Achivements
- 📊 Dr. Asif Ekbal listed among the Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University, 2024
- 🎤 Dr. Asif Ekbal appointed as an ACM Distinguished Speaker 2024
- 🏆 Dr. Asif Ekbal ranked among the Top Computer Science Researchers by Research.com 2024
- 🥇 Dr. Asif Ekbal ranked received the Outstanding Paper Award from IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (2023)
- 💼 Dr. Asif Ekbal ranked awarded an Unrestricted Faculty Gift by Accenture R&D
- 🎓 Soumitra Ghosh awarded Microsoft Research Travel Grant 2022 to attend IJCAI 2022, Vienna
- 🏆 Best Student Paper Award in JCDL for paper "DeepAsPeer" by S. Kumar et al.
- 🏅 Faculty members Dr. Asif Ekbal and Dr. Sriparna Saha listed in the top 2% scientists worldwide by Stanford University, Elsevier
- 🎓 Sandeep Kumar, PhD Scholar, awarded Prime Minister's Research Fellowship (PMRF)
- 🏅 Dr. Sriparna Saha invited to Editorial Board of Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (EAAI), Elsevier (IF: 6.2)
- 🎓 Mr. Abhisek Tiwari selected for PMRF under guidance of Dr. Sriparna Saha and Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya
- 🏅 Best Paper Runner-up Award in ICADL 2021 for the paper "PEERAssist" by P. Bharti et al.
- 📝 Blog: Arindam Chatterjee (PhD scholar) writes on code-mixing — an IIT Patna–Wipro collaboration
- 👩🔬 Dr. Sriparna Saha joins Editorial Board, PLOS ONE (h5-index: 175)
- 👩🔬 Editorial roles for Dr. Sriparna Saha:
- IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (IF: 3.015)
- Expert Systems with Applications (IF: 5.452)
- IEEE Internet Computing (2-yr IF: 5.277)
- 🏅 Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya and Dr. Asif Ekbal featured in latest CS Rankings
- 👨🔬 Editorial Appointment: Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya joins JNLE (Cambridge Univ. Press)
- 🏅 Dr. Sriparna Saha recognized among leading women AI researchers in India
- 🏅 Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya among Top AI Researchers in India (2020), Analytics India Magazine
- 🏅 Dr. Sriparna Saha listed in Stanford–Elsevier's Top 2% Scientists in AI (source)
- 🎓 Kshitij Mishra awarded Prime Minister’s Research Fellowship (PMRF)
- 🏆 IIIT Bhagalpur–IIT Patna team (LaySumm, CL-SciSumm, LongSumm tasks) wins best performance at CL-SciSumm 2020 (EMNLP workshop)
- 🧑⚖️ Prof. Asif Ekbal to serve as Senior Program Committee Member, IJCAI 2020
- 🧑⚖️ Prof. Asif Ekbal to serve on the AAAI 2020 Program Committee
- 💡 MoU with Flipkart for joint research in AI, NLP & ML (Link, Link)
- 📘 Asif Ekbal appointed Associate Editor at SN Computer Science (Springer)
- 📘 Asif Ekbal to serve as Area Chair for EACL 2021 (Resources and Evaluation)
- 🏆 Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya awarded Abdul Kalam National Fellowship
- 🎓 Naveen Saini received IEEE CIS grant for WCCI 2020, Glasgow
- 🏆 Tirthankar Ghosal won Best Research Poster at Research Scholar Day 2020
- 📘 Tirthankar Ghosal appointed Co-editor of SIGIR Forum 2020
- 🎓 Dushyant Singh Chauhan awarded Prime Minister Fellowship for Doctoral Research
- 🌍 Asif Ekbal & Tirthankar Ghosal in EurNLP 2020 organizing committee (Paris)
- 🌍 Tirthankar Ghosal organizing FORCE 2020 (Spain)
- 🌍 Tirthankar Ghosal invited as Financial Access Co-Chair, ACL 2020 Diversity & Inclusion
- 📘 Asif Ekbal joins as Associate Editor of Machine Translation Journal (Springer)
- 🎓 Sukanta Sen received Microsoft Research Travel Grant to attend ACL 2019 (Florence)
- 🎓 Tulika Saha received Microsoft Research Travel Grant for IJCNN 2019 (Budapest)
- 🎤 Dr. Asif Ekbal is chairing in the Question-Answering Track of NAACL-2019, a top-tier NLP conference.
- 🧑💼 Dr. Asif Ekbal is in the Senior Program Committee of IJCAI-2019, a top-tier AI conference.
- 🏅 The work on “Novelty, Scope, Quality: On Exploring Artificial Intelligence for Scholarly Communications” won Best Poster at FORCE 2019, University of Edinburgh.
- 🗣️ Tirthankar Ghosal presented the above work and conducted a panel on "AI for Peer Review" at FORCE 2019.
- ✈️ Tirthankar Ghosal invited to attend the European NLP Summit 2019 at Facebook HQ, London.
- 🎤 Tirthankar Ghosal invited to present at FORCE 2019 with full travel scholarship.
- 🤝 Tirthankar Ghosal was core member of Diversity & Inclusion committee at NAACL 2019, managing merit-based grants.
- 🎓 Tirthankar Ghosal awarded Microsoft Research Travel Grant 2019 to attend IJCNN 2019, Budapest.
- 🔬 Tirthankar Ghosal selected as Visiting Research Scholar at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US (Mar-Aug 2019).
- 📢 Tirthankar Ghosal presented research at IRISS 2019, ACM India Annual Event, Kochi.
- 📝 Dr. Asif Ekbal selected as Associate Editor of Machine Translation Journal, Springer.
- 🤝 MoU signed with Wipro for Indian Language Chatbot project.
- 👩🔬 Dr. Sriparna Saha selected for Indo-U.S. Fellowship for Women in STEMM (WISTEMM) Program 2018.
- 🏆 Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya conferred IIT Kharagpur Distinguished Alumnus Award 2018.
- 🏅 Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya listed among Top 10 Machine Learning Researchers in India.
- 💼 PhD scholar Deepak Gupta secured 4-month research internship at Microsoft Maluuba, Montreal, Canada.
- 🏅 AI-NLP-ML group ranked 9th in Asia as per CS Ranking: Computer Science 2018.
- ✍️ Tirthankar Ghosal awarded AWSAR 2018 by DST for popular science writing on "AI in Peer Review".
- 🎓 Tirthankar Ghosal awarded Microsoft Research Travel Grant and Visvesvaraya Conference Grant to attend COLING 2018.
- 🏅 Deepak Gupta selected as research intern at Microsoft Maluuba, advised by Prof. Yoshua Bengio and Prof. Richard Sutton.
- 🎤 Tirthankar Ghosal invited speaker at FORCE11 2018 on AI in scholarly communications, sponsored by CrossRef.
- 🎓 Tirthankar Ghosal awarded ACM SIGIR Student Travel Grant to attend JCDL 2018.
- 🎓 Naveen Saini received Microsoft funding and IEEE CIS Travel Grant for IJCNN 2018.
- 🏅 Dr. Sriparna Saha awarded Visvesvaraya Young Faculty Research Fellowship by MeitY, Govt. of India.
- 🏅 Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya listed among Top 10 Machine Learning Researchers in India.
- 🏅 Dr. Sriparna Saha awarded SERB Early Career Research Award and SERB Women Excellence Award 2018.
- 🎓 Naveen Saini awarded Microsoft Lab Travel Grant for ICONIP 2017.
- 🧑💼 Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya appointed Head of Committee for AI Standardisation by Bureau of Indian Standards, Ministry of Consumer Affairs.
- 📖 "Machine Translation Book" by Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya ranked highly in top book lists.
- 📝 Dr. Sriparna Saha chosen Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on Asian Low Resource Language Information Processing.
- 🎓 Dr. Asif Ekbal awarded prestigious JSPS Fellowship from Japan Government for research at Kyoto University.
- 🎉 Congratulations to Shad and Shweta for selection in Google's NLP Summit 2017, Zurich.
- 🎓 Shweta Yadav received Google Fellowship to attend and present at EACL 2017.
- 📄 Papers accepted in BMC Bioinformatics, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, Computers in Biology and Medicine (2017).
- 🤝 SkyMap Global partnership with IIT Patna on Deep Learning & AI integration.
- 🏆 IIT Patna ranked 108th in QS University Rankings: BRICS.
- 📝 Dr. Sriparna Saha Associate Editor of ACM Transaction on Asian Low Resource Language Information Processing.
- 🎓 Dr. Asif Ekbal awarded Young Faculty Research Fellowship of Visvesvaraya PhD scheme.
- 🏅 Dr. Sriparna Saha received BIRD Award 2016 and NASI Young Scientist Platinum Jubilee Award (2015-16).
- 🎤 Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya gave Presidential Address at ACL 2016.
- 🤝 AI-NLP-ML group signed MoU with Accenture Pvt. Limited.
- 🏅 Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya assumed office of ACL from January 2016.
- 🎤 Dr. Asif Ekbal served as Chair for Student Paper Competition at ICON-2016.
- 🏅 Dr. Sriparna Saha selected for IEI Young Engineers Award 2015.
