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Indian computer scientist

Pushpak Bhattacharyya (1962 – 2025) was a computer scientist and a professor at Computer Science and Engineering Department, IIT Bombay. He served as the director of Indian Institute of Technology Patna from 2015 to 2021.^[1] He is regarded as the Godfather of Indian NLP,^[2] mentioned by Nandan Nilekani, Co-founder and non-executive chairman of Infosys at the Inaugural event of Nilekani Centre at AI4Bharat, IIT Madras^[2]. He was a past president of Association for Computational Linguistics (2016–17),^[3] and Ex-Vijay and Sita Vashee Chair Professor^[4] Until his death, he was heading the Natural language processing research group Center For Indian Language Technology (CFILT) lab at IIT Bombay.

Education

Born in Shillong ^[5], he matriculated from Jail Road Boys’ High School, Shillong. He obtained a B.Tech in Computer Science from IIT Kharagpur, and an M. Tech from IIT Kanpur (M.Tech). He received his Ph.D. from IIT Bombay in 1994 ^[5].

Research

His research areas were Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Psycholinguistics, Eye Tracking, Information Retrieval, and Indian Language WordNets – IndoWordNet. A significant contribution of his research was Multilingual Lexical Knowledge Bases like IndoWordNet and Projection. He was the author of the text book ‘Machine Translation’.^[6] He led government and industry projects of international and national importance^[7] and received faculty grants^[7] from IBM, Microsoft, Yahoo and the United Nations.

He published more than 350 research papers covering all major areas of NLP in top journals and conferences and guided more than 300 students for their PhD, masters and undergraduate research. Automatic Sarcasm Detection, Multilingual Computation, Indian Language Neural Machine Translation and Indowordnet are some of his research trail blazers. Three monographs co-authored by him titled ‘Investigations in Computational Sarcasm’ ^[8] (Springer, with Dr. Aditya Joshi), ‘Cognitively Inspired Natural Language Processing- An Investigation Based on Eye Tracking’^[9] (Springer, with Dr. Abhijit Mishra) and ‘Machine Translation and Transliteration of Low Resource Related Languages’ ^[10] (CRC Press Taylor and Francis group, with Dr. Anoop Kunchukuttan) describe cutting edge research in NLP and ML. Prof. Bhattacharyya executed sponsored and consultancy projects for various ministries and top industries and startups, with amounts running into tens of crores.

Awards

References

^ Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Director IIT Patna Indian Institute of Technology Patna. Retrieved 2018-11-21.
^ ^a ^b AI4Bharat (12 August 2022). Nilekani Centre @ AI4Bharat IIT Madras, Inauguration. Retrieved 24 July 2024 – via YouTube.{{cite AV media}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
^ Executive Committee Retrieved 2018-11-21.
^ Chair Professors 2015 Retrieved 2018-11-21.
^ ^a ^b “Noted academician, computer scientist from city no more”. The Shillong Times. Retrieved 6 October 2025.
^ Bhattacharyya, Pushpak (2015). Machine Translation (1st ed.). ISBN 978-1-4398-9718-8.
^ ^a ^b Sponsored Research Projects Retrieved 2018-11-21.
^ Joshi, Aditya; Bhattacharyya, Pushpak; Carman, Mark J. (3 April 2018). Investigations in Computational Sarcasm (1st ed.). Springer. ISBN 978-981-10-8395-2.
^ Mishra, Abhijit; Bhattacharyya, Pushpak (9 August 2018). Cognitively Inspired Natural Language Processing- An Investigation Based on Eye Tracking (1st ed.). Springer. ISBN 978-981-13-1515-2.
^ Kunchukuttan, Anoop; Bhattacharyya, Pushpak (5 June 2024). Machine Translation and Transliteration of Low Resource Related Languages (1st ed.). CRC Press. ISBN 9781003096771.
^ ^a ^b ^c “Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya has assumed charge as Director, IIT Patna w.e.f June 03, 2015”. Indian Institute of Technology Patna. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
^ “Pushpak Bhattacharyya”. inae.in. Retrieved 21 November 2018.

External links

[1] Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Director IIT Patna Indian Institute of Technology Patna. Retrieved 2018-11-21.

[:0-2] AI4Bharat (12 August 2022). Nilekani Centre @ AI4Bharat IIT Madras, Inauguration. Retrieved 24 July 2024 – via YouTube.{{cite AV media}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

[3] Executive Committee Retrieved 2018-11-21.

[4] Chair Professors 2015 Retrieved 2018-11-21.

[pbearlylife-5] “Noted academician, computer scientist from city no more”. The Shillong Times. Retrieved 6 October 2025.

[6] Bhattacharyya, Pushpak (2015). Machine Translation (1st ed.). ISBN 978-1-4398-9718-8.

[pbprojects-7] Sponsored Research Projects Retrieved 2018-11-21.

[8] Joshi, Aditya; Bhattacharyya, Pushpak; Carman, Mark J. (3 April 2018). Investigations in Computational Sarcasm (1st ed.). Springer. ISBN 978-981-10-8395-2.

[9] Mishra, Abhijit; Bhattacharyya, Pushpak (9 August 2018). Cognitively Inspired Natural Language Processing- An Investigation Based on Eye Tracking (1st ed.). Springer. ISBN 978-981-13-1515-2.

[10] Kunchukuttan, Anoop; Bhattacharyya, Pushpak (5 June 2024). Machine Translation and Transliteration of Low Resource Related Languages (1st ed.). CRC Press. ISBN 9781003096771.

[pbiitp-11] “Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya has assumed charge as Director, IIT Patna w.e.f June 03, 2015”. Indian Institute of Technology Patna. Retrieved 21 November 2018.

[12] “Pushpak Bhattacharyya”. inae.in. Retrieved 21 November 2018.

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 ==Education==
-Born in [[Shillong]] <ref name=pbearlylife>{{cite news|url=https://theshillongtimes.com/2025/10/06/noted-academician-computer-scientist-from-city-no-more/?utm_source=ts2.tech#:~:text=SHILLONG%2C%20Oct%205%3A%20Noted%20computer,Patna%20from%202015%20to%202021|title=Noted academician, computer scientist from city no more|publisher=The Shillong Times|accessdate=2025-10-06}}</ref>, he matriculated from Jail Road Boys’ High School, [[Shillong]], obtained a B.Tech in Computer Science from [[IIT Kharagpur]], and an M. Tech  from [[Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur|IIT Kanpur]] (M.Tech). He received his Ph.D. from [[Indian Institute of Technology Bombay|IIT Bombay]] in 1994 <ref name=pbearlylife/>.
+Born in [[Shillong]] <ref name=pbearlylife>{{cite news|url=https://theshillongtimes.com/2025/10/06/noted-academician-computer-scientist-from-city-no-more/?utm_source=ts2.tech#:~:text=SHILLONG%2C%20Oct%205%3A%20Noted%20computer,Patna%20from%202015%20to%202021|title=Noted academician, computer scientist from city no more|publisher=The Shillong Times|accessdate=2025-10-06}}</ref>, he matriculated from Jail Road Boys’ High School, [[Shillong]] obtained a B.Tech in Computer Science from [[IIT Kharagpur]], and an M. Tech  from [[Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur|IIT Kanpur]] (M.Tech). He received his Ph.D. from [[Indian Institute of Technology Bombay|IIT Bombay]] in 1994 <ref name=pbearlylife/>.
 ==Research==