Assess and Prompt: A Generative RL Framework for Improving Engagement in Online Mental Health Communities
Bhagesh Gaur, Karan Gupta, Aseem Srivastava, Manish Gupta, Md Shad Akhtar
EMNLP (Findings) '25 | Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing 2025
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Figurative-cum-Commonsense Knowledge Infusion for Multimodal Mental Health Meme Classification
Abdullah Mazhar, Zuhair Hasan Shaik, Aseem Srivastava, Polly Ruhnke, Lavanya Vaddavalli, Sri Keshav Katragadda, Shweta Yadav, Md Shad Akhtar
WWW '25 | The ACM Web Conference 2025
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Critical Behavioral Traits Foster Peer Engagement in Online Mental Health Communities
Aseem Srivastava, Tanya Gupta, Alison Cerezo, Grin Lord, Md Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty
PLOS ONE '25 | Public Library of Science 2025
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Knowledge Planning in Large Language Models for Domain-Aligned Counseling Summarization
Aseem Srivastava, Smriti Joshi, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Md Shad Akhtar
EMNLP (Main) '24 | Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing 2024
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Exploring the Efficacy of Large Language Models in Summarizing Mental Health Counseling Sessions: A Benchmark Study
Prottay Kumar Adhikary, Aseem Srivastava, Shivani Kumar, Salam Michael Singh, Puneet Manuja, Jini K Gopinath, Vijay Krishnan, Swati Kedia, Koushik Sinha Deb, Tanmoy Chakraborty
JMIR-MH '24 | Journal of Medical Internet Research - Mental Health 2024
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Response-act Guided Reinforced Dialogue Generation for Mental Health Counseling
Aseem Srivastava, Ishan Pandey, Md. Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty
WWW'23 | The ACM Web Conference 2023
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Counseling Summarization using Mental Health Knowledge Guided Utterance Filtering
Aseem Srivastava, Tharun Suresh, Sarah (Grin) Lord, Md. Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty
KDD'22 | ACM's Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining - SIGKDD 2022
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A Computational Approach to Understand Mental Health from Reddit: Knowledge-aware Multitask Learning Framework
Usha Lokala, Aseem Srivastava, Triyasha Ghosh Dastidar, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Md Shad Akthar, Maryam Panahiazar, Amit Sheth
ICWSM'22 | The International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media 2022
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Speaker and Time-aware Joint Contextual Learning for Dialogue-act Classification in Counselling Conversations
Ganeshan Malhotra, Abdul Waheed, Aseem Srivastava, Md Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty
WSDM'22 | The 15th ACM International WSDM Conference
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Trust Modeling in Counseling Conversations: A Benchmark Study
Aseem Srivastava, Zuhair Hasan Shaik, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Md Shad Akhtar
Under Review
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Sentiment-guided Commonsense-aware Response Generation for Counseling
Aseem Srivastava, Gauri Naik, Alison Cerezo, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Md Shad Akhtar
Under Review
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Building Blocks of AI-Driven Mental Health Counseling
Organizers: Aseem Srivastava, Neeraj, Yash Kumar Atri, Shivani Kumar, Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty
ICON'23 | International Conference on Natural Language Processing ICON 2023
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Sept '25   |   Got invited to Dagstuhl Seminar on NLP for Mental Health at Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany.
Dagstuhl Seminar 25361   |   Seminar Website

2025 | 2024 | 2023   |   Got three back-to-back invitations to attend and present our work at Google India.
Research Week with Google Deepmind   |   LinkedIn

May '24   |   Got invited to present a talk on the Dialogue Modeling at India ML Reading Group
India ML Reading Group   |   YouTube LinkedIn

Feb '24   |   Invited to present a lightning talk and poster on Dialogue Generation at ACM ARCS 2024.
ACM India   |   Poster LinkedIn

Nov '23   |   Applied AI in Mental Health – Building Bridges from Scratch to Transformation 🚀
Cord.AI   |   Slides LinkedIn