Pushpak Bhattacharyya

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.

Pushpak Bhattacharyya
Born1962 (age 57–58)
India
NationalityIndian
CitizenshipIndia
Alma materIIT Kharagpur
IIT Kanpur
IIT Bombay
Known forDirector at IIT Patna, Machine translation, Word-sense disambiguation, Sentiment analysis, Psycholinguistics, IndoWordNet, Information Retrieval
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science, Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing
InstitutionsIIT Patna
IIT Bombay
WebsiteOfficial website
Director's Profile

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

References
  1. Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Director IIT Patna Indian Institute of Technology Patna. Retrieved 2018-11-21.
  2. Executive Committee Retrieved 2018-11-21.
  3. Chair Professors 2015 Retrieved 2018-11-21.
  4. Bhattacharyya, Pushpak (2015). Machine Translation (1st ed.). ISBN 978-1-4398-9718-8.
  5. Sponsored Research Projects Retrieved 2018-11-21.
  6. "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.
  7. "Pushpak Bhattacharyya". inae.in. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
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