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    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.
  • “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).
  • "Novel Multi-modal Recommendation Systems for Online Video Recommendation" by SONY Research India Private Limited (approx. 85 lakhs)(PI) (ongoing 2021-2022).
  • “Conversational Agents with Negotiation and Influencing Ability “ Faculty Gift Grant by Accenture Pvt Ltd (approx. 65 lakhs) (PI) (ongoing).
  • "Multimodal cyber-bully detection in ASEAN Languages" by ASEAN-India Collabora- tive research project (approx. 10 lakhs) (PI)( ongoing 2021-2023).
  • "CRISIL-IIT Patna Collaboration", by CRISIL Ltd. (approx. 21 lakhs)(ongoing, duration 2021-2025) (PI).
  • Visvesvaraya Young Faculty Research Award- 25.9 lakhs (PI) (ongoing Jan 2019-Jan 2024).
  • “Multimodal Abstractive summarization with multi modal output”, by TIH, IIT Patna (PI) (20 lakhs) (ongoing July 2022-July 2024).
  • “Signal Jamming and Central Bank Communications: Do Experts Mislead the Market” by SERB CORE (co-PI) (ongoing) (July 2023-July 2025).
  • “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).
  • 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).
  • "Autonomous Goal-Oriented and Knowledge-Driven Neural Conversational Agents", by Accenture Solutions Pvt Ltd. (approx 21 lakhs) (PI).
  • "Sentiment, Emotion, Sarcasm and Hate Speech Detection" by CDOT, New Delhi (ap- prox. 33 lakhs) (completed: 2019-2020)(co-PI).
  • "Multi-modal Summarization", by LG Soft, Bangalore (approx. 16 lakhs) (completed) (PI).
  • "Time Series Forecasting", by LG Soft, Bangalore (completed)(co-PI).
  • "Dynamic Natural Language Generation", by Samsung, Bangalore (approx. 14.50 lakhs) (completed)(co-PI).
  • Course instructor of "Data Analytics and Reporting" under TCS iON Industry Honour Certification product.
  • “Microsoft AI for Health COVID-19 grant” ($30,000 USD of Azure sponsorship credits for 12 months) (PI) ( duration 2020-2021) (completed).
  • "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).
  • "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".
  • Workshop proposal "Optimization Techniques for Human Language Technology" of Rs.4.5 lakhs -Australia-India Strategic Research Fund (AISRF) of round 6 (executed)
  • 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)
  • 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.
  • 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).
  • 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.
  • Organizer of the workshop titled “Indo-Australia Workshop on Optimization Techniques for Human Language Technology" held at IIT Patna on December 16, 2012.
  • Organizer of the Workshop titled "Workshop on Cryptography" held at IIT Patna from April 06-07, 2013.
  • 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).
  • B.Tech Projects: Completed (35) [A student got the "Proficiency in Project Work Prize" in the year 2013], On-going (5).
  • 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
  • IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B.
  • Knowledge-Based Systems.
  • IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration.
  • IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part C.
  • Pattern Recognition
  • IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
  • Information Sciences
  • IEEE Transaction on Evolutionary Computation
  • International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology
  • Memetic Computing
  • Knowledge Based Systems
  • 6th International Conference on Information Technology, CIT 2006, held at Bhubaneswar, December, 2006
  • 7th International Conference on Information Technology, CIT 2007, held at Rourkela, 17-20 December, 2007
  • Second International Conference on Pattern Recognition andMachine Intelligence (PReMI’07) held at Kolkata, 18-22 December, 2007
  • 4th International Symposium on Visual Computing held at Las Vegas, Nevada, USA during December 1-3, 2008.
  • 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.
  • 22nd International Conference on VLSI Design (8th International Conference on Embedded Systems), held at New Delhi, India during January 5-9, 2009.
  • 2009 International Conference on Intelligent Computing (ICIC 2009) to be held on September 16-19, 2009 in Ulsan, Korea.
  • International Workshop on Natural Language Processing (NLP’12) August 3-5, 2012, Chennai, India
  • First International Symposium on Intelligent Informatics (ISI’12), August 4-5, 2012, Chennai, India.
  • 2nd International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI’13), August 22-25, 2013, Mysore, India.
  • 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
  • Archived Multiobjective Simulated Annealing (AMOSA) developed during my M.Tech
  • 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).
  • Genetic point symmetry based clustering softwares developed during my Ph.D. work at ISI.
  • VGAPS: a variable string length genetic point symmetry based clustering technique for automatic evolution of clusters, developed during my Ph.D. work at ISI.
  • Some Single and Multiobjective Based Classifier Ensemble Techniques developed at IIT Patna