Rekha S. Sugandhi has completed her graduation (B.E. Computers) from K.K. Wagh College of Engineering,  Nashik, India in 1998 and post-graduation (M.Tech Computers) from Government College of Engineering, Pune, India in 2006, both under the University of Pune. Her research areas include natural language processing and linguistics, affective computing, machine learning, data mining, and human computer interface. She has guided around 50 students for under-graduate projects and 7 students at the post-graduate level. She is currently working as Associate Professor at M.I.T. College of Engineering, Pune, India. She is a member of IACSIT, ISTE and CSI.

She is currently working on a research project, "e-translator: Multilingual Machine Translation System", funded by Board of College and University Development, University of Pune as co-investigator with Prof. Rajneeshkaur Bedi as the principal investigator and Prof. R Khope also as co-investigator.

·  Rekha S. Sugandhi, Aneesh S. Mulye and Vijay M. Wadhai, "A Framework for Extensible Emotion Analysis System," International Journal of Engineering and Technology, Vol. 3, No. 5, pp. 540-546, Oct-2011

·  Rekha Sugandhi, Dr. Vijay Wadhai, Ritika Shekhar, Tarun Agarwal, “Using Emotional Intelligence Analysis for Intelligent Tutoring Systems”,  International Journal of Engineering, Science and Research (IJESR), Vol. 1, No. 2, July 2011.

·  Rekha Sugandhi, Abin A. Alichan, Ankit Dave, Yogesh Bhumkar, “AirSwipe: A Modified Swipe Gesture System”, International Journal of Computer Applications (IJCA), Vol. 26, No. 7, Article 6, pp. 9-12, July-2011.

·  Rekha Sugandhi, Anurag Dani, Sayali Charhate, Amol Kawde, “Addressing Challenges in Multi-Lingual Machine Translation”,  International Journal of Scientific & Engineering Research ,  Vol. 2, Iss. 6, June-2011.

·  Milind Penurkar and Rekha Sugandhi, “OPDSM: A Combinatorial Object-Based and Page-Based DSM Model”, International Journal of Computer Applications, Volume 1, No. 6, pp. 5-10, Feb. 2010.

·  Rekha Sugandhi,  Ritika Shekhar, Tarun Agarwal, Rajneesh Bedi,  Vijay Wadhai,  “Issues in Parsing for Machine Aided Translation from English to Hindi”, Proc. World Congress on Information and Communication Technology (WICT 2011), Mumbai, India (MS), December 11-14 2011

·   Rekha S. Sugandhi and, Vijay M. Wadhai, “Parameters for Semi-automated Vocabulary Enhancement System”,  Proc. 3rd International Conference on Computer Technology and Development (ICCTD 2011), Chengdu, China , November 25-27, 2011

·   Rekha Sugandhi, Rajneeshkaur Bedi and, Milind Penurkar, “Power Management Techniques for Computer Usage”,  Proc. Indo-italian Conference on Emerging Trends in Waste Management Technologies (ETWMT-2009), pp.531-534, 3^rd- 4^th Dec 2009.

·   Rajneeshkaur Bedi, Rekha Sugandhi and, Anita Thengade, “Green IT and e-Waste Management: A Need of the Present for  a Better Future”, Proc. Indo-italian Conference on Emerging Trends in Waste Management Technologies (ETWMT-2009), pp. 754-760, 3^rd- 4^th Dec 2009.

·  Rekha Sugandhi, Rajneeshkaur Bedi, Dr.V.M.Wadhai, “Graph-based Clustering Approach for Emotion Recognition in Text Document”, Proc. National Conference on Data Warehousing & Data Mining(MINEWARE-2011),  pp. 60-67, January 2011

Organized the following at MIT College of Engineering, Pune:

• National-level Lecture Series on "Machine Intelligence", on 14th December 2011. The speakers were Prof. Emilio Corchado-University of Burgos, Spain, Prof. Vaclav Snasel-Czech Republic, Prof.André C.P.L.F. de Carvalho-University of Sao Paulo, Brazil,Prof. Bernadetta Kwintiana Ane-Universitaet Stuttgart, Germany and, Prof Varsha H. Patil, Nashik, India
• National-level Conference and Poster Presentation  on "High Performance Computing and Machine Intelligence", on 2nd and 3rd Feb 2012.
• State-level Short-term Training Program on "Interactive Tools for Computer Graphics" from 15th March to 17th March 2012. Trainers were Mr. Kapil Kadam, Ph.D. Student, Indian Institute of Techology, Mumbai, India and Mr. Mayur Shrivastava, Reliance MediaWorks Pvt Ltd, India