Grants

With Government Support

  1. COILD- Centre of Indian Language Data, Sponsored by Bhasini, Meity, 27.30 Crores($3267428) - (with IIT Delhi, IIT Guwahati, IIIT Delhi, IGDTUW, MIT Manipal, DIBD)- Ongoing (Role: Chief Investigator)
  2. An Empathetic Knowledge Grounded Conversational System for Mental Health Counseling and Legal Assistance, Sponsored by IHUB Anubhuti, TIH, IIIT Delhi, Value: 30 Lacs ($40802)- Ongoing (Role: PI)
  3. Vidyaapati: A System for Bidirectional Machine Translation Involving Bengali, Konkani, Maithili, Marathi and Hindi, NLTM, MeiTY, Govt of India, Value: 120.77 Lakhs ($159038.26)-Ongoing (Role: PI)
  4. Bhashini: Indian Language to Indian Language Machine Translation System, Sponsored by NLTM, Meity, Govt of India, Value: 24.36 Lakhs ($31603.50) -Ongoing (Role: PI)
  5. Sentiment, Emotion, Sarcasm and Hate Speech Detection (SESH), Sponsored by CDOT, Value: 42 Lacs (Ongoing) (Role: PI)
  6. Sevak- An Intelligent Indian Language Chatbot, Sponsored by Imprint2A, SERB, Govt of India and in collaboration with Wipro, Value: INR 98 Lacs ($140473.20) (completed)
  7. IITP Centre of Excellence in Cyber Crime Prevention against Women and Children- AI based Tools for Women and Children Safety, Sponsored by MHA, Govt of India, 284 Lakhs ($2113230459.69)- With other faculty members of IIT Patna (Completed)
  8. Information Retrieval via Knowledge Graphs Developed for Aircraft Accidents Database and Aircraft Manuals, Sponsored by Imprint2A, SERB, Govt of India, Value: INR 54 Lacs ($73443)- (Completed)
  9. Speech to Speech Machine Translation, Sponsored by PSA, Govt of India, Value: INR 13 Lacs ($17680)-(Completed)
  10. Centre of Excellence for Natural Language Processing-IITP, Sponsored by Elsevier, Value: Rs. 213 Lacs ($ 295403.00) (Completed)
  11. A Platform for Cross-lingual and Multilingual Event Monitoring in Indian Languages, Imprint-1, MHRD and MeiTY, Govt. of India, Outlay: 85 Lacs ($117883.00)-Completed
  12. Hindi to English Machine Aided Translation in Judicial Domain, TDIL, MeiTY, Govt. of India - Consortium of 4 institutes, Value: 204 Lacs ($ 282920.00 ) -(Completed)
  13. CDAC-IIT Patna Digital Forensic Center with Artificial Intelligence based Knowledge Support Tools, Meity, Govt. of India; and Govt. of Bihar, Rs. 400 Lacs ($ 554746.00) (IIT Patna + CDAC Kolkata (Completed)
  14. Development of Automated Tools using Machine Learning and Soft Computing for Information Extraction from Biomedical Domains- Centre for Advanced System Engineering, IIT PATNA- Rs. 590,000.00 Lac (Completed)
  15. Optimization Techniques for Human Language Technology, Australia-India Optimization Techniques for Human Language Technology, Australia-India Strategic Research Fund (AISRF)- 2012 with Macquarie University, Australia and IIT Bombay (completed)- Rs. 482,000.00 Lac (completed)

With Industry Support

  1. AI and NLP for Financial Analytics, sponsored by Bancapp Automation Private Limited. (77 lakh) - Ongoing - (Role: PI)
  2. Conversational Agents with Negotiation and Influencing ability, Sponsored by Accenture, Value: 56 Lakhs ($ 67396.50)- Ongoing - (Role: PI).
  3. Percuro-A Holistic Solution for Clinical Text Mining, Sponsored by Wipro Ltd, Value: INR 39 Lakhs ($53042.38) [only for IIT Patna] (Consortium partner: University of South Carolina, USA) (ongoing) - (Role: PI)
  4. Dynamic Knowledge Natural Language Generation, Sponsored by Samsung Research, Value: 18 Lacs ($24191) (ongoing) - (Role: PI)
  5. HELIOS - Hate, Hyperpartisan, and Hyperpluralism Elicitation and Observer System, Sponsored by Wipro Ltd, India, Value: INR 42 Lacs ($55229) [only for IIT Patna].(Consortium partners: UT Austin, USA; and IIIT Delhi, India) - Ongoing - (Role: PI)
  6. Knowledge Grounded Conversational System, Sponsored by Accenture, India, Value: 2232375.00 ($30000) (completed)
  7. Product Review and Conversation Machine Translation, Sponsored by Flipkart, India, Value: 36 Lacs ($28221.04) (ongoing) - (Role: PI)
  8. ATL IIT AI Lab (QA, Dialogue Systems), Sponsored by Accenture Pvt. Limited, Value: Rs. 65 Lac ($ 90146.00 ) - with Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya, IIT Bombay and Dr. Sriparna Saha, IIT Patna. (Completed)
  9. Centre of Excellence for Natural Language Processing-IITP, Sponsored by Elsevier, Value: Rs. 213 Lacs ($ 295403.00) (Completed) .
  10. R&D Projects, Shusrut: ezDI Research Lab on Health Informatics-IITP, Sponsored by ezDI, Value: Rs.145 Lacs ($ 201096.00) - with Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya, IIT Bombay. (Completed)
  11. Research on Sentiment Analysis and Image Recognition, Skymap Global Pvt. Limited, Value: 51 Lacs ($70730.00) (2018-2020) - with other faculty members from IIT Patna. (Completed)
  12. Multimodal Input Text Summarization, LG Soft, Outlay: 15.5 Lakhs (Completed)
  13. Restaurant Recommendation, LG Soft, Outlay: 15.3 Lakhs. (Completed)