Sukanya Mandal is a Data and AI Strategist and Execution Specialist, and a researcher at Dublin City University, Ireland. Her research develops cognitive digital twin frameworks for smart cities, combining knowledge graphs, cognitive architectures, and privacy-preserving federated learning. With a decade of experience in AI and data science, her work appears at AAAI 2024, IJCAI 2025, IEEE WF-IoT 2024, and IEEE SWC 2023.