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Born in [[Shillong]] in 1962<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> |
Born in [[Shillong]] in 1962<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]]. He obtained a B.Tech. in Computer Science from [[IIT Kharagpur]], and an M.Tech. from [[Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur|IIT Kanpur]]. He received his Ph.D. from [[Indian Institute of Technology Bombay|IIT Bombay]] in 1994<ref name=pbearlylife/> |
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Latest revision as of 10:06, 7 October 2025
Indian computer scientist (1962–2025)
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Pushpak Bhattacharyya |
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| Born | 1962 (1962) |
| Died | (aged 63) |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Citizenship | India |
| Alma mater | IIT Kharagpur IIT Kanpur IIT Bombay |
| Known for | Director at IIT Patna, Machine translation, Word-sense disambiguation, Sentiment analysis, Psycholinguistics, IndoWordNet, Information Retrieval |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer science, Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing |
| Institutions | IIT Patna IIT Bombay |
| Website | Official website Director’s Profile |
Pushpak Bhattacharyya (1962 – 5 October 2025) was an Indian 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.
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Born in Shillong in 1962,[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. He received his Ph.D. from IIT Bombay in 1994.[5]
His research areas include Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Psycholinguistics, Eye Tracking, Information Retrieval, and Indian Language WordNets (IndoWordNet). He contributed to the development of multilingual lexical knowledge bases such as IndoWordNet and Projection and author of the textbook Machine Translation. [6] He led various government and industry projects[7], and received faculty grants [7] from organizations including IBM, Microsoft, Yahoo, and the United Nations.
He published over 350 research papers in journals and conferences and supervised more than 300 undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral students. His research also covered areas such as automatic sarcasm detection, multilingual computation, and neural machine translation for Indian languages. He co-authored several monographs, including Investigations in Computational Sarcasm (Springer, with Aditya Joshi),[8] Cognitively Inspired Natural Language Processing: An Investigation Based on Eye Tracking (Springer, with Abhijit Mishra),[9] and Machine Translation and Transliteration of Low Resource Related Languages (CRC Press, with Anoop Kunchukuttan).[10] He also undertook sponsored and consultancy projects for various government ministries and private industries.
Bhattacharyya died on 5 October 2025, at the age of 63.[11]
- ^ 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.
- ^ “Noted academician, computer scientist from city no more”. The Shillong Times. 6 October 2025. Retrieved 6 October 2025.
- ^ 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.
