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    • Dr. Partha Pakray

    Dr.Partha Pakray

    Information

    • Designation : Associate Professor
    • Email : partha@cse.nits.ac.in
    • Phone : 8259065018

    Research Group

    • Natural Language Processing
      Artificial Intelligence
      Machine Learning
      Quantum Computing
      Large Language Models (LLMs)

    Key Notes

    • Conference: International - 117
    • Journals: 71
    • Conferences: 147
    • Book Chapters: 5
    • Book: 1
    • Patents: 5
    • PhD: Guided: 18
    • Post Graduates: Guided: 7
    • Under Graduates: Guided: 14

    224

    PUBLICATIONS

    18

    DOCTORAL STUDENTS

    5

    PATENTS

    9

    PROJECTS

    Introduction [Biosketch]

    • My Motto: “If you believe in yourself, you will become yourself”
    • Dr. Partha Pakray is a distinguished researcher and academician specializing in Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Machine Translation, Quantum Machine Learning, and Cyber Security. He is currently an Associate Professor at NIT Silchar and has held various academic and research positions at leading institutions in India and abroad, including postdoctoral fellowships in Norway and the Czech Republic.
    • Dr. Pakray has led multiple funded research projects, collaborating with international institutions like CNRS France, Bremen University, and Aix-Marseille University. His contributions to NLP, adversarial AI, and machine translation have been widely recognized through numerous publications in top-tier journals and conferences. He has also played a key role in organizing international evaluation tracks and workshops on AI and NLP.
    • With a Ph.D. from Jadavpur University and extensive experience in academia and industry collaborations, Dr. Pakray continues to push the boundaries of AI-driven language technologies, fostering innovation and mentoring young researchers globally.

    Areas of Interest

    • Machine Learning
    • Deep Learning
    • Quantum Machine Learning
    • Natural Language Processing
    • Large Language Models (LLMs)
    • Cybersecurity – Fake News Detection
    • Cyberbullying, Analysis of Hinglish content
    • Machine Translation
    • Gender Equality and Gender Bias
    • Semantic Textual Similarity
    • Text Entailment
    • Question Answering
    • Machine Intelligence
    • Information Retrieval
    • Languages: any Northeast Indian Languages - drop email: partha@cse.nits.ac.in

    Institution Year Degree
    Jalpaiguri Govt. Engineering College 2004 B.E. (Computer Science & Engineering)
    Jadavpur University 2007 M.E. (Computer Science & Engineering)
    Jadavpur University 2013 Ph.D. (Computer Science & Engineering)

    Teaching Experience
    Associate Professor
    18 October 2023 - Present
    National Institute of Technology Silchar (Govt. of India)
    Assistant Professor Grade I
    21 November 2019 - 17 October 2023
    National Institute of Technology Silchar (Govt. of India)
    Assistant Professor Grade II
    13 August 2018 - 20 November 2019
    National Institute of Technology Silchar (Govt. of India)
    Industrial/Research Experience
    Post Doctoral
    15 October 2014 - 6 January 2015
    Masaryk University, Czech Republic
    Post Doctoral
    1 August 2013 - 30 July 2014
    Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

    Annepaka Yadagiri, Reddi Mohana Krishna, Partha Pakray, “CNLP-NITS-PP at GenAI Detection Task 2: Leveraging DistilBERT and XLM-RoBERTa for Multilingual AI-Generated Text Detection”, In Proceedings 1st Workshop on GenAI Content Detection (GenAIDetect), January 19th 2025, 2025, 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2025)

    Annepaka Yadagiri, Sai Teja Lekkala, Mandadoddi Srikar Vardhan, Partha Pakray, Reddi Mohana Krishna, “CNLP-NITS-PP at GenAI Detection Task 1: AI-Generated Text Using Transformer-Based Approaches”, In Proceedings 1st Workshop on GenAI Content Detection (GenAIDetect), January 19th 2025, 2025, 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2025)

    Sai Teja Lekkala, Annepaka Yadagiri, Mangadoddi Srikar Vardhan, Partha Pakray, “nits_teja_srikar at GenAI Detection Task 2: Distinguishing Human and AI-Generated Essays Using Machine Learning and Transformer Models”, In Proceedings 1st Workshop on GenAI Content Detection (GenAIDetect), January 19th 2025, 2025, 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2025)

    Sai Teja Lekkala, Annepaka Yadagiri, Mangadoddi Srikar Vardhan, Partha Pakray, “CNLP-NITS-PP at GenAI Detection Task 3: Cross-Domain Machine-Generated Text Detection Using DistilBERT Techniques”, In Proceedings 1st Workshop on GenAI Content Detection (GenAIDetect), January 19th 2025, 2025, 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2025)

    Annepaka Yadagiri and Partha Pakray, “Deep Learning Strategies for Identifying Machine-Generated Text”, In Proceedings International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication, 2025, Bangkok, Thailand, doi: 10.1109/IMCOM64595.2025.10857545

    Partha Pakray, “Multilingual restricted domain QA System with dialogue management”, April, 2012, LAP Lambert Academic Publishing

    Sl.No Course Name Semester Course Code Duration Status
    1 Natural Language Processing B.Tech CS 332 Even Semester, 2025 Ongoing
    2 Artificial Intelligence M.Tech CS 5109 Even Semester, 2025 Ongoing

    To detect AI generated Text

    Shubham Kumar, Gourabh Raghuwanshi, Banothu manjula, Karthik Agrawal
    Ongoing
    Supervisor : Partha Pakray
    Academic Year : 2024-2025

    Advancing Hate Speech Detection in Assamese Language Using Large Language Models

    Gyandeep Kalita, Eisha Halder, Chetna Taparia
    Completed : 
    Supervisor : Dr. Partha Pakray
    Academic Year : 2023-2024

    AI-Powered Voice-Guided Presentation: Revolutionizing PPT Explanations

    Ritu Raj Chanda, Shibam Debnath, Mohit Ranjan
    Completed : 
    Supervisor : Partha Pakray
    Academic Year : 2023-2024

    Deep Learning-Powered Automated Attendance Tracking System

    Piyush Musaddi, Bishwashri Roy, Parth Sarthi
    Completed : 
    Supervisor : Partha Pakray
    Academic Year : 2023-2024

    Quantum Natural Language Processing for Part of speech tagging

    Angikar Adiel Basumatari, Neha Pramanik, Mosammad Marjana Akter Mim
    Completed : 
    Supervisor : Partha Pakray
    Academic Year : 2023-2024

    Enhancing Road Safety with YOLO-based Helmet and Number Plate Detection: A Deep Learning Approach

    Jyoti Prakash Borah Sumon Kumar Das Prakash Devnani
    Completed : 
    Supervisor : Partha Pakray
    Academic Year : 2023-2024

    Quantum Machine Learning for Natural Language Processing Applications

    Tushar Skachan, Neha kumari, Nihar Jyoti Basisth
    Completed : 
    Supervisor : Dr. Partha Pakray
    Academic Year : 2022-2023

    Deep Text Summarization and Semantic Evaluation

    Rishu Kumar Darsh, Kumar Kaushik, Joya Chakroborty
    Completed : 
    Supervisor : Dr. Partha Pakray
    Academic Year : 2022-2023

    Multilingual News Article Similarity

    Rajdeep Paul, Samudranil Dutta, Battula Veeranjaneyulu Chowdary, 
    Completed : 
    Supervisor : Dr. Partha Pakray
    Academic Year : 2022-2023

    *MedicBot: A healthcare Assistant 

    Mr. Devi Prasad Upadhyay Mr. Sriharsha Medisetti Mr. KVN Pranav Mr. Prateek Mishra
    Completed : 
    Supervisor : Dr. Partha Pakray
    Academic Year : 2021-2022

    Multimodal based Abstractive Summarization

    Mr. Abdullah Khilji Mr. Utkarsh Singh Mr. Pintu Singh Mr. Adnan Ali
    Completed : 
    Supervisor : Dr. Partha Pakray
    Academic Year : 2020-2021

    DeNImaC: Deep Neural Image Captioning

    Mr. Abinash Dutta  Mr. Manish Kumar Miss. Puja Jain  Mr. Sharath  Chandra Punna
    Completed : 
    Supervisor : Dr. Partha Pakray
    Academic Year : 2019-2020

    Machine Translation from Assamese to English based on Statistical and Neural Networks

    Mr. Nayan Jyoti Bayan Mr. Sandeep Sarmah Mr. Prantik Sarmah Mr. Samannay Mahanta
    Completed : 
    Supervisor : Dr.Partha Pakray
    Academic Year : 2018-2019

    Design and Development of a Voice-based Image Descriptor in the Indian Language for visually challenged people

    Ayush Malviya, Rajdristant Ghose, Anupam Das, Suryanshu Kedar
    Ongoing

    Distinguishing Human-Written and AI Generated Text Using Machine Learning Techniques

    Parveen Sultana
    Ongoing
    Supervisor : Dr. Partha Pakray
    Academic Year : 2024-2025

    Generative AI Text Detection using Transformers based approaches and Linguistic features.

    Reddi Mohana Krishna
    Ongoing
    Supervisor : Partha Pakray
    Academic Year : 2024-2025

    To detect Parts-of-Speech tagging by using Quantum Machine Learning

    Ms. Bitanuka Deb
    Supervisor : Dr. Partha Pakray
    Academic Year : 2023-2024

    Abstractive Text Summarization and Semantic Summary Evaluation

    Shayak Chakraborty
    Completed : 
    Supervisor : Dr. Partha Pakray
    Academic Year : 2022-2023

    Text Summarization Evaluation

    Ms. Tawmo (International Student)
    Completed : 
    Supervisor : Dr. Partha Pakray
    Academic Year : 2021-2022

    Amharic to English: Neural Machine Translation

    Mr. Gebreerufael Wondie (International Student)
    Completed : 
    Supervisor : Dr. Partha Pakray
    Academic Year : 2020-2021

    Multi-Input Neural Abstractive Text Summarization with Multi-Objective

    Vikrant Rajput
    Completed : 
    Academic Year : 2019-2020

    Large Language Models

    Mr. Rajaram Jatothu
    Ongoing
    Supervisor : Dr. Partha Pakray

    Gender Bias in Machine Translation

    Ms. Murry Swathi
    Ongoing
    Supervisor : Dr. Partha Pakray

    Speech Translation with Real-Time Lip Synchronization

    Mr. Venkatesh Koreddi
    Ongoing
    Supervisor : Dr. Partha Pakray

    Machine Translation

    Mr. Venkanna Bhukya
    Ongoing
    Supervisor : Dr. Partha Pakray

    Automatic Detection of Machine Generated Text

    Mr. Annepaka Yadagiri
    Ongoing
    Supervisor : Dr. Partha Pakray
    Co Supervisor : Dr. Chukhu Chunka

    Design and Mitigate Adversarial Attacks on AI-Generated Multimodal Hate Speech

    Mr. Advaitha Vetagiri
    Ongoing
    Supervisor : Dr. Partha Pakray

    Quantum Machine Learning for NLP Applications

    Mr. Shyambabu Pandey
    Ongoing
    Supervisor : Dr. Partha Pakray

    Development of novel meta-heuristic based clustering approaches

    Ms. Amika Achom
    Completed : 
    Co Supervisor : Dr. Partha Pakray

    Parts-of-Speech tagging for Khasi Language

    Ms. Sunita Warji
    Completed : 
    Co Supervisor : Dr. Partha Pakray

    Analysis of POS tagging for Mizo Language

    Mr. Morrel V.L Nunsanga
    Completed : 
    Co Supervisor : Dr. Partha Pakray

    Machine Translation: English to Mizo

    Ms. Vanlalmuansangi Khenglawt
    Completed : 
    Co Supervisor : Dr. Partha Pakray

    Exploring Deep Learning & Meta heuristic based approaches towards Automatic Text Summarization

    Ms. Dipanwita Debnath
    Completed : 
    Co Supervisor : Dr. Partha Pakray

    Addressing the Challenges in Mathematical Information Retrieval from Scientific Documents

    Mr. Amarnath Pathak
    Completed : 
    Co Supervisor : Dr. Partha Pakray

    Deep Interpretable Semantic Textual Similarity (DeepiSTS)

    Mr. Goutam Majumdar
    Completed : 
    Co Supervisor : Dr. Partha Pakray

    Spatial Information Extraction from Text Using Image

    Mr. Sandeep Kumar Dash
    Completed : 
    Co Supervisor : Dr. Partha Pakray

    Development of Some Clustering Techniques using Swarm and Evolutionary Computations

    Ms. Ranjita Das
    Completed : 
    Co Supervisor : Dr. Partha Pakray

    A Low Resource Language Pair Translation based on Statistical and Neural Machine Translation Approaches

    Mr. Sahinur Rahman Laskar
    Completed : 
    Supervisor : Dr. Partha Pakray

    Formula Retrieval from Scientific Document

    Pankaj Kundan Dadure
    Completed : 
    Supervisor : Dr. Partha Pakray

    A SYSTEM FOR STUDYING AND PERFORMING THE PART-OF-SPEECH TAGGING FOR MIZO LANGUAGE”

    “A SYSTEM FOR STUDYING AND PERFORMING THE PART-OF-SPEECH TAGGING FOR MIZO LANGUAGE”

    Germany
    Patent Registration ID,
    A SYSTEM FOR STUDYING AND PERFORMING THE PART-OF-SPEECH TAGGING FOR MIZO LANGUAGE”, (**GRANTED**)

    SYSTEM FOR THE PREPARATION AND STUDY OF AN ENGLISH-MIZO CORPUS BY FINDING TONAL WORDS

    “A SYSTEM FOR STUDYING AND PERFORMING THE PART-OF-SPEECH TAGGING FOR MIZO LANGUAGE”

    Germany
    Patent Registration ID,
    SYSTEM FOR THE PREPARATION AND STUDY OF AN ENGLISH-MIZO CORPUS BY FINDING TONAL WORDS, (**GRANTED**)

    A System on Answering Questions and Recommending Recipes based on Ingredients

    “A SYSTEM FOR STUDYING AND PERFORMING THE PART-OF-SPEECH TAGGING FOR MIZO LANGUAGE”

    Germany
    Patent Registration ID,
    A System on Answering Questions and Recommending Recipes based on Ingredients, (**GRANTED**)

    A system for developing part-of-speech (POS) tagging under Using deep learning based approaches on the Khasi POS corpus

    “A SYSTEM FOR STUDYING AND PERFORMING THE PART-OF-SPEECH TAGGING FOR MIZO LANGUAGE”

    Germany
    Patent Registration ID,
    A system for developing part-of-speech (POS) tagging under Using deep learning based approaches on the Khasi POS corpus, (**GRANTED**)

    Efficacy of Formula Representation and Ranking for Mathematical Information Retrieval

    “A SYSTEM FOR STUDYING AND PERFORMING THE PART-OF-SPEECH TAGGING FOR MIZO LANGUAGE”

    Germany
    Patent Registration ID,
    Efficacy of Formula Representation and Ranking for Mathematical Information Retrieval, (**GRANTED**)

    Sl.No: 1

    Title Of Research Project: " Intelligent Speech-to-Speech Translation with Lip-Syncing for Educational Domain "

    Sponsored By: SERB or ANRF

    Overall Budget: Rs 2300000

    Duration: Feb 02, 2024 - Feb 01, 2027 (3 years)

    Status: Ongoing

    Principal Investigator: Dr. Partha Pakray, NIT Silchar

    Sl.No: 2

    Title Of Research Project: " Design & Development of Low-Cost Hemodialysis Machine with Remote Monitoring Facility "

    Sponsored By: DST-BT, Govt. of West Bengal, Govt. of India

    Overall Budget: Rs 4112000

    Duration: Sep 01, 2024 - Aug 30, 2027 (2 years 12 months 3 days)

    Status: Ongoing

    Principal Investigator: Dr. PRATIM SENGUPTA, Nephrocare India

    Co Principal Investigator: Dr. Koushik Guha, Dr. Partha Pakray, Dr. Sukumar Pati

    Collaborated With: Nephrocare India

    Sl.No: 3

    Title Of Research Project: " An Application of Textual Entailment and Semantic Similarity in Scientific Document Retrieval System "

    Sponsored By: SERB or ANRF

    Overall Budget: Rs 1831000

    Duration: Apr 01, 2016 - Sep 30, 2019 (3 years 5 months 29 days)

    Status: Completed

    Principal Investigator: Dr. Partha Pakray

    Sl.No: 4

    Title Of Research Project: " Textual Instructions to Virtual Actions "

    Sponsored By: DST-DAAD Funded Project

    Overall Budget: Rs 1890000

    Duration: Jun 22, 2016 - Jun 21, 2018 (1 year 11 months 30 days)

    Status: Completed

    Principal Investigator: Dr. Partha Pakray

    Sl.No: 5

    Title Of Research Project: " A Computer-aided Recommendation Engine for the Health Diagnostic "

    Sponsored By: ASEAN-DST Funded Project, International Division

    Overall Budget: Rs 1133000

    Duration: Sep 10, 2019 - Sep 09, 2021 (1 year 11 months 30 days)

    Status: Completed

    Principal Investigator: Dr. Partha Pakray

    Sl.No: 6

    Title Of Research Project: " Deep Summarization Evaluation "

    Sponsored By: CEFIPRA-DST Funded Project, International Division

    Overall Budget: Rs 3106400

    Duration: Jan 20, 2020 - Jul 30, 2023 (3 years 6 months 10 days)

    Status: Completed

    Principal Investigator: Dr. Partha Pakray

    Collaborated With: CNRS and Aix-Marseille University, France

    Sl.No: 7

    Title Of Research Project: " Medicbot: A healthcare Assistant "

    Sponsored By: ARTPARK, IISc Bangalore

    Overall Budget: Rs 660000

    Duration: Aug 01, 2021 - Jul 30, 2022 (11 months 29 days)

    Status: Completed

    Principal Investigator: Dr. Partha Pakray, Mentor Project

    Sl.No: 8

    Title Of Research Project: " Quantum Machine Learning for Natural Language Processing Applications "

    Sponsored By: MeitY

    Overall Budget: Rs 2500000

    Duration: Mar 15, 2022 - Jun 14, 2025 (3 years 2 months 30 days)

    Status: Ongoing

    Principal Investigator: Dr. Partha Pakray

    Co Principal Investigator: Dr. Sandeep Kumar Dash and Dr. Prabina Pattanayak

    Collaborated With: National Institute of Technology Mizoram

    Sl.No: 1

    Title Of Research Project : " CollegeME – A Recommender System for College Admission (US & Europe institutes) "

    Sponsored By: SenseNet Technologies Pvt Ltd, Kolkata

    Overall Budget: Rs 100000

    Duration: Apr 01, 2020 - Sep 30, 2020 (6 months 2 days)

    Status: Completed

    Principal Investigator: Partha Pakray

    Sl.No Award/Recognition/Achievement Year Approved agency
    1 Received ERCIM Fellowship 2013 European Union
    2 Received ERCIM Fellowship 2014 European Union
    3 Our system “Development of a Voice-based Image Descriptor in the Indian Languages for visually challenged people” has been demonstrated in IInvenTiv 2025 at IIT Madras during Feb 28 to March 01, 2025. 2025 IIT Madras

    Sl.No Course Title Resource Person Documents Area Funding Agency Date
    1 Quantum Natural Language Processing, Theory, Applications and Prospects Thomas Hueber, Prof. Giuseppe Di Molfetta, Prof. Hachem Kadri, France Organized by Aix-Marseille University, France and National Institute of Technology, Silchar, India. The workshop aims at introducing the French and Indian communities to quantum natural language processing (QNLP) CEFIPRA, DST Sep 25 2024 - Sep 27 2024

    ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE:

    • Warden – Boys Hostel (BH-1) – from April, 2024 – now
    • Associate Warden – Aryabhata Hostel (PG Hostel) – March, 2024
    • Undergraduate Research Council (UGRC) – Coordinator – Feb, 2024
    • Dark Patterns Buster Hackathon 2023 – NODAL Officer
    • Secretary LPFA, Gymkhana Office Oct, 2023 – Now
    • Departmental Purchase Committee Member, Oct, 2023 – Now
    • Judge/evaluators for Internal Hackathon SIH 2023
    • SPOC for KAVACH 2023
    • Faculty Adviser – 6th Semester (CSE), Jan-June, 2023
    • Department PhD Program Committee (DPPC) Member, NIT Silchar, Aug, 2021 – Oct, 2023
    • Member, IIC Council, NIT Silchar
    • Technical Committee Member, Induction Programme, BTech Batch 2020-2024 
    • Technical Committee Member, XIII Convocation, Nov 02, 2020
    • DPC Member, Computer Center, NIT Silchar
    • Department Undergraduate Program Committee (DUPC) Member, NIT Silchar, 2019-2021
    • NBA Co-coordinator, NIT Silchar
    • Dy. Nodal Officer, Deemed University Examination – AICTE , NIT Silchar
    • QS world university ranking member – institute level, NIT Silchar                

     

    ORGANIZED Various Research Evaluation Track/ Shared Task:

     

    Guest Editors:

     

    REVIEWER – Books, Journals & Conferences:

     

    COURSE/GIAN/WORKSHOP ORGANIZED:

    • Organized Course: "151043K01: Introduction to Robot Operating System" by Prof. Dr. David Eduardo Pinto Avendaño, BUAP Mexico at the Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering at NIT Mizoram (March 01-10, 2016). Sponsored by GIAN, MHRD, Govt of India (Act as a Host Faculty).  (Successfully Conducted) Link: http://www.gian.iitkgp.ac.in/ccourses/approvecourses
    • Organizing Course "161043K03 : NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND SENTIMENT ANALYSIS" by Prof. Alexander Gelbukh, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico in the Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering at NIT Mizoram (August 01-10, 2016). Sponsored by GIAN, MHRD, Govt of India (Act as a Host Faculty).  (Successfully Conducted) Link: http://www.gian.iitkgp.ac.in/ccourses/approvecourses2
    • Organizing Course "161043K02 : Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing" by Dr. Benoit Favre, Aix-Marseille University (AMU), France in the Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering at NIT Mizoram (Feb 18-22, 2017). Sponsored by GIAN, MHRD, Govt of India (Act as a Host Faculty). (Successfully Conducted) Link: http://www.gian.iitkgp.ac.in/ccourses/approvecourses2

     

     

    Important Notice
    Looking for BTech and MTech Students (CSE, ECE & EE) for Final Year Project: LLMs, Quantum Computing, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Gender Bias, Speech-Speech Translation etc. You may contact me partha@cse.nits.ac.in Recommendation Letter for Higher Studies - Note: Please do not include my name in any higher studies abroad applications without my prior consent. I am not looking for any interns at the moment. Kindly refrain from sending internship emails.
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