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Smita Bhattacharya

Research associate P6 "Political Discourse"

Smita Bhattacharya joined in June 2025 as a junior researcher in the project “Communicative AI and Deliberative Quality” led by Dr. Gregor Wiedemann. She holds a bachelor’s degree in information technology and worked as a data analyst for three years. After that, she studied data science and artificial intelligence at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science at Saarland University.

She completed her master’s thesis on “Identifying skills in Constructed Responses with Explainable NLP models” under the supervision of  Prof. Dr. Hendrik Drachsler and Prof. Dr. Vera Demberg.

During her studies, she also worked in different applications of NLP as a Graduate Research Assistant at Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education, Fraunhofer IAIS and University of Hildesheim.