Muskaan Singh

Muskaan Singh is a Lecturer in Data Analytics at the Intelligent Systems Research Centre (ISRC) within the School of Computing, Engineering and Intelligent Systems at Ulster University. A member of the Cognitive Analytics Research Lab (CARL), her work bridges Natural Language Processing (NLP), Artificial Intelligence, and Practical Applications in domains ranging from machine translation to biomedical diagnostics.

• Education:
  • PhD in Machine Translation (Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, 2016-2020)
  • Master’s in Machine Translation (IIIT Hyderabad, India)

Her research spans NLP and AI with applications in code-switched language modeling, depression detection, social media analytics, and medical diagnostics. She has developed multilingual tools for automatic minuting, including DeepCon and ALIGNMEET, and contributed to EU-funded projects like ROXANNE (criminal network analysis) and ELITR (European Live Translator).

Key scientific awards include first prizes in international NLP competitions (EVAL4NLP, LT-EDI, SMM4H) and recognition at EMNLP, ACL, and COLING. She received the Inclusion and Diversity Grant (EMNLP 2021) and GHC Scholarship (2019). Current projects include AI-EPOCMON (AI-Enabled Point-of-Care Monitoring) and T3-NCP (crime prevention for safer communities).

Dr. Singh has supervised grants from UKRI and Alzheimer’s Research UK, focusing on AI for health and IT operations. Her team at ISRC collaborates globally with institutions in Switzerland, Czech Republic, and India. She also leads research for the Center for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence at IIIT Lucknow, India.