Girish Arun Koushik

About me

I am a PhD student at the University of Surrey in the UK working on A Robust Multimodal Framework for Hate Speech Detection on Social Media Platforms under the supervision of Dr. Diptesh Kanojia and Prof. Helen Treharne.

I received a Master's degree in Advanced Computer Science with Artificial Intelligence from the University of Strathclyde, UK in 2023. I also have a Bachelor's degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the RV College of Engineering in Bengaluru, India.

I became a Chess Grandmaster in 2019 and an International Master in 2013. I have won several national and international chess tournaments. For more information, see my Chess page.

My CV can be found here.

Recent updates

  • Our Paper titled Natural Language Reinforcement Learning was published on arXiv - Feb 2024
  • Participated in the CIUK 2023 Cluster Challenge representing the University of Strathclyde (Team "StrathClust") and secured third place - Dec 2023
  • Graduated MSc with Distinction from the University of Strathclyde on October 30th 2023 - Oct 2023
  • Started PhD at the University of Surrey on September 16th 2023 - Sept 2023