Hands-on AI and Natural Language Processing

Dr. Sushanta Mukhopadhyay completed his B.Sc. degree (Hons.) in Physics from Presidency College, Kolkata, in 1988, and B.Tech and M.Tech degrees in Radiophysics and Electronics from the University of Calcutta, in 1992 and 1994, respectively. He has completed his PhD in Image Processing from the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, in 2003. From 2001 to 2003 and from 2004 to 2007, he was with Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA, as a Postdoctoral Researcher and with Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, as a Research Fellow, respectively. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Dhanbad (erstwhile Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad, India. He has published articles in internationally reputed journals, such as the IEEE Transactions On Image Processing, the IEEE Transactions On Circuits And Systems II: Express Briefs, Pattern Recognition, and Signal Processing. His research interest includes image and video processing.

Dr. Chiranjeev Kumar has been working as an Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT (ISM), Dhanbad, India. He has received his PhD degree from Allahabad University in 2006. He was the Gold Medalist of his M.E. batch at MNNIT, Allahabad, India in 2001. In 1998, he was certified as a Certified Novell Administrator (CNA) and Certified Novell Engineer (CNE). In his 14 years of teaching and research career, he has contributed 42 research papers in several refereed journals and conference proceedings of National and International reputes. His main research interests include Mobility Management in Wireless Networks, Ad Hoc Networks, and Software Engineering. He is an IEEE member since 2006.

Dr. Dharavath Ramesh is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Dhanbad. He has received his PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad under the supervision of Professor Chiranjeev Kumar. He completed his M.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering with specialisation in Software Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad. He has earned his B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from Kakatiya Institute of Technology and Science (KITS), Warangal. Dr. Ramesh’s research interests include Blockchain and Distributed Computing, Distributed Databases, Cloud Storage And Security, Modeling Big Data, Processing Big Data, Virtualization and Scheduling in Cloud Environment, Load Balancing Approaches, Deep Learning Strategies, Brain Computer Interaction, Community Detection In Social Networks, and Ml Paradigms in Agriculture. He has published over a hundred technical papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings. He has served in various capacities for journals and conferences. He was the organising Co-Chair for RAIT 2018, RAIT 2014, and an advisory committee member of various international and national conferences/workshops/symposiums. He has served on the programme committees of various conferences including Bangalore Development Authority (BDA), International Conference on Distributed Computing and Internet Technology (ICDCIT), Advanced Computing Network and Security (ADCONS), Recent Advances in Information Technology (RAIT), and International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE). He is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and a professional member of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

Dr. Sachin Tripathi holds a B.Tech degree in Computer Science Engineering (CSE) from Kanpur University, India. He completed his M.Tech and PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from the esteemed Indian Institute of Technology (ISM), Dhanbad, India. Currently, he serves as an Associate Professor and also holds the position of Head of the Department of CSE Department at the Indian Institute of Technology (ISM), Dhanbad, India. With over eighteen years of experience in teaching Computer Science subjects, he specialises in Artificial Intelligence. Throughout his career, he has made significant contributions to the field of research and has authored more than 100 research papers, which have been published in prestigious journals like IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, and Applied Soft Computing, among others. Additionally, he has authored a book titled "Enhancements on Internet Applications: Multicast, Secure E-Mail Messaging, and E-Business". He also holds the position of an Associate Editor at "International Journal of Communication Systems," published by Wiley. His research interests primarily revolve around Artificial Intelligence, Network Security, Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks.

Dr. Tarachand Amgoth has completed his B.Tech degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU), Hyderabad in 2002, M.Tech degree in Computer Science Engineering from the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Rourkela in 2006, and PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad in 2015. Presently, he is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT (ISM), Dhanbad. His current research interests include Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), Cloud Computing, Fog/Edge Computing, Serverless Computing and Internet of Things (IoT). He has contributed more than 50 publications in reputed international journals and conferences. Currently, he is working on a project titled “Interoperability Issues in Fog-Cloud Infrastructure for IoT Applications", sponsored by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Government of India. He has published several journals on IoT and Cloud Computing. He has 15 years of teaching experience and has taught courses on Internet of Things and Cloud Computing to B.Tech and M.Tech students.

Dr. Ayan Das is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT (ISM) Dhanbad. He has received his PhD from IIT Kharagpur. He has completed his M.Tech and B.Tech degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Kharagpur and NIT Durgapur, respectively. His research interests include Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, and Information Retrieval. Before joining IIT (ISM), he has worked as a Systems Engineer at TCS for 3 years from 2008 to 2011, and as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems at BITS Pilani (Hyderabad campus) from December 2020 to 2021. Currently, he has 16 publications in reputed conferences and journals.

Dr. Saurabh Srivastava has over 7 years of experience in industry and academia with roles spanning across development, planning and architecture of IT solutions. The responsibilities assigned to him include teaching assignments, administrative duties and hands-on product development. He has worked in organisations with varying profiles, including the prestigious space agency of India, ISRO. His area of expertise includes Software Architecture and Engineering as well as AI-intensive Systems. He is passionate about planning and building Software Systems to automate business processes. He holds a Doctorate and Master’s degree in Engineering from the Department of CSE, IIT Kanpur. During his master’s, he was the Top Ranker in his Department, for which he received the Academic Excellence Award from the Institute. He is currently serving as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT (ISM) Dhanbad, with functional positions of Faculty-In-Charge, Automation of the Institute and Co-Faculty In-charge, Data and Software Technology Club under the Naresh Vashisht Centre for Tinkering and Innovation. He is also a member of the Executive Committee of TEXMiN Foundation, a Technology Innovation Hub set up by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India.

Dr. Mauajama Firdaus currently works as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT(ISM) Dhanbad. Previously, she was a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Computing Science at the University of Alberta, Canada. She has earned her PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India, in 2021. Her primary research focus lies within the domains of Natural Language Processing and Dialogue Generation. Over the past seven years, she has dedicated her research efforts to Natural Language Processing (NLP), Information Extraction, and Machine Learning (ML), yielding substantial contributions in these fields. Dr. Firdaus has authored numerous papers presented at esteemed conferences such as AAAI, IJCAI, ACL, EMNLP, COLING, NAACL, and published in distinguished journals including Expert Systems with Applications, Knowledge-based Systems, ACM Transactions, IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, among others. Notably, she has delivered tutorials at IJCAI, ECIR, COLING, premier conferences, specifically on the topic of empathetic dialogue systems.

Dr. Haider Banka joined the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT(ISM) Dhanbad as an Associate Professor in the year 2007 and is currently working as an Associate Professor in the same Department since 2013. He has worked as a visiting Assistant Professor in the Center for Soft Computing Research, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata for three months. He has also worked as a visiting Research Associate in the Department of Computer and Information Science (DISI), University of Genoa, Italy, for three months in the year of 2006. He was a Senior Research Fellow at Machine Intelligence Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, for 2 years from April 2004 to March 2006. He has taught many subjects such as Soft Computing, Data Mining, Algorithms and Graph Theory, Operating Systems, Data Structures, C Programming and others. His current research interests includes Machine Learning, Soft Computing Applications, and Optimizations. Dr. Banka has published more than 100 peer reviewed journals and conferences and has awarded 12 PhD degrees under his supervision. In addition, Dr. Banka has published two authored books and two IEEE conference proceedings. Dr. H. Banka is a reviewer of many international journals and conferences including IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Expert Systems and Applications, Pattern Recognition, Information Sciences, International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, Pattern Recognition Letters and others as well.

Debashis Roy has completed ME in Software Engineering from Jadavpur University, Kolkata. He works as a Domain Consultant and Subject Matter Expert at Tata Consultancy Services. He has been working with Higher Education and Corporate Learning Programmes for 18+ years, providing end-to-end learning solutions to domestic and international corporate customers.

Currently, he conducts live sessions for various online certificate programmes conducted in association with different INI's like IIT Dhanbad, IIT Ropar, ISI Kolkata, IITM Pravartak, among others.

He works as a Subject Matter Expert and Technical Lead, focusing on the demonstration and implementation of advanced conceptual aspects of different tech domains like Data Engineering, Data Science, Cloud Computing and Architecture, Artificial Intelligence and GenAI along with MLOps, DataOps, Cybersecurity, IoT and more.

His role provides him the opportunity to engage in creating hands-on environments for leveraging distributed applications and pipelines.

Dr. Himdweep Walia has been working in Higher Education domain for almost two decades now. Currently, she is working at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) as a Subject Matter Expert and Domain Expert - Learning Programmes, Higher Education, having end-to-end ownership of learning products in the AI/MLdomain. She also conducts live sessions for various online certificate programmes being conducted in association with different INI's like IIT Dhanbad, ISI Kolkata and IITM Pravartak.

In her current role, she works with INI's and universities to create degree programmes in domains like AI-ML, AR-VR, IoT, Cybersecurity and Cloud Computing with upcoming industry relevant courses to help stakeholders leverage the courses in a graded manner. Being the SME helps to directly connect with students to understand the learning gaps and other pain points and propose strategies to improve user experience and engagement. Her role also gives her the opportunity to interact with stakeholders to gather constructive feedback on product development and enhancement.

She has completed her B.Tech and M.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering and her doctorate is in Natural Language Processing (NLP). Her work focusses on 'Word Sense Disambiguation for Punjabi Language using Intelligent Techniques'. Her research interests include Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, NLP, Conversational Experiences andVision Intelligence. She has filed two patents and has published research papers in reputed journals and international conferences. She is also a member of Computer Society of India, IEEE and ACM.