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Dr. Sheela Ramanna is a Professor and Chair of the Applied Computer Science Graduate Program at the University of Winnipeg, with an adjunct appointment in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Manitoba. She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Kansas State University (2003), an M.S. in Computer Science (1998), and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering (1996) from Osmania University, India.
- Adjunct Professor, University of Manitoba
- Professor & Chair, University of Winnipeg Graduate Program
Her research focuses on Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Soft Computing (Rough Sets, Fuzzy-Rough Sets, Tolerance-based Methods) with applications in Multimodal Information Processing, Natural Language Processing, and Topological Data Analysis. She has developed novel tolerance near-set algorithms for sentiment classification, named entity recognition, and community detection in social networks.
Recent publications include 2025 work on speech emotion recognition, 2024 studies on diabetic retinopathy detection and plant species recognition, and 2023 research on text summarization and NLP applications. Her work spans 15+ peer-reviewed articles in journals like Scientific Reports, Information Fusion, and Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence.
Scientific Awards include the UW Merit Award for Exceptional Performance (multiple years), MITACS Globalink Research Intern (2024), and 3MT People's Choice Award (2018). She has served as Editor for EAAI Journal, Associate Editor for KES Journal, and Organizing Co-Chair for ISCMI 2025.
She supervises 22+ graduate students and postdocs, including Vrushang Patel (President's Scholarship), Habib Ben Abdallah (MITACS Fellow), and Anil Rahate (collaborative PhD with SIT Pune). Her NSERC-funded projects include precipitation forecasting with WeatherLogics Inc., road condition classification, and LULC mapping using satellite imagery.
