Invited Talks Academic Visits Collaborators

Invited Talks (Selected)

  • Invited talk on “Inducing Empathy, Politeness and Persona in Conversational Agent”, 12th Advanced Summer School on NLP”, June 21-July 06, 2024, IIIT Hyderabad, India
  • Tutorial on “Affective Computing for Social Good Applications: Current Advances, Gaps and Opportunities in Conversational Setting”, ECIR 2024
  • Tutorial on “Empathetic Conversational Artificial Intelligence Systems: Recent Advances and New Frontiers”, IJCAI 2023
  • Harnessing the power of NLP for improved clinical decision making and patient care. The 6th International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery from Healthcare Data. In IJCAI 2023
  • Being Polite and Empathetic: Inducing Politeness and Empathy in Conversational AI, 2023 ECCE, Bangladesh (Feb, 2023)
  • Deep Learning for NLP, 2nd International Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Bangla Language Processing, CUET, Chittagong, Bangladesh
  • Being polite and Empathetic: Inducing Politeness and Empathy in Conversational AI, Wipro DMTS (2022)
  • Being polite and Empathetic : Inducing Politeness and Empathy in Conversational AI, Microsoft (2022)
  • Emotion and Novelty guided Misinformation Hate Speech Detection, LinkedIn (2022)
  • Talk in Accenture Global Seminar Series on "Persona, Empathy and Knowledge Grounded Persuasive Conversational System (March 08, 2022)
  • Invited talk on "Neural Machine Translation in Low-resource Language" , Speech Synthesis, University of Kerala (Feb 22, 2022)
  • Deep Learning, NER, Sentiment Analysis, QA, AI Workshop, LG Soft, 2021
  • Deep Learning for Sentiment Analysis, AI and ML Workshop, Rajasthan IEEE Section, 2021
  • Deep Learning for Fine-grained to Multimodal Sentiment Analysis, International Workshop on Computational Analysis of Undesired Texts on Social Media, Bangladesh
  • Invited Talk on "Unimodal and Multimodal Conversational AI", Tutorial on Conversational AI, organized by Samsung, ICON 2021
  • Panel Discussion, Shallow Parsing in Indian Languages, ICON 2021
  • Invited Talk Invited talk on "Being Polite and Empathetic: Inducing Politeness and Empathy in Conversational AI (Dec 16, 2021)
  • Deep Learning, NER, Sentiment Analysis, QA, AI Workshop, LG Soft, 2021 (July 16)
  • Deep Learning for Fine-grained to Multimodal Sentiment Analysis, International Workshop on Computational Analysis of Undesired Texts on Social Media, Bangladesh
  • Empathetic Conversation Generation, Huawei, 2021M
  • Conversational AI, NIT Andhra Pradesh, 2021
  • Empathetic Conversational AI, NIT Mizoram, 2021
  • Deep Learning for Sentiment Analysis, IIIT Gwalior, 2021
  • Invited talk on NLP for Social Good, Vaibhav Summit, Govt of India, 2020
  • From Unimodal to Multimodal Sentiment Analysis, NIT Rourkela, 2020
  • Fine-grained and Multimodal Sentiment Analysis, Huawei, 2020
  • Knowledge Grounded Empathetic NLG, Asif Ekbal, Accenture R&D. 2020
  • Tutorial on “Machine Translation in Vernacular Languages”, Flipkart Data Science Conference, August 14, 2020
  • Keynote talk on “Empathetic Conversational Artificial Intelligence”, SNLP 2020 (Symposium on NLP 2020) organized by the National Language Processing Center (NLPC) of the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, October 20, 2020
  • Keynote talk on “Towards building an Empathetic Conversational System” IEEE CIS Summer School 2020, November 26, 2020, IIT Indore
  • From Unimodal to Multimodal Sentiment Analysis, NIT Rourkela, 2020
  • Conversational AI, NIT Andhra Pradesh, 2021
  • Empathetic Conversational AI, NIT Mizoram, 2021
  • Fine-grained and Multimodal Sentiment Analysis, Asif Ekbal, Huawei, 2020
  • Deep Learning for Sentiment Analysis, Asif Ekbal,
  • Knowledge Grounded NLG, Asif Ekbal, Accenture R&D., 2020
  • Empathetic Conversation Generation, Huawei, 2021
  • Invited Talk on Sentiment Analysis, Languaging and Translating: Within and Beyond, IIT Patna, Feb 21 - 23, 2020
  • You need to know more: Some Investigations in Aspect based Sentiment Analysis at Dublin City University, 2019 (1 hour)
  • Knowledge Grounded NLG, Samsung R&D, 2019
  • AI NLP ML Activities at IIT Patna at Dublin City University, 2019 (30 minutes)
  • Concept to Code: Aspect Sentiment Classification with Deep Learning (Tutorial) at IJCAI 2019, Macao
  • Towards building a Human-like Chatbot: Inducing Courteousness and Affects in AI enabled Conversation at IIT Indore
  • Machine Learning for Sentiment Analysis at PES University, Bangalore (1 hour)
  • Towards building a Human-like Chatbot: Inducing Courteousness and Affects in AI enabled Conversational AI at NIT Rourkela(1.5 hours)
  • Aspect based Sentiment Analysis at NIT Rourkela(1.5 hours)
  • Emotion-Aware Dialogue Generation at NERIST, Berhampore(1.5 hours )
  • Sentiment Analysis using Machine Learning at NERIST, Berhampore(1.5hours )
  • Aspect based Sentiment Analysis at NIT Patna(3 hours )
  • Dialogue Systems at NIT Patna(3 hours )
  • Search In AI at NIT Patna(3 hours)
  • Machine Learning basics at NIT Patna(3 hours )
  • Keynote Talk, From Coarse-grained to Fine-grained Sentiment Analysis: The need of the hour, International Conference on Machine Learning and Signal Processing (MISP-2017), IIT Indore, India, December 22-24, 2017
  • Tutorial on Aspect Level Sentiment Analysis, A Trend towards Machine Learning: Techniques and Applications,December 26, 2017- January 1, 2018
  • Keynote Talk on Aspect based Sentiment Analysis, International Workshop on Data Analytics and Machine Intelligence (DAMI), December 11-13, 2017
  • Tutorial on Named Entity Recognition and Sentiment Analysis , ACM India NLP Summer School, IIT Kharagpur, June 1-21, 2017




Academic Visits

  • Visited Dublin City University, Ireland during July, 2019
  • Visited Kyoto University, Japan during March-September, 2018
  • Visited TU Darmstadt, Germany from May-July,2016
  • Visited University of Caen, France during May-June, 2015
  • Visited University of Caen, France during June-July, 2014
  • Visited Human Language Technology Team of University of Caen Basse-Normandie, F-14032 Caen Cedex FRANCE during December 2013
  • Visited University of Trento, Italy during December, 2013
  • Visited FBK, Italy during December, 2013
  • Post Doctoral Research Fellow, University of Heidelberg, Germany from 1st September, 2009 to 30th June, 2010
  • Postdoctoral research fellow in Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento, Italy from September, 2010 - January, 2011 and June-July, 2011
  • Visited University of Melbourne, Australia in 2006



Collaborators

  • Dr. Amitava Das, AIISC, University of South Calorina, USA
  • Dr. Ashwini Vaidya, HSS, IIT Delhi, India
  • Dr. Tanmoy Chakraborty, Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi, India
  • Dr. Samit Bhattacharyya, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Guwahati, India
  • Dr. Shad Akhtar, Department Computer Science and Engineering, IIIT Delhi
  • Dr. Poonam Bansal, Department of AI & Data Sciences, Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University for Women
  • Dr. Amita Dev (Vice Chancellor, IGDTUW), Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University for Women
  • Dr. Muralikrishna S N, Manipal Institute of Technology, MAHE, Manipal
  • Prof. Dipti Misra Sharma, IIIT Hyderabad, India
  • Prof. Prasenjit Majumder, DAAICT, Gandhinagar, India
  • Prof. Massimo Poesio, Queens University, UK
  • Prof. Gael Dias, University of Caen, France
  • Dr. Olga Uryupina, University of Trento, Italy
  • Dr. Diego Molla Aliod, Department of Computing, Macquarie University, Australia
  • Dr. Chris Biemann, University of Hambug, Germany
  • Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya, CSE dept., IIT Bombay
  • Prof. Niladri Chatterjee, Department of Mathematics, IIT Delhi
  • Prof. S. Bandyopadhyay, Jadavpur University, Kolkata
  • Dr. Samrat Mondal, IIT Patna
  • Dr. Sriparna Saha, IIT Patna