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Dr. Sukhada

Assistant Professor
Department of Humanistic Studies IIT (BHU)
Phone No(s): Office: 716-5065
Email: sukhada.hss@iitbhu.ac.in
Area of Interest: Indian Knowledge Systems, Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, Machine Translation, Vedic Philosophy, Sixteen Saṃskāras
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Dr. Sukhada is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanistic Studies at IIT(BHU), Varanasi. She did her PhD in Computational Linguistics from the International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad. She has received the traditional degrees of Vyakaranacharya & Niruktacharya from Arsha Shodha Sansthana, Hyderabad.
She is a core member of the group that developed Anusaaraka: A Language Accessor cum Machine Translation System.
Her primary research interests lie in Machine Translation, Natural Language Processing, application of the Indian grammatical framework to modern technologies, Sanskrit Computational Linguistics, Vedic philosophy, Human Values, Health and the 16 sanskaras.

    Watch her interview with DD Varanasi:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJQb8xT15DI&t=0s

    Watch her interview with DD  News:     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZH9q5_XdYE  

    Her Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@indianknowledgesystem9522  

 

 

 

Peer Reviewed Journal:
  • Jha P, Sukhada S. From Stillness to Struggle: The Role of Sattva, Rajas, and Tamas in Shaping Emotional Experience. Int Res J Multidiscip Scope. 2025; 6(4):1089-1102. doi: 10.47857/irjms.2025.v06i04.06640
     
  • Sukhada, Shatrunjay Rawat, Sharda S. Nandram. The Spiritual Theory of Human Pursuits: Puruṣārtha Chatuṣṭaya.  Int. J. of Indian Culture and Business Management.  2024. DOI: 10.1504/IJICBM.2024.10065913

  • Sukhada, Soma Paul. Theory of sāmarthya in Indian grammatical tradition: The foundation of universal semantic representation. International Journal of Sanskrit Research, 2023;9(6):17-22. 2023. DOI:  https://doi.org/10.22271/23947519.2023.v9.i6a.2235
     
  • Roy, S. Sukhada. Singh, Anil Kr. 'Constructive Use of Punctuation in Indian English News headlines'. Journal of Language and Linguistics. March, 2022. 
     
  • Sharda S. Nandram,  Puneet K. Bindlish, Sukhada, Arjun Kumar Shrestha. Spirituality led Ethical Decision making with Yogic Yamas and Niyamas. In: Journal of Management, Spirituality & Religion. (Accepted/In press), (2021), DOI: https://doi.org/10.51327/EHZW1674
     
  • Sharda S. Nandram, Sukhada, Ankur Joshi, Puneet K. Bindlish. Understanding Human Values through Integrative Dialogue: The method of Śāstrārtha. In: Global Perspectives on Indian Spirituality and Management - The Legacy of S.K.Chakraborty, Dr. Sanjoy Mukherjee and Prof. László Zsolnai (Editors), (Accepted/In press), (2021), DOI: 10.1007/978-981-19-1158-3_8
     
  • Sharda Nandram, Ankur Joshi, Sukhada, Vishwanath Dhital. Delivering Holistic Education for Contemporary Times: Banasthali Vidyapith and Gurukula System, International Journal of Business and Globalisation. 2019
     
  • Sukhada and Dipti M Sharma, Analyzing English Phrases from Paninian Perspective, 17th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLing 2016) April 3-9, 2016 in Konya, Turkey, in a special issue of the journal Research in Computing Science (RCS),
    www.rcs.cic.ipn.mx
 
Book Chapter:
  • Sukhada, S., Nandram, S.S., Bindlish, P.K. (2025). Enriching the Discourse on Sustainable Development Through the Lenses of Puruṣārtha Catuṣṭaya. In: Zsolnai, L. (eds) Spirituality and Business in the Anthropocene. Palgrave Studies in Sustainable Business In Association with Future Earth. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. pg 105–113.  https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-91203-0_5
     
  • Nandram, S.S., Sukhada, S., Joshi, A., Bindlish, P.K. (2022). Understanding Human Values through Integrative Dialogue: The Śāstrārtha Method. In: Mukherjee, S., Zsolnai, L. (eds) Global Perspectives on Indian Spirituality and Management. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-1158-3_8
     
  • Akshar Bharati, Sukhada, Dipti M. Sharma, and Soma Paul, Sanskrit and Computational Linguistics, chapter Anusaaraka Dependency Schema from Paninian Perspective, D. K. Publishers, 2015, 16th World Sanskrit Conference, 28th June to 2nd July 2015
Conference Papers:
  1. Soma Paul, Sukhada Sukhada, Bidisha Bhattacharjee, Kumari Riya, Sashank Tatavolu, Kamesh R, Isma Anwar, Pratibha Rani. Indian Grammatical Tradition-Inspired Universal Semantic Representation Bank (USR Bank 1.0). In 1st Workshop on BHASHA: Benchmarks, Harmonization, Annotation, and Standardization for Human-Centric AI in Indian Languages BHASHA 2025
     
  2. Sukhada, Sharda Nandram, Shatrunjay Rawat. Unveiling Vedic Wisdom for Innovative Management Practices. Spirituality & Business in the Anthropocene Era. 20th Anniversary European SPES Conference, June 20-22, 2024, Budapest, Hungary
     
  3. Soma Paul, Sukhada, Kumari Riya, Adepu Varshith Kumar, Sanyam Jha, Isma Anwar. An Indian-Grammatical-Tradition Based Discourse Relation Marking Tool for Hindi. 2024. 7th International Sanskrit Computational Linguistics Symposium. Feb. 15-17, 2024. Auroville, Puducherry, India
     
  4. Sukhada, Veera Hymavathi Sirisipalli and Soma Paul. Generation of MRS Abstract Predicates from Paninian USR (Accepted). HPSG 2023: 30th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar. University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA. July 2023.
     
  5. Kirti Garg, Soma Paul, Sukhada, Fatema Bawahir and Riya Kumari. Evaluation of Universal Semantic Representation (USR). DMR 2023, The 4th International Workshop on Designing Meaning Representation. in Nancy, France. June 2023.
     
  6. Sukhada, Soma Paul, Rahul Kumar and Karthik Puranik, Semantics of Spatio-Directional Geometric Terms of Indian Languages. Accepted & Published in International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON), December 2021, https://aclanthology.org/2021.icon-main.44/
     
  7. Prashant Priyadarshi, Samapika Roy, Sukhada, Typo-syntactic diferences amongst Hindi, Maithili and Bangla, 2019, South Asian Language Analysis Roundtable  (SALA-35), Paris, France.
     
  8. Samapika Roy, Sukhada, A.K.Singh, Linguistics Analysis of Indian English News headlines, Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology, CALA 2020, Bintulu, Malaysia. 2020
     
  9. Prashant Priyadarshi, Samapika Roy, Sukhada., Polarity in Maithili, Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology, CALA 2020, Bintulu, Malaysia. 2020
     
  10. Sriram Chaudhury, Sukhada and Akshar Bharati, OpenLogos Machine Translation: Exploring and using it in Anusaaraka platform, Information Systems for Indian Languages. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011. 68-73.
     
  11. Sukhada, Soma Paul, and Akshar Bharati, Translation of TO infinitives in Anusaaraka Platform: an English Hindi MT system Accepted & Published in International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON), December 2014
     
  12. Sukhada, Prajna Jha, Soma Paul and Dipti M. Sharma, Applying Sanskrit Concepts for Reordering in MT, International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON-2015) 11-14 December 2015
     
  13. Sukhada, Dipti M Sharma, Amba Kulkarni, Akshar Bharati, Phrases in English – A Pada in Paninian Grammar, 15th World Sanskrit Conference, New Delhi, Inida, 2012

Article:

  • Article “अनुसारक: भाषाई समस्याओं से निपटने का एक उपकरण", published in “Paropakarini” a bi-monthly Hindi magazine, 2016.

Editorial Team member:

  • OM RISE (Organizational Management (OM), Research (R), Innovation (I) and Sustainable Entrepreneurship (SE)), in The Netherlands (An online magazine from the Chair of Hindu Spirituality and Society Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

  • Vedic Philosophy

  • Human Values

  • Ethics

  • Sixteen Samskaras (Vedic Rituals)

  • Indian Knowledge System

  • Universal Semantic Representation

  • Universal Semantic Grammar

  • Language Communicator: a software that allows one to write in one's own language unambiguously which is delivered to readers in their language

  • Applied Grammar

  • Machine Translation: Anusaaraka

  • Natural Language Processing

Teaching:

  • H-7207-Linguistics Data-Collection and Modeling
  • HPH-306: Introduction to Nitishastras
  • H-7307 Systems of Indian Philosophy-1
  • H-7311 Systems of Indian Philosophy 2
  • H-7309 Philosophy of Language (Western)
  • H-7310 Philosophy of Language (Indian)
  • HVE-310: Values and Ethics
  • HVE-311 Ethics and Holistic life
  • CS-7023: Computer and Scripting-1
  • LLG-305: Sanskrit Bhasha, IIT (BHU)
  • H-101: Universal Human Values-1
  • H-102: Universal Human Values-2
  • H-7209: Samskrit Paninian Grammar
  • LLN-304: Introduction to Machine Translation
  • H-106: Education and Self
  • Paninian Grammar (Arsha-shodha-sansthan Aliabad, Shameerpet, Telangana). Duration: Jan 30th 2004 - May 30th 2005
  • A full semester course on “Computers & Scripting 1” for PG students from Computational Linguistics background (Co-teaching with another researcher at IIIT-Hyderabad) Monsoon Semester 2013
  • A full semester course on “Computational Linguistics 1” for UG and PG students (Along with others at IIIT-Hyderabad), Winter Semester 2013
  • A full semester course on “Human Values 1” for UG students (Along with others at IIIT-Hyderabad), Monsoon Semester 2011-2014
  • A full semester course on “Human Values 1I” for UG students (Along with others at IIIT-Hyderabad), Winter Semester 2012-2015
  • Voluntarily teaching Sanskrit and Human Values to Asha Kiran (a school run by IIIT-Hyderabad students for kids from nearby slums) kids for one semester in 2010
  • Voluntarily teaching Sanskrit and Human Values to Sanskar School (a school at IIIT-Hyderabad that works for a holistic development of a child) kids and other interested people nearby from 2007-2016

 

  • Various institute level awards in sports like badminton, cycling and taekwondo (green belt holder)

  • Various institute level and inter-institute level awards in delivering speech and singing

  • Commendation certificate by IIIT-Hyderabad. The citation reads as: “This commendation certificate is presented to Sukhada (200722002) PhD for her sincere contributions in enriching hostel life, promoting Martial Arts and quietly doing community service and setting up an example in student community”.

  • Pandit Satyanand Vedavagish, Vidvat Samman on 25 January 2025, during the 13th Annual Summit of ‘Vedic Adhyatmik Nyas’, held at Arsh Gurukul Mahavidyalaya, Narmadapuram, M.P., India, for her work in Natural Language Processing.

  • Vidvat Samman on 05th July 2025, during the 24th half-yearly meeting of ‘Vedic Adhyatmik Nyas’, held at Aryodaya Gurukul, Sector 14-15, Sonipat, Haryana, India, for her works in education and promoting the Indian Knowledge System.  

  • Śrīmatī Kamalā Devī Navāla Viduṣī Sammāna, by Paropakarini Sabha on 12th October 2025, during the 142nd Rishi Mela, held at Rishi Udyan, Ajmer, Rajasthan, for her contributions towards bridging the gap between ancient and modern sciences. 
     
  • Springer Women Scientist Award, on 15th October, Wednesday at IIT(BHU), Varanasi, jointly organized by the S D Library, Ministry of Education, ICSSR and Springer Nature, for empowering research for All: Open Access, Open Science, Research Integrity, and promoting diversity and inclusion in research.
     
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  • Co-Organized a Four-day Workshop on Universal Semantic Grammar (USG) for language teachers at Ideal Radiant Public School, Uttam Namar, New Delhi from 24th - 27th June 2024; Sponsored by Ideal Radiant Public School, Uttam Namar, New Delhi
     
  • Co-Organized a 15-day Summer School on “Orienting Ph.D. Scholars  for Research in Sanskrit Wisdom-based Computational Linguistics” from 24th May 2024 to 8th June 2024 at IIIT-Hyderabad, India, Sponsored by Central Sanskrit University, Delhi, India 
     
  • Participated as an expert in a One-day workshop on “Common Tagset for Indian Languages” at Auroville, Pundichery, organized by IIT-Kanpur on 17/02/2024
     
  • Participated as an expert in a One-day Online workshop on “Common Tagset for Indian Languages” organized by IIT-Kanpur on 27/01/2024
     
  • Co-Organized a Two-day Workshop on Various Dimensions of Sanskrit and Computer Science on 13th-14th Jan. 2024 at Veda Vijnana Kendra, BHU. Sponsored by Veda Vijnana Kendra, BHU, Varanasi, India
     
  • Co-Organized a 30-Day Training Workshop on Developing Indian Grammatical Tradition based Universal Semantic Representation Bank (USR-Bank) from 15th Aug. 2023 to 15th Sep. 2023, at IIIT-Hyderabad, India; Sponsored by Central Sanskrit University, Delhi, India 
     
  • Co-Organized a Three day Workshop on Universal Semantic Grammar (USG) for language teachers at Chaman Vatika Gurukul, Ambala from 03rd - 05th July, 2023; Sponsored by Chaman Vatika Gurukul,  Ambala
     
  • Co-Organized a Three day Workshop on Developing Indian Grammatical Tradition based Universal Semantic Representation (USR) from 26th-28th June, 2023; at Prayagraj, Ganganatha Jha Campus of the Central Sanskrit University, Sponsored by Central Sanskrit University, Government of India.
     
  • Co-Organized a Four day Workshop on Universal Semantic Grammar (USG) for language teachers at Golden International School, Rau, Indore; 25th - 29th April. 2023; Sponsored by Golden International School, Rau, Indore
     
  • Co-Organized a two day workshop on MAHAMANA MADAN MOHAN MALAVIYA JI AND HIS CONTRIBUTIONS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY from 14th April - 15tt April 2023, Sponsored by Ministry of Culture, Government of India.
     
  • Organized a Two Day International Workshop on Building an Academic Discipline of Spirituality in Management and Society on 7th & 8th February, 2023 (HYBRID-ONLINE), with collaboration from scholars from Bolivia, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Nepal, The Netherlands, US. 
     
  • Co-Organized a three-week long summer workshop on Verbal Awareness and Computation (VĀC) from 14th May - 2nd June 2018 with colleagues and research students from HSS and CSE, IIT(BHU) for 6th - 8th standard students from Kendriya Vidyalaya, BHU, Varanasi. 
     
  • Co-Organized a one-week long workshop on "IT Shivir" at Vaanaprasth Sadhak Ashram, Rojad Gujarat, India 
     
  • Leaded few session in a one-week long workshop on "Aatma-manthan" from 07-13 Mar. 2015 at Patanjali Yogpeeth Haridwar, India
     
  • Co-Organized a one-week long workshop on "Aatma-manthan Adhyatma Shivir" from June 16-22 2019 at Vaanaprasth Sadhak Ashram, Rojad Gujarat, India 
     
  • Co-Organized an FDP workshop on “Human Values in Sankhya, Yoga and Vedanta” for the teachers of engineering colleges run under a public collegiate university in Lucknow in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh
     
  • An talk on “Deep Understanding of Language with Universal Semantic Representation” on 22nd Nov. 2025, during the Symposium on Digital Humanities: DREAM―Digital Research Empowerment & Advancement in Humanities, held at IIIT Naya Raipur, from 21st Nov. 2025 to 22nd Nov. 2025 
     
  • A talk on “Effective Use of Communication and Language Technologies for Teachers” on 11th Nov. 2025, during a 3-day Workshop-cum-Training on “Testing and Evaluation and Question Item Writing” in Sanskrit at DIET, Sarnath, Varanasi, from 10th to 12th Nov 2025, organized by NATIONAL TESTING SERVICE-INDIA, Central Institute of Indian Languages, [Dept. of Higher Education, MoE, Govt. of India], Manasagangotri, Mysuru-570 006
     
  • A talk on “Education and Self in the context of universities” during the MSR RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM 2025 with the theme “Reimagine Universities’ Roles and Responsibilities: The higher education amid today’s global polycrisis”, a 24h-event scheduled on 30-31 May 2025, Friday and Saturday, online, organized by The Management Spirituality and Religion (MSR) Division and Academy of Management (AOM) Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
     
  • A talk on “Social Wellbeing, Self-care & Personal Growth” on 26th Feb. 2025 during the Online Faculty Development Program on Life Skills for Educators under the Malaviya Mission Teacher Training Program (MM-TTP), scheduled from 24 Feb - 1 Mar 2025, organized by the Centre for Faculty Development & Educational Technology (CFDET) (formerly Teaching Learning Centre), Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi.
     
  • A talk on “Vedic Wisdom for Harmony in Self and Society” on 06th Feb. 2025 during the FDP on “Indian Knowledge Systems & Universal Human Values” held at NITTTR Chennai
     
  • A talk on “Insights from Indian Knowledge System for Achieving 17 Sustainable Development Goals and 5 Inner Development Goals” during NATIONAL-LEVEL ONE-WEEK ONLINE FACULTY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME ON INDIAN KNOWLEDGE SYSTEM at Seethalakshmi Ramaswami College, Tiruchirappalli, on 27-11-2024
     
  • A talk on “The IKS Approach for Achieving SDGs and IDGs” in the “Foundation Day Programme” of CDAC Mumbai, on Tuesday, 9th April 2024
     
  • A talk in a two day seminar “Various Dimensions of Sanskrit and Computer Science” on 14th Jan. 2024 on “Indian Grammatical Tradition applied for overcoming language barrier in modern context” organized by Veda Vijnana Kendra, BHU, Varanasi, India
     
  • A talk in a two day seminar on  “इन्टरनेट टूल्स के माध्यम से अनुवाद: चुनौतियाँ और समाधान” organized by भारतीय भाषा समिति तथा हिन्दी विभाग, हैदराबाद विश्वविद्यालय on 27th March 2023
     
  • A talk in a Three Day International Seminar from 13th to 15th of February 2023 on “Paninian Grammar and its Applications”  on “Textual Meaning Representation Inspired by IGT” at Central Sanskrit University,  Ganganath Jha Campus; organized by Central Sanskrit University and Karnataka Samskrit University, Bengaluru
     
  • A talk on “Indian Grammatical Tradition and Machine Translation” in a 7 Day Workshop on “Translation Studies: Literary, Scientific and Technical” on 11th February 2023, organised by Department of English, Vasanta College for Women in collaboration with National Translation Mission (NTM), CIIL, Mysore
     
  • A talk in the colloquium of the IKS Center at IIT (BHU) Varanasi on "Indian grammatical tradition and computational linguistics" on 06/01/2023
     
  • A talk on “Sanskrit: A Key to Scientific Knowledge” at IIT(BHU), Varanasi, during the workshop “Artificial Intelligence In Drug Discovery: Quickening The Pace From Bench To Bedside” Under the Accelerate Vigyan scheme of SERB, on 27/05/2022
     
  • A talk on “Information Dynamics in Language” at Usha Pravin Gandhi College of Arts, Science and Commerce, Vile Parle, Mumbai-56. on 22/02/2022
     
  • A talk on “भाषाविज्ञान”  at IIT(BHU), Varanasi, Under “विज्ञान सर्वत्र पूज्यते” initiative of GoI, on 27/02/2022
     
  • A talk on “Indian Knowledge System” at Babu Banarasi Das Engineering College, Lucknow, on 06/12/2021
     
  • A talk on "विज्ञान एवं प्रौद्योगिकी के युग में संस्कृत की उपयोगिता" 30th Sep. 2018 at Sant Gani Nath Rajkiya PG College, Mohammadabad Gohna, Mau, U.P. India 
     
  • A talk on "New Research Directions on Applied Paninian Grammar" during a two-day workshop on "Promoting Applied Research in Samskrit" at IIIT, Hyderabad organized on August 18th-19th 2018
     
  • A talk on "Applied GRAMMAR: A Tool to Overcome Language Barrier" in the workshop entitled "Computer Assisted Analysis of Human Expressions" on March 30-31 2019 at University of Mumbai, India 
     
  • A talk on "Language and Sanskrit” in the Student Induction Program organized for the new UG students through out India by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), conducted on 18-11-2020
     
  • A talk on "Karaka Relations in Paninian Grammar” in the Student Induction Program organized for the new UG students through out India by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), conducted on 18-11-2020
     
  • Was invited to participate as a panellist in Data Science Applications Session 1 on "Image, Video, and Textual Data Analytics: Current and Future Trends" held on 13.10.2020 by the organisers of Vaishwik Bharatiya Vaigyanik Summit, A Global Summit of Overseas and Resident Indian Scientists and Academicians
  • Interview with Doordarshan Varanasi in Hindi on "विज्ञान एवं प्रौद्योगिकी के युग में संस्कृत में निहित परंपरागत ज्ञान विज्ञान की उपयोगिता"; Link:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJQb8xT15DI 
     
  •  Interview with DD News in Sanskrit; Link:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZH9q5_XdYE