About Anagha Kulkarni

Anagha Kulkarni is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at San Francisco State University. Her research training is in natural language processing (NLP), information retrieval (IR), and machine learning (ML); broadly Artificial Intelligence (AI). She applies her training and experience to investigate multidisciplinary problems in the fields of public health, women's health, and medicine. Dr. Kulkarni holds a PhD in Language Technologies from Carnegie Mellon University, MS in Computer Science from University of Minnesota, Duluth, and Bachelor’s in Computer Engineering from Government College of Engineering, Pune. Dr. Kulkarni’s work has been supported by federal agencies (NSF, NIH), industry partners (Genentech Inc., Diffbot Inc.), and nonprofit organization (Genentech Foundation, SKERI).

Dr. Kulkarni has been a CS educator for over a decade and currently leads the following student, faculty, and professionals training programs that are aimed at increasing retention, diversity and student success: AI-STAARS, BPC-A FLC, PINC, Gen-PINC, gSTAR, and gSTAR Pro.