Rate My Professor Aseem Srivastava

Aseem Srivastava is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI). He earned his PhD from IIIT Delhi, where he was advised by Prof. Shad Akhtar and Prof. Tanmoy Chakraborty, and successfully defended his thesis in September 2025. His research focuses on the intersection of applied computational social science, psycholinguistics, and sociolinguistics, with an emphasis on using large language models for digital health applications, mental health conversation analysis, and safer AI companionship.

Srivastava collaborates with Prof. Monojit Choudhury and Prof. Thamar Solorio at MBZUAI. He has contributed to projects examining loneliness in digital spaces and human-AI relationships, including work funded by the Google Academic Research Award. His publications include papers on therapeutic principles in mental-health conversations (ACL 2026), emotion recognition in code-mixed counseling conversations (LREC 2026), toxicity mitigation (NeurIPS 2025), and counseling summarization (EMNLP 2024). He has also received grants such as the Cohere Labs Catalyst Grant and has been involved in organizing events like AI for Global South.