Pushpak Bhattacharyya
Pushpak Bhattacharyya is 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. He is regarded as the Godfather of NLP in India, mentioned by Nandan Nilekani, Co-founder and non-executive chairman of Infosys at the Inaugural event of Nilekani Centre at AI4Bharat, IIT Madras. He is a past president of Association for Computational Linguistics (2016–17), and Ex-Vijay and Sita Vashee Chair Professor He currently heads the Natural language processing research group [http://www.cfilt.iitb.ac.in/ Center For Indian Language Technology] (CFILT) lab at IIT Bombay. Provided by Wikipedia
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