HARIHARAN R L

About

Assistant Professor, Ph.D. in Information Technology from the National Institute of Technology Karnataka. My areas of expertise include Multimodal Disinformation Detection, Data Analytics, Natural Language Processing (NLP), and Deep Learning. I have five years of research experience, three and a half years in academia, and two years in the industry. Additionally, he has qualified twice for the GATE and UGC-NET exams. I have published three articles in SCIE-indexed journals and has contributed to eight international and national conference proceedings indexed by Scopus and has also served as a reviewer for distinguished conferences and journals, including RANLP, ACL, EACL, CLEF, Multimedia Tools & Applications, and TALLIP.

Employment

• Vellore Institute of Technology University Assistant Professor
  2026 - Present

Education

• National Institute of Technology Karnataka Ph.D.
  2019 - 2025

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (12)

• Experimental Analysis of the Impact of Data Augmentation and Embedding Techniques on the Detection of Bias in News Articles
  2026 0 citations DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-26683-5_2
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• LeDoFAN: enhancing lengthy document fake news identification leveraging large language models and explainable window-based transformers with n-gram expulsion
  International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics 2025 0 citations DOI: 10.1007/s13042-025-02635-8
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• A reasoning based explainable multimodal fake news detection for low resource language using large language models and transformers
  Journal of Big Data 2025 29 citations DOI: 10.1186/s40537-025-01093-x
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• Overlapping word removal is all you need: revisiting data imbalance in hope speech detection
  Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence 2024 9 citations DOI: 10.1080/0952813X.2023.2166130
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• Fake News Detection in Telugu Language using Transformers Models
  2024 5th International Conference on Innovative Trends in Information Technology (ICITIIT) 2024 2 citations DOI: 10.1109/ICITIIT61487.2024.10580521
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• NITK-IT-NLP@DravidianLangTech: Impact of Focal Loss on Malayalam Fake News Detection using Transformers
  Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Speech and Language Technologies for Dravidian Languages 2023
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• Impact of Transformers on Multilingual Fake News Detection for Tamil and Malayalam
  2023 4 citations DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-33231-9_13
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• NITK-IT_NLP@TamilNLP-ACL2022: Transformer based model for Toxic Span Identification in Tamil
  Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Speech and Language Technologies for Dravidian Languages 2022 4 citations DOI: 10.18653/v1/2022.dravidianlangtech-1.12
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• NITK-IT NLP at CheckThat! 2022: Window based approach for Fake News Detection using transformers
  2022
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• Blockchain to Secure Data in Internet of Things (IoT)
  Blockchain and IoT Integration: Approaches and Applications 2021
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