Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Pushpak Bhattacharyya
Born 1962 (age 55–56)
India
Residence Patna, India
Nationality Indian
Citizenship India
Alma mater IIT Bombay, IIT Kanpur, IIT Kharagpur
Known for Director at IIT Patna, Machine translation, Word-sense disambiguation, Sentiment analysis, Psycholinguistics, IndoWordNet, Information Retrieval
Scientific career
Fields Computer science, Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing
Institutions Indian Institute of Technology, Patna, Indian Institute of Technology, 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 IIT 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

  • Homepage
  • Publications
  • Book on Machine Translation
  • NPTEL Lectures on NLP
  • CFILT
  • Google Scholar

References

  1. ↑ https://www.iitp.ac.in/index.php/the-institute/administration/administrators/directorate.html
  2. ↑ https://www.aclweb.org/archive/officers_new.html#2016
  3. ↑ [http://www.iitb.ac.in/sites/default/files/ChairProfessorBooklet-2015.pdf
  4. ↑ https://www.amazon.com/Machine-Translation-Pushpak-Bhattacharyya/dp/1439897182
  5. 1 2 https://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~pb/sponsor.html
  6. 1 2 3 https://www.iitp.ac.in/index.php/latest-news/1319-notification-prof-pushpak-bhattacharyya-has-assumed-the-charge-as-director-indian-institute-of-technology-patna-with-effect-from-june-03-2015.html
  7. ↑ User, Super. "Pushpak Bhattacharyya". inae.in. Retrieved 30 August 2017.
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