Pushpak Bhattacharyya
Pushpak Bhattacharyya | |
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| Born | 1962 (age 58–59) India |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Citizenship | India |
| Alma mater | IIT Kharagpur IIT Kanpur IIT Bombay |
| Known for | Director at IIT Patna, Machine translation, Word-sense disambiguation, Sentiment analysis, Psycholinguistics, IndoWordNet, Information Retrieval |
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| Fields | Computer science, Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing |
| Institutions | IIT Patna IIT Bombay |
| Website | Official website Director's Profile |
Pushpak Bhattacharyya is a computer scientist and a Professor at Computer Science and Engineering Department, IIT Bombay. Currently, he is also the Director of Indian Institute of Technology Patna.[1] He is a past President of Association for Computational Linguistics (2016-17),[2] and Ex-Vijay and Sita Vashee Chair Professor[3] He currently heads the Natural language processing research group Center For Indian Language Technology (CFILT) lab at IIT Bombay.
Education[]
He completed his undergraduate studies from IIT Kharagpur (B. Tech.) and Masters from IIT Kanpur (M.Tech). He finished his Ph.D. from IIT Bombay in 1994.
Research[]
His research areas are Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Psycholinguistics, Eye Tracking, Information Retrieval, and Indian Language WordNets - IndoWordNet. A significant contribution of his research is Multilingual Lexical Knowledge Bases like IndoWordNet and Projection. He is the author of the text book ‘Machine Translation’.[4] He has led government and industry projects of international and national importance[5] and has received faculty grants[5] from IBM, Microsoft, Yahoo and the United Nations.
Awards[]
- Patwardhan Award of IIT Bombay for Technology Development[6]
- VNMM award of IIT Roorkee for Technology Development[6]
- Fellow of National Academy of Engineering[7]
- Eminent Engineer awardee of Institution of Engineers[6]
References[]
- ^ Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Director IIT Patna Indian Institute of Technology Patna. Retrieved 2018-11-21.
- ^ Executive Committee Retrieved 2018-11-21.
- ^ Chair Professors 2015 Retrieved 2018-11-21.
- ^ Bhattacharyya, Pushpak (2015). Machine Translation (1st ed.). ISBN 978-1-4398-9718-8.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Sponsored Research Projects Retrieved 2018-11-21.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c "Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya has assumed charge as Director, IIT Patna w.e.f June 03, 2015". Indian Institute of Technology Patna. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
- ^ "Pushpak Bhattacharyya". inae.in. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
External links[]
- Homepage
- Publications
- NPTEL Lectures on NLP
- CFILT
- Pushpak Bhattacharyya publications indexed by Google Scholar
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