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Keynote Speaker |
Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya |
Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya is Professor of Computer Science and Engineering Department IIT Bombay. His area of research is Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning (ML). He currently holds the Major Bhagat Singh Rekhi Chair Professorship of IIT Bombay and had formerly held Vijay and Sita Vashi Chair Professorship (2014-16). He was formerly Director of IIT Patna (2015-20) and President of Association of Computational Linguistics (2016). He is a Fellow of National Academy of Engineering (2015) and Abdul Kalam National Fellow (2020).
Prof. Bhattacharyya received his B.Tech from IIT Kharagpur (1984, its Distinguished Alumnus Awardee in 2018), M.Tech from IIT Kanpur (1986) and Ph.D from IIT Bombay (1994). He has also been visiting scientist/researcher/faculty in MIT Cambridge USA, Stanford University USA, University Joseph Fouriere Grenoble France and University of Texas at Houston USA. Prof. Bhattacharyya has been lecturing on NLP in top national and international academic institutions and industries throughout the world. |