Dr. N. Sripriya is an Associate Professor (Grade-I) in the Department of Information Technology at Shiv Nadar University Chennai, with 25+ years of teaching experience and more than 16 years of research experience in speech and natural language processing. She completed her Ph.D. at Anna University, Chennai in 2016, with doctoral research on speech signal processing. This foundation in signal-level speech analysis has since grown into a broader research programme spanning natural language processing, pattern recognition and machine learning. She combines cutting-edge research, doctoral supervision and project guidance with effective teaching methods to foster an engaging, collaborative learning environment. She is currently guiding a Ph.D. scholar working on text summarization and serves as a doctoral committee member for Ph.D. research scholars from various universities, in addition to leading a team of students in speech and natural language processing. Her funded and guided project work spans a hybrid deep-learning approach to text processing and a machine-learning-based prediction systems reflecting a research focus that bridges speech processing, natural language processing and applied machine learning. She is a member of professional societies including the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE), and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

Working Experience

• Jul 2026 – Till date Associate Professor, Shiv Nadar University
• Oct 2000 – Jun 2026 (25 years) Associate Professor, SSN College of Engineering, Chennai
• Developed and taught courses in Data Structures, Database Management Systems, Python Programming, Operating Systems, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Speech and Language Processing, etc.
• Served on multiple departmental committees – Board of Studies, National Board of Accreditation (NBA), and National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) – addressing curriculum development, accreditation, quality assessment and technology initiatives.
• Developed e-learning course materials using Learning Management Systems (LMS) and integrated mobile applications into classroom teaching to enhance student engagement and active learning.
• Built industry relationships with industries such as Ericsson India and HCL Technologies to create student internship opportunities.
• Organized the International Conference on Computer, Communication and Signal Processing (ICCCSP 2026) – 10th edition, June 23–25, 2026, theme: “Applied AI: Driving Multidisciplinary Innovation and Solutions”, Springer proceedings.
• Organized ICCCSP 2024 – 8th edition (March 20–22, 2024, theme: “Smart Solutions for Sustainable Development Goals”), and actively participated in and organized shared tasks hosted by the Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (FIRE) and the Language Technology for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (LT-EDI) initiative. Also, organized the ICCCSP 2018.
• Organized multiple faculty development programmes, workshops and seminars, and has delivered invited lectures at various institutes.

Projects

• Principal Investigator, “A Hybrid Approach for Query-based Text Summarization using Deep Learning” – funded ₹1.1 lakh by SSN Institutions (2020–2021).
• Co-Investigator, “A Prediction System for Pest and Disease Occurrences in Plants” – funded ₹1.5 lakh by SSN Institutions (2020–2021).

Publications

Published approximately 46 research papers in reputable journals and conferences in the areas of Natural Language Processing and Speech Processing.

1. Journal publications:

1. Divya S, Sripriya N.,“Effective document summarization: a hybrid clustering approach using a transformer model”, PeerJ Computer Science, 2026 Feb 27:e3201. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.3201
2. Divya, S., and Sripriya N., “Semantic Based Extractive Document Summarization using Deep Learning Model.” ICTACT Journal on Soft Computing 15, no. 4, Jan 2025.
3. Vasuki, N. Sripriya, S., JACINDHA, G. Abishek, A. Supriya Abirami, “Neural Program Synthesis for Automatic Image Enhancement”, Journal of Internet Services and Information Security (JISIS), 2025-05, 15 (12) 791-806.
4. Divya S, Sripriya N, Andrew J, Mazzara M. 2024. Unified extractive-abstractive summarization: a hybrid approach utilizing BERT and transformer models for enhanced document summarization. PeerJ Computer Science 10:e2424 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.2424, Nov 2024.
5. Sripriya N, Divya S, Jerin J and Keerthana K N, “Genre Classification of English and Tamil Songs using CNN”, in Indian Journal of Natural Sciences, Vol.15 / Issue 85 / Aug / 2024, ISSN: 0976 – 0997
6. Poornima S, Sripriya, M.G.Kavitha, “Development of Augmented Reality Platform Using Image Processing with Deep Learning Techniques”, J. Electrical Systems, Vol.20, No, 3s (April 2024): 249-256. DOI: 10.52783/jes.1279
7. Divya S, Sripriya N.“Transformer based model for offensive content recognition in dravidian languages”. Brazilian Journal of Development. 2023 Dec 7; Vol. 9, No.12, 30656-67. https://doi.org/10.34117/bjdv9n12-006
8. Divya, N. Sripriya, S. Mohanavalli, P. Mirunalini, “A Transformer Approach for Multi-Document Summarization using TR-BERT” in Indian Journal of Natural Sciences, Vol 14, ISSUE 78, pp. 57692 – 57701, June 2023.
9. Divya, N. Sripriya, “Hierarchical Text Summarization Using Semantic Similarity” in Research Highlights in Language, Literature and Education, BP International, Vol. 6, 1-12, 2023 (Book Chapter)
10. Dhivya, S., Mohanavalli, S., Kavitha, S & Sripriya N, “Automated Detection and Segmentation of Mammogram Images using Deep Learning Techniques published in Indian Journal of Natural Sciences, Vol 14, no. 28, pp. 650-657, 2023
11. Poornima, N. Sripriya, A. F. Alrasheedi, S. S. Askar and M. Abouhawwash, “Hybrid convolutional neural network for plant diseases prediction,” Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, vol. 36, no.2, pp. 2393–2409, January 2023.  https://doi.org/10.32604/iasc.2023.024820
12. Divya, S. and Sripriya, N., Unsupervised hierarchical text summarization. In AIP Conference Proceedings (Vol. 2670, No. 1, p. 060006), AIP Publishing LLC, December 2022
13. Divya S, N Sripriya, S Mohanavalli and S Poornima, “Unsupervised Extractive Text Summarization using Distance-based Clustering Algorithms”, International Conference on Data Sciences, Machine Learning and Applications, ICDSMLA 2020 (Springer Conference) held at Pune, Maharashtra, India,  5 & 6 December 2020.]https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-16-3690-5_57
14. Divya S., Raghavi R., Sripriya N., Mohanavalli S., Poornima S. (2021) Analysis of Audio-Based News Classification Using Machine Learning Techniques. Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, vol 344. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4646-8_35(SJR 0.203)
15. Poornima S., Sripriya N., Preethi S., Harish S. (2020) Classification of Gender from Face Images and Voice. In: Peter J., Fernandes S., Alavi A. (eds) Intelligence in Big Data Technologies—Beyond the Hype. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1167. Springer, Singapore, 26 July 2020, DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5285-4_11
16. Poornima, S. Kavitha, S. Mohanavalli, and N. Sripriya. “Detection and classification of diseases in plants using image processing and machine learning techniques.” In AIP Conference Proceedings, vol. 2095, no. 1, p. 030018. AIP Publishing, 2019.DOI: 10.1063/1.5097529
17. Srividya, S. Mohanavalli, Sripriya, S. Poornima, “Outlier Detection using Clustering Techniques”, International Journal of Engineering & Technology, Vol. 7 No. 3.12, 2018, pp. 813 -818, DOI : 10.14419/ijet.v7i3.12.16508
18. Swarnalatha, R. S. Shrikanth, I. Kesavarthini, S. Poornima, N. Sripriya, ” Mobile Application for Out-Pass Generation”, International Journal of Current Engineering and Scientific Research (IJCESR), ISSN (PRINT): 2393-8374, (ONLINE): 2394-0697, VOLUME-5, ISSUE-7, 2018.
19. Rachel, G. Anushiya, Sripriya, P. Vijayalakshmi, and T. Nagarajan. “Significance of Differenced EGG Signal as a Spectrum in Phase Difference Computation for the Estimation of Glottal Closure Instants.” Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing 37, no. 5 (2017): 2074-2097, Impact Factor : 1.922
20. Sripriya N& Nagarajan, T 2015, ‘Estimation of glottal closure instants by considering the speech signal as a spectrum’, IET Electronic Letters, vol. 51, no. 8, pp. 649-651. Impact factor: 0.93.
21. Sripriya N, Smirthi Prema Vathana K, “Voiced-Nonvoiced Classification of Noisy Signals, International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, July 2015.
22. Saranya A, Sripriya N, “LPC VOCODER Using Instants of Significant Excitation and Pole focusing”, in the First International Conference on Parallel, Distributed Computing Technologies and Applications (PDCTA-2011), Sep 23-25, 2011, Springer-Verlag, CCIS, Vol. 203, Part-1, 180-190. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-24037-9_18, ISSN: 18650929.

2. Conference Publications:

1. Sripriya, N., S. Poornima, G. Udaykiron Chowdary, and V. Sai Shyam. “Indian Sign Language Recognition for Physically Challenged People Using.” In 7th EAI International Conference on Big Data Innovation for Sustainable Cognitive Computing: EAI BDCC 2024, p. 17. Springer Nature, 2026.
2. Bharathi, B., Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Sripriya,Rajeswari Natarajan, Ratnavel Rajalakshmi, and S. Suhasini. “Overview of the Fifth Shared Task on Speech Recognition for Vulnerable Individuals in Tamil.” In Proceedings of the 5th Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge: Fifth Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity, Inclusion, pp. 235-241. Sep 2025.
3. Sripriya, N., S. Poornima, M. Janani, and B. Jamuna. “Fake News Detection Using Multilingual BERT for English and Tamil Language.” In International Conference on Speech and Language Technologies for Low-resource Languages, pp. 645-657. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, Dec 2024.
4. Sundharakumar, K. B., S. Dhivya, S. Mohanavalli, Sripriya, and S. Divya. “Investigations of Quantum-Based Algorithm for Breast Tumor Diagnosis.” In International Conference On Artificial Intelligence, Computing, IOT and Data Analytics, pp. 263-272. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, Nov 2024.
5. Bharathi, B., Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Sripriya,Rajeswari Natarajan, and S. Suhasini. “Overview of the third shared task on speech recognition for vulnerable individuals in Tamil.” In Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity, Inclusion, pp. 133-138. 2024
6. Chakravarthi, Bharathi Raja, Sripriya, B. Bharathi, K. Nandhini, S. Chinnaudayar Navaneethakrishnan, Thenmozhi Durairaj, Rahul Ponnusamy, Prasanna Kumar Kumaresan, Kishore Kumar Ponnusamy, and Charmathi Rajkumar. “Overview of the shared task on sarcasm identification of Dravidian languages (Malayalam and Tamil) in DravidianCodeMix.” In the Forum of Information Retrieval and Evaluation FIRE-2023.
7. Sripriya N, Thenmozhi Durairaj, Nandhini K, Bharathi B, Kishore Kumar Ponnusamy, Charmathi Rajkumar, Prasanna Kumar Kumaresan, Rahul Ponnusamy, Subalalitha Chinnaudayar Navaneethakrishnan, and Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi.“Findings of Shared task on Sarcasm Identification in Code-Mixed Dravidian Languages” In Proceedings of the 15th Annual Meeting of the Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (FIRE ’23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 22–24, December 2023. https://doi.org/10.1145/3632754.3633077
8. Divya, N. Sripriya, Daphne Evangelin, G. Sai Sindhoora, “Opinion Classification on Code-mixed Tamil Language ”International Conference on Speech and Language Technologies for Low-resource Languages SPELLL 2022, Part of CCIS Volume 1802, pp. 155-168. Cham: Springer International Publishing, May 2023.
9. B Bharathi, BR Chakravarthi, S Cn, N Sripriya, A Pandian, S Valli, “Findings of the shared task on Speech Recognition for Vulnerable Individuals in Tamil” Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, 2022, pp. 339-345. (ACL Anthology, Scopus)

10. Divya, S., Sripriya, N, “Transformer Based Model For Offensive Content Recognition In Dravidian Languages”, CEUR Workshop Proceedings of “Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation” – FIRE 2021, conducted on December 13-17, 2021, India for the task “Offensive Language Identification for Dravidian Languages in Code-Mixed Text” and is ranked 3^rd.
11. Divya, S., Sripriya, N., “Sentiment Analysis Model For Code-Mixed Tamil Language”, CEUR Workshop Proceedings of “Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation” – FIRE 2021, conducted on December 13-17, 2021, India for the task “Sentiment Analysis of Dravidian Languages in Code-Mixed Text”.
12. Divya, S., Sripriya, N., Poornima, S., Mohanavalli, S. Automatic Text Summarization using Hierarchical Clustering, ICCHIT 2020, Namakkal, India, 10-11 December 2020.
13. Dhivya S, Jenifer Anjali R, Mohanavalli S, Sripriya N, Kavitha S, “Investigations of Shallow and Deep Learning Algorithms for Tumor Detection” IEEEHYDCON-2020. (virtual biennial signature conference of IEEE Hyderabad Section) held during 11-12, September 2020.
14. Sripriya N, Poornima S, Mohanavalli S, Pooja Baiya R, Nikita V, titled “Speech-based Virtual Travel Assistant for Visually Impaired”, was presented  in the 4th IEEE International Conference on Computer, Communications and Signal Processing (ICCCSP 2020) conducted by Department of IT, SSNCE during 28-29, September 2020.
15. Poornima, N. Sripriya, S. Preethi1, Saanjana Harish “Classification of Gender from Face Images and Voice” in the 3rd International Conference on Big Data and Cloud Computing organized by Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Karunya Institute of Technology and Sciences, Dec 6-7, 2019
16. Divya S, R Raghavi, N Sripriya, S Mohanavalli and S Poornima, “Analysis of Audio-Based News Classification using Machine Learning Techniques”, in International Conference on Mathematical Analysis and Computing, organized by Department of Mathematics, SSN College of Engineering, Chennai. 24-25 Dec 2019.
17. Swarnalatha, I. Kesavarthini , S. Poornima, N. Sripriya, “Med-Recommender System for Predictive Analysis of Hospitals and Doctors”, in Second International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Data Science(ICCIDS 2019), February 21-22, 2019, DOI: 10.1109/ICCIDS.2019.8862121published inIEEE Xplore.
18. Poornima S, Sripriya N, Vijayalakshmi B,Vishnupriya, “Attendance Monitoring System using Facial Recognition with Audio Output and Gender Classification” in IEEE International Conference on Computer, Communication and Signal Processing (ICCCSP-2017), 10 – 11 January 2017, published in IEEE Xplore.
19. Sripriya N, Poornima S, Shivaranjani R, Preethi Thangaraju, “Non-Intrusive Technique for Pathological Voice Classification using Jitter And Shimmer”, in IEEE International Conference on Computer, Communication and Signal Processing (ICCCSP-2017), 10 – 11 January 2017, published inIEEE Xplore.
20. Sripriya, T. Nagarajan, “Estimation of instants of significant excitation using accumulated energy function of DCT” in the 16th international conference, Oriental COCOSDA/CASLRE 2013 organised by KIIT College of Engineering, Gurgaon, India, Nov 25-27, 2013, pp. 1 – 6, DOI: 10.1109/ICSDA.2013.6709845.
21. Sripriya, T. Nagarajan, “Pitch Estimation using Harmonic Product Spectrum derived from DCT”, IEEE Region 10 Conference-TENCON 2013, China, Oct 22-25, 2013, ISSN : 2159-3442, pp. 1 – 4, DOI : 10.1109/TENCON.2013.6718976
22. Saranya A, Sripriya N, Nagarajan T, “Design of a VOCODER using instants of significant excitation” International conference on Signal Processing, Communication, Computing and Network Technologies(ICSCCN-2011), July 21-22, 2011, IEEE Explore DOI : 1109/ICSCCN.2011.6024649, pp.742-746.
23. Sripriya, P. Vijayalakshmi, C. Arun Kumar and T. Nagarajan, “Estimation of Instants of Significant Excitation from Speech Signal using Temporal Phase Periodicity”, IEEE TENCON 2009, Singapore on 28th August 2009. (IEEE Explore – DOI:  10.1109/TENCON.2009.5395962).
24. Sripriya, “Query based Multi_Document Summarization”, Proceedings of the Eighth International conference on “Pattern Recognition and Information Processing PRIP 2005”, May 18-20, 2005, Minsk, Republic of Belarus, pp. 365-369.

Awards

• Best Teacher of the Year, 2008–2009, SSN College of Engineering, for outstanding performance.
• University Rank Holder, Master of Engineering (Computer Science and Engineering), Anna University, 2005.

Area of Research

• Speech Signal Processing
• Natural Language Processing
• Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning
• Interdisciplinary research combining NLP, speech processing and image processing using machine learning techniques

Links

• Google Scholar:https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=Lie21J0AAAAJ

• ORCID:https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2070-418X

• Scopus: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=35811383800

• DBLP: https://dblp.org/pid/196/6100.html

• Publons / Web of Science Researcher ID:https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/rid/ABD-8627-2021