Dr.Partha Pakray

Information

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

Key Notes

  • Conference: International - 95
  • Journals: 67
  • Conferences: 121
  • Patents: 5
  • PhD: Guided: 14
  • Post Graduates: Guided: 1
  • Under Graduates: Guided: 6

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DOCTORAL STUDENTS

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PATENTS

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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

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

ParthaPakray, Alexander Gelbukh, and Sivaji Bandyopadhyay, “Natural Language Processing Applications for Low-Resource Languages”, Natural Language Processing, 2025, Impact Factor: 2.3

Advaitha Vetagiri, Partha Pakray, Amitava Das, “A deep dive into automated sexism detection using fine-tuned deep learning and large language models”, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Volume 145, January, 2025, Indexed in SCIE, Impact Factor: 7.5, Quartile: Q1

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)

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

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

To detect AI generated Text

Shubham Kumar, Gourabh Raghuwanshi, Banothu manjula, Karthik Agrawal
Ongoing
Supervisor : Partha Pakray

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

Quantum Natural Language Processing for Part of speech tagging

Angikar Adiel Basumatari, Neha Pramanik, Mosammad Marjana Akter Mim
Completed
Supervisor : Partha Pakray

Deep Learning-Powered Automated Attendance Tracking System

Piyush Musaddi, Bishwashri Roy, Parth Sarthi
Completed
Supervisor : Partha Pakray

AI-Powered Voice-Guided Presentation: Revolutionizing PPT Explanations

Ritu Raj Chanda, Shibam Debnath, Mohit Ranjan
Completed
Supervisor : Partha Pakray

Multi-Input Neural Abstractive Text Summarization with Multi-Objective

Vikrant Rajput
Completed

Formula Retrieval from Scientific Document

Pankaj Kundan Dadure
Completed
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

Development of Some Clustering Techniques using Swarm and Evolutionary Computations

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

Spatial Information Extraction from Text Using Image

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

Deep Interpretable Semantic Textual Similarity (DeepiSTS)

Mr. Goutam Majumdar
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

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

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

Machine Translation: English to Mizo

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

Analysis of POS tagging for Mizo Language

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

Parts-of-Speech tagging for Khasi Language

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

Development of novel meta-heuristic based clustering approaches

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

Quantum Machine Learning for NLP Applications

Mr. Shyambabu Pandey
Ongoing
Supervisor : Dr. Partha Pakray

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

Mr. Advaitha Vetagiri
Ongoing
Supervisor : Dr. Partha Pakray

Automatic Detection of Machine Generated Text

Mr. Annepaka Yadagiri
Ongoing
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: 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

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                

 

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