Name:Smita Ghaisas

Bio:

Smita Ghaisas is a Chief Scientist and a Distinguished Engineer at TCS Research, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCSL). She leads Data Driven Requirements Engineering (RE) Research. She additionally leads the technical task force for an enterprise-wide initiative in AI powered governance of contractual obligations at TCS. For this initiative, she has defined a technical strategic solution and roadmap and deployed it in coordination with the CIO’s office, Delivery Excellence Group, and Corporate Legal at TCS.

Her current interests include creating scalable AI solutions that solve non-trivial practical problems in large enterprises.

She has served on program committees of flagship conferences such as ICSE, FSE, and RE and was the co-chair of the Industry Innovation track of RE 18. She also serves on the Editorial Board of the IEEE Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE) journal. For her achievements, she has been designated as a Distinguished Engineer, an award conferred in recognition of her contribution to enhanced research and IP footprint and value creation for her company.

Country:India

Affiliation:TCS Research

Research interests:Smita’s current research interests include disambiguation of complex and critical texts such as regulations and contracts by employing deep learning techniques coupled with learning theory-based experiments in crowd sourcing of interpretation tasks.