineering in Bengaluru, India.
Beyond academia, I am a passionate chess player. I became a Grandmaster in 2019 and an International Master in 2013, and I have won numerous national and international tournaments. Learn more on the chess page.
You can download my full CV here.
news
- Received the Best Paper Award at the MM4SG workshop during The Web Conference 2025 in Sydney, Australia (Apr 2025). See the announcement on LinkedIn.
- Attended The Web Conference 2025 in Sydney, Australia (Apr 2025).
- Our paper Towards a Robust Framework for Multimodal Hate Detection: A Study on Video vs. Image‑based Content was accepted to the MM4SG workshop at The Web Conference 2025 (Jan 2025).
- Our paper Natural Language Reinforcement Learning was released on arXiv (Feb 2024).
- Team “StrathClust” took third place in the CIUK 2023 Cluster Challenge representing the University of Strathclyde (Dec 2023).
- Graduated with Distinction from the MSc in Advanced Computer Science with Artificial Intelligence at the University of Strathclyde (Oct 2023).
- Started my PhD at the University of Surrey (Sept 2023).