Sriparna Saha/Projects

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