Amitava Das

Presently I am working as a Lead Scientist at the newly built Wipro AI Lab, Bangalore, India.

Earlier I spent one semester stint at the Mahindra Ecole Centrale, Hyderabad, India as an Associate Professor. Before I spent three years working as an Assistant Professor at the IIIT Sri City, Andhra Pradesh. I was also associated with STRITNE, ISB as a Vising Scientist during July-Dec 2018.

I obtained my PhD (Engineering) from Jadavpur University, India. During my doctoral study I worked for an Indo-Japan collaborative project with the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. In my last endeavor I worked as a Research Scientist in the Human Language Technologies (HiLT) lab at the University of North Texas, USA. Before moving to USA I worked for Samsung Research India, Bangalore as a Chief Engineer. Before that I spent one year working as a European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM) Postdoctoral fellow at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway.

During my doctoral study I mainly worked on Sentiment Analysis but I am interested in almost every aspects of Natural Language Processing (NLP). My research interests broadly span three areas and more specifically their intersection: Human Language, Mind/Cognition and Artificial Intelligence. Presently, I have been fascinated by the evolving research area called Computational Creativity and actively working on various forms of machine’s creativity including linguistics creativity. Presently I am also actively working on code-mixing in social media text and Computational Social Sciences.

Research Interests

My research interests broadly span three areas and more specifically their intersection: human language, mind/cognition and artificial intelligence. Technically the research area is known as Natural Language Processing (NLP), could be further described as a crossroad of formal Linguistics, machine intelligence and cognitive Science. I have been working on language technologies since last 9 years.

I am always working on many things. I am interested in almost every aspects of NLP as listed below:

• Sentiment Analysis
  • Sentiment Lexicon Acquisition (Publications)
  • Subjectivity Detection (Publications)
  • Polarity Classification (Publications)
  • Structurization (Publications)
  • Summarization-Visualization-Tracking (Publications)
  • Others (Publication)
• Social Media Text (Publication)
• Code-Mixing in Social Media Text (Publication)
• Human Computer Interaction-Eye Tracking (Publications)
• Mental Lexicon / Distributional Semantic Network (Publications)
• Named Entity Recognition (NER) (Publications)
• Transliteration (Publications)
• Dependency Parsing (Publications)
• Information Retrieval (Publications)
• Natural language Generation / Information Fusion (Publications)
• Morphology & Stemming (Publication)
• Chunking and Clause Boundary Identification (Publication)
• Computational Humor Recognition and Generation (Publication)
• Crowdsourcing (Publication)
• Contextual Advertising (Publication)
• Computational Creativity (Publication)
• Smart Input Methods (Publication)