Snigdha Chaturvedi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She previously held faculty positions at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and has conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Pennsylvania and University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. PhD in Computer Science from University of Maryland, College Park Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur Her research spans Natural Language Processing with emphasis on Narrative Understanding , Text Summarization , and Socially Aware Language Generation . She advances Fairness in AI through ethical NLP applications in Mental Health and Educational Technology . Recent work focuses on 2025 publications in ACL and NAACL journals, alongside 2024 contributions to EMNLP Findings and ICLR . Earlier projects include the NarraSum dataset (2022) and MOOC forum analysis (2020). Scientific recognitions include: ACM Student Research Competition First Place (2014) IBM PhD Fellowship (2014-2015, renewed in 2015) Kulkarni Summer Research Fellowship (2015) WPI STEM Faculty Launch Program Participant (2015) Her team has advised 13 PhD and Master's students with notable placements at Bloomberg, AI2, and University of Southern California. Research integrates Accessibility challenges through collaborations with Google and IBM labs.







