Affective Computing for Social Good

Muskan Garg is a postdoctoral research fellow at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota. She previously worked as postdoctoral research associate at University of Florida and as an assistant professor in Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala. Her research focuses on the problems in natural language processing, information retrieval, and social media analysis. She received her Masters and PhD from Panjab University, India. Prior to TIET, she worked as an assistant professor in Amity School of Engineering and Technology at Amity University. Her focus is on research and development of cutting-edge NLP approaches to solving problems of national and international importance and on initiation and broadening a new program in natural language processing (including a new NLP course series).  Her current research interests are causal inference, mental health on social media, event detection and sentiment analysis. She contributes as a reviewer in peer reviewed journals and conferences. She has published 40+ publications in top tier venues including ACL, ICWSM, IEEE SMC, Journal of Biomedical Informatics, Expert Systems with Applications, Knowledge based Systems, Journal of Alzheimer's Disease and Asian Journal of Psychiatry. She has published over five books and book chapters on NLP and healthcare.

Rajesh Prasad is Professor (CSE) and Associate Dean (Engineering) at MIT Art, Design, and Technology University, Pune. He has more than 27 years of academic and research experience. He is an active senior member of IEEE and a chartered engineer from IE. He is instrumental in developing the curriculum and contents. He is associated with several universities in different roles. He is Ph.D. in Computer Engineering. He has published more than 90 papers in international and national journals. His area of interest is in Text and Data Analysis, Speech Processing, etc. He has authored over ten books and book chapters. He has been associated with industries for research collaborations. He is an active member of various professional societies (ISTE, IEEE, CSI, etc.).  His biography was published by Marquis Publication USA in Sept 2009. He has served as Research Review committee members in renowned universities like Symbiosis International University, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Bharath University etc. 

Chapter 1 The Science of Emotion: Decoding and Analysis of Human Emotional Landscape.- Chapter 2 The Synergy of Clinical Psychology and Affective Computing: Advancements in Emotion Recognition and Therapy.- Chapter 3 Affective Computing in Mood Disorders: Beyond Conventional Diagnostic Tools to Modern Technologies.- Chapter 4 The Role of Affective Computing in Social Justice: Harnessing Equity and Inclusion.- Chapter 5 Exploring the Ethical Dimensions and Societal Consequences of Affective Computing.- Chapter 6 Natural Language Processing for Emotion Recognition and Analysis.- Chapter 7 From Data to Emotions: Affective Computing in Voice Emotion Detection.- Chapter 8 Visual Emotion Recognition Through Affective Computing.- Chapter 9 Affective Computing for Health Management via Recommender Systems: Exploring Challenges and Opportunities.- Chapter 10 Personalized Well-being Interventions (PWIs): A New Frontier in Mental Health.- Chapter 11 Enhancing Affective Computing in NLP through Data Augmentation: Strategies for Overcoming Limited Data Availability.- Chapter 12 Advancements in Multimodal Emotion Recognition: Integrating Facial Expressions and Physiological Signals.- Chapter 13 Ethical Considerations in Affective Computing.- Chapter 14 The Horizon of Consciousness for Affective Computing: Future Trends and Possibilities.