Projects
- Microsoft Academic Partnership Grant 2024 (15 lakhs) (PI) (ongoing).
- "AI for entertainment platform in the Indian setting”, by SONY Research India Private
Limited (30 lakhs)(PI) (April, 2024– April, 2025).
- ADOBE Gift grant of 20000 USD.
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“Design of Federated Meta-learning Approaches for Solving Problems of Natural Language Processing” by SERB-POWER (approx. 39.24 lakhs) (PI) (ongoing September 2022 – September 2025).
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"Novel Multi-modal Recommendation Systems for Online Video Recommendation" by
SONY Research India Private Limited (approx. 85 lakhs)(PI) (ongoing 2021-2022).
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“Conversational Agents with Negotiation and Influencing Ability “ Faculty Gift Grant by Accenture Pvt Ltd (approx. 65 lakhs) (PI) (ongoing).
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"Multimodal cyber-bully detection in ASEAN Languages" by ASEAN-India Collabora-
tive research project (approx. 10 lakhs) (PI)( ongoing 2021-2023).
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"CRISIL-IIT Patna Collaboration", by CRISIL Ltd. (approx. 21 lakhs)(ongoing,
duration 2021-2025) (PI).
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Visvesvaraya Young Faculty Research Award- 25.9 lakhs (PI) (ongoing Jan 2019-Jan 2024).
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“Multimodal Abstractive summarization with multi modal output”, by TIH, IIT Patna (PI) (20 lakhs) (ongoing July 2022-July 2024).
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“Signal Jamming and Central Bank Communications: Do Experts Mislead the Market” by SERB CORE (co-PI) (ongoing) (July 2023-July 2025).
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“Third Party Quality Assurance and Inspection (“TPQAI”) of projects under Bhagalpur Smart City Limited” by Bhagalpur Smart City Limited (approx.. 33.61 lakhs) (co-PI) (ongoing July 2022-December 2023).
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SERB Women in Excellence Award-18 lakhs (PI) (July 2018–July 2021) (completed).
- "IITP- Prithvi AI Research Collaboration", by Prithvi AI (ongoing, 2021-2022)(PI).
- "Response Generation and Enhancement", by LG-Soft (completed, 2020-2021)(co-PI).
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"Autonomous Goal-Oriented and Knowledge-Driven Neural Conversational Agents", by
Accenture Solutions Pvt Ltd. (approx 21 lakhs) (PI).
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"Sentiment, Emotion, Sarcasm and Hate Speech Detection" by CDOT, New Delhi (ap-
prox. 33 lakhs) (completed: 2019-2020)(co-PI).
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"Multi-modal Summarization", by LG Soft, Bangalore (approx. 16 lakhs) (completed)
(PI).
- "Time Series Forecasting", by LG Soft, Bangalore (completed)(co-PI).
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"Dynamic Natural Language Generation", by Samsung, Bangalore (approx. 14.50 lakhs)
(completed)(co-PI).
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Course instructor of "Data Analytics and Reporting" under TCS iON Industry Honour
Certification product.
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“Microsoft AI for Health COVID-19 grant” ($30,000 USD of Azure sponsorship credits for 12 months) (PI) ( duration 2020-2021) (completed).
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"IIT Patna Centre of Excellence in Cyber Crime Prevention against Women and Children
-Al based Tools for Women and Children Safety by IIT Patna" by Ministry of Home
Affairs, Govt. of India (approx. 284 lakhs) (co-PI) (duration: 2020-2022).
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"Development of Adaptive Algorithms for Solving Many-Objective Optimization Prob-
lems: Application in Machine Learning", Early Career Research Award, Department of
Science and Technology (approx. 15 lakhs) (PI) (duration 2018-2021).
- "Development of CDAC Digital Forensic Centre with Artificial Intelligence based Knowledge Support Tools", Govt of Bihar and Meity (co-PI) (Rs. 92 lacs).
- Project by SkyMap Global, Singapore. Investigators: Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Asif Ekbal, Sriparna Saha
- Training program on "NLP + ML" at CDOT, New Delhi. Investigators: Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Asif Ekbal, Sriparna Saha
- Consultancy project by LG-Soft. Investigators: Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Asif Ekbal, Sriparna Saha
- ATL IIT AI Lab, Sponsored by Accenture Pvt. Limited-(Rs. 65 Lacs). Investigators: Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Asif Ekbal, Sriparna Saha.
- Centre of Excellence for Natural Language Processing IITP (Elsevier, Rs. 213.00 Lakhs), Investigators: Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Asif Ekbal, Sriparna Saha.
- ezDI Research Lab on Health Informatics at IITP (ezDI, Rs. 145.00 Lakhs), Investigators: Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Asif Ekbal, Sriparna Saha.
- Five GIAN approved courses (MHRD, Rs. 28.5 Lakhs), Investigators: Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Asif Ekbal, Sriparna Saha.
- Received PhD student under Visvesvaraya Scheme funded by DEITY.
- Member of Society "Incubation Centre IIT Patna".
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Workshop proposal "Optimization Techniques for Human Language Technology" of Rs.4.5 lakhs -Australia-India Strategic Research Fund (AISRF) of round 6 (executed)
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Development of Some Novel Methods for Semi-supervised Machine Learning and its Applications to Language Technology" DIT (Working Group in principle recommended the proposal for implementation; (budget 30 lakhs)
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Development of Automated Tools using Machine Learning and Soft Computing for
Information Extraction from Biomedical Domains- CENTRE FOR ADVANCED SYS-
TEM ENGINEERING, IIT PATNA (budget: 5.9 lakhs)
Workshops organized
- Organizer of the GIAN workshop titled "Unsupervised Data Mining: From Batch to Stream Mining Algorithms" will be held at IIT Patna from September 24, 2018 to September 28, 2018 (foreign expert: Prof. Stefan Kramer, University of Mainz, Germany ).
- Organizer of the GIAN workshop titled "Big Social Data Analysis " held at IIT Patna from February 26-March 2, 2018 (foreign expert: Prof. Erik Cambria, NTU, Singapore).
- Organizer of the GIAN workshop titled "Neural Machine Translation" held at IIT Patna from December 4-10, 2017 (foreign expert: Prof. Andy Way, Dublin City University, Ireland).
- Organizer of the GIAN workshop titled "Introduction to Natural Language Processing" held at IIT Patna from May 2-8, 2016 (foreign expert: Prof. Sadao Kurohashi, Kyoto University, Japan).
- Organizer of the Workshop titled "Cognitive Science for Computational Linguists" held at IIT Patna from December 8-14, 2016 (foreign expert: Prof. Massimo Poesio, University of Essex, United Kingdom.
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Organizer of the GIAN workshop titled "Multiobjective Optimization" held at IIT Patna from December 15-22, 2016 (foreign expert: Prof. Carlos A. Coello Coello, Mexico).
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Organizer of the workshop titled “1st International Workshop on Optimization Techniques for Human Language Technology" held on December 9, 2012 at IIT Bombay; it is a collocated event at the 24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2012) that is organized by the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB), at IIT Bombay (Mumbai, India), from 8-15 December 2012.
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Organizer of the workshop titled “Indo-Australia Workshop on Optimization Techniques for Human Language Technology" held at IIT Patna on December 16, 2012.
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Organizer of the Workshop titled "Workshop on Cryptography" held at IIT Patna from April 06-07, 2013.
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Organizer of the "Workshop on High Performance Computing and Smart Buildings" held at IIT Patna on April 19, 2013.
Student's guidance:
- PhD: Ongoing-9 (sole guidance: 3);
- PhD: submitted-2 (sole guidance: 1)
- PhD: graduated: 7 (sole guidance: 2).
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B.Tech Projects: Completed (35) [A student got the "Proficiency in Project Work Prize"
in the year 2013], On-going (5).
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M.Tech Projects: Completed (14), On-going (2) [A student got the "Proficiency in
Project Work Prize" in the year 2015].
Reviewer of papers of several International journals/ conferences including
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IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B.
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Knowledge-Based Systems.
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IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration.
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IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part C.
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Pattern Recognition
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IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
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Information Sciences
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IEEE Transaction on Evolutionary Computation
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International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology
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Memetic Computing
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Knowledge Based Systems
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6th International Conference on Information Technology, CIT 2006, held at Bhubaneswar, December, 2006
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7th International Conference on Information Technology, CIT 2007, held at Rourkela, 17-20 December, 2007
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Second International Conference on Pattern Recognition andMachine Intelligence (PReMI’07) held at Kolkata, 18-22 December, 2007
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4th International Symposium on Visual Computing held at Las Vegas, Nevada, USA during December 1-3, 2008.
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IEEE Colloquium and the third IEEE International Conference on Industrial and Information Systems (ICIIS 2008) held at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India during 08–10 December, 2008.
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22nd International Conference on VLSI Design (8th International Conference on Embedded Systems), held at New Delhi, India during January 5-9, 2009.
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2009 International Conference on Intelligent Computing (ICIC 2009) to be held on September 16-19, 2009 in Ulsan, Korea.
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International Workshop on Natural Language Processing (NLP’12) August 3-5, 2012, Chennai, India
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First International Symposium on Intelligent Informatics (ISI’12), August 4-5, 2012, Chennai, India.
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2nd International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI’13), August 22-25, 2013, Mysore, India.
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International Conference on Computational Intelligence: Modelling, Techniques and Applications (CIMTA- 2013) during 27-28 September 2013, Kalyani University, India.
Design and development of computer softwares
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Archived Multiobjective Simulated Annealing (AMOSA) developed during my M.Tech
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Dissertation at ISI, code available for download at http://www.isical.ac.in/sriparna r/software.html#RP (downloaded by at least 200 researchers all over the world).
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Genetic point symmetry based clustering softwares developed during my Ph.D. work at ISI.
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VGAPS: a variable string length genetic point symmetry based clustering technique for automatic evolution of clusters, developed during my Ph.D. work at ISI.
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Some Single and Multiobjective Based Classifier Ensemble Techniques developed at IIT Patna