| Pushpak Bhattacharyya | |
| Birth Place: | India |
| Citizenship: | India |
| Nationality: | Indian |
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| Fields: | Computer science, Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing |
| Workplaces: | IIT Patna IIT Bombay |
| 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 |
Pushpak Bhattacharyya is a computer scientist and a professor at Computer Science and Engineering Department, IIT Bombay. He served as the director of Indian Institute of Technology Patna from 2015 to 2021.[1] He is regarded as the Godfather of NLP in India[2] , mentioned by Nandan Nilekani, Co-founder and non-executive chairman of Infosys at the Inaugural event of Nilekani Centre at AI4Bharat, IIT Madras. He is a past president of Association for Computational Linguistics (2016–17),[3] and Ex-Vijay and Sita Vashee Chair Professor[4] He currently heads the Natural language processing research group Center For Indian Language Technology (CFILT) lab at IIT Bombay.
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.
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’.[5] He has led government and industry projects of international and national importance[6] and has received faculty grants[6] from IBM, Microsoft, Yahoo and the United Nations.
He has published more than 350 research papers covering all major areas of NLP in top journals and conferences and has guided more than 300 students for their PhD, masters and undergraduate research. Automatic Sarcasm Detection, Multilingual Computation, Indian Language Neural Machine Translation and Indowordnet are some of his research trail blazers. Three monographs co-authored by him titled 'Investigations in Computational Sarcasm' [7] (Springer, with Dr. Aditya Joshi), 'Cognitively Inspired Natural Language Processing- An Investigation Based on Eye Tracking'[8] (Springer, with Dr. Abhijit Mishra) and 'Machine Translation and Transliteration of Low Resource Related Languages' [9] (CRC Press Taylor and Francis group, with Dr. Anoop Kunchukuttan) describe cutting edge research in NLP and ML. Prof. Bhattacharyya has executed sponsored and consultancy projects for various ministries and top industries and startups, with amount running into tens of crores.