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. He is a past President of Association for Computational Linguistics, and Ex-Vijay and Sita Vashee Chair Professor He currently heads the Natural language processing research group lab at IIT Bombay.Education
He completed his undergraduate studies from IIT Kharagpur and Masters from IIT Kanpur. 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’. He has led government and industry projects of international and national importance and has received faculty grants from IBM, Microsoft, Yahoo and the United Nations.Awards
