PROFILE
Hi, I work as Assistant Professor in Delhi Technological University in Computer Science and Engineering Department. I am also a PhD student in School of IT at IIT Delhi, advised by Prof. Abhijnan Chakraborty. My research interests include Fairness in Summarization, Social Network analysis, Computational Social Science. I obtained Masters from IIIT Delhi under the supervision of Prof. Vinayak Naik.
Webpage: https://garimachhikara128.github.io/
PREVIOUS POSITIONS/ EXPERIENCE
Senior Instructor and Java Team Lead, Coding Blocks, May 2017 to Nov 2020
TEACHING (COURSES TAUGHT)
Aug 2025 - Dec 2025: Machine Learning (CS 303)
Aug 2025 - Dec 2025: Design and Analysis of Algorithms (CS 205)
Jan 2025 - April 2025: Theory of Computation (CS 204)
Jan 2025 - April 2025: Data Structures (CS 104)
Aug 2024 - Dec 2024: Machine Learning (CO 327)
Aug 2024 - Dec 2024: Theory of Computation (CO 303)
Jan 2024 - April 2024: Algorithm Design and Analysis (CO 208)
Jan 2024 - April 2024: Data Structure (CS 104)
Aug 2023 - Nov 2023: Machine Learning (CO 327)
Aug 2023 - Nov 2023: Programming Fundamentals (CO 101
MEMBERSHIPS
AAAI, ACM and IEEE
PUBLICATIONS
PREPRINTS
- SMITE: Enhancing Fairness in LLMs through Optimal In-Context Example Selection via Dynamic Validation
Garima Chhikara, Kripabandhu Ghosh and Abhijnan Chakraborty
arXiv 2025 - Through the Prism of Culture: Evaluating LLMs' Understanding of Indian Subcultures and Traditions
Garima Chhikara, Abhishek Kumar and Abhijnan Chakraborty
arXiv 2025 - Few-Shot Fairness: Unveiling LLM's Potential for Fairness-Aware Classification
Garima Chhikara, Anurag Sharma, Kripabandhu Ghosh and Abhijnan Chakraborty
arXiv 2024
PUBLICATIONS
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LaMSUM: Amplifying Voices Against Harassment through LLM Guided Extractive Summarization of User Incident Reports
Garima Chhikara, Anurag Sharma, V. Gurucharan, Kripabandhu Ghosh and Abhijnan Chakraborty
In 20th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), Los Angeles, California, USA, June 2026. -
#LetsTalk: Understanding Social Media Usage of Self-Harm Users in India.
Garima Chhikara and Abhijnan Chakraborty.
In 18th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), Buffalo, New York, USA, June 2024. -
Fairness for both Readers and Authors: Evaluating Summaries of User Generated Content.
Garima Chhikara, Kripabandhu Ghosh, Saptarshi Ghosh and Abhijnan Chakraborty.
In 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), Taipei, Taiwan, July 2023. -
Use of Facial Landmarks for Adaptive Compression of Videos on Mobile Devices.
Garima Chhikara, Ruchika Banerjee, Vinayak Naik, A. V. Subramanyam and Kuntal Dey.
COMSNETS 2018, Part of LNCS Book Series
BOOKS/BOOK CHAPTERS (IF ANY)
PATENTS (IF ANY)
HONOURS AND AWARDS (IF ANY)
SPONSORED/CONSULTANCY PROJECTS
- Oct. 2025: Research grant worth INR 3 Crore received from MeitY as Co-PI.
- Mar. 2025: FIRP grant worth INR 10 Lakh received from DTU as Co-PI