ONGOING
Bias and Fairness of Online Search & Recommendation Algorithms (Max Planck Partner Group with MPI-SWS)
Duration: November 2021 – October 2026 (5 years)
Role: PI
Funding agency: Max Planck Society, Germany
Funding amount: 100,000 Euros
NyayKosh: Multilingual Resources for AI-based Legal Analytics
Duration: March 2024 – March 2026 (2 years)
Role: PI (Co-PIs: Prof. Uday Shankar from RGSOIPL, IIT Kharagpur, Prof. Ashutosh Modi from IIT Kanpur, Prof. Kripabandhu Ghosh from IISER Kolkata, Prof. Shouvik Guha from WBNUJS Kolkata)
Funding agency: AI4ICPS Hub Foundation, IIT Kharagpur
Funding amount: INR 87.53 Lakhs [shared among the four institutes]
Towards Sustainable AI Models: Accessing LLMs Efficiently
Duration: September 2023 – August 2025
Role: PI (jointly with Professor Niloy Ganguly, Department of CSE, IIT Kharagpur)
Funding agency: Accenture Corporation
Funding amount: 19.98 Lakhs INR (25,000 USD)
Misleading Data Predictor
Duration: December 2023 – November 2025 (2 years)
Role: PI (jointly with Dr. Mainack Mondal, Department of CSE, IIT Kharagpur)
Funding agency: Vishvas News, Jagran New Media
Funding amount: 10.8 Lakhs INR
Completed
Claim Detection and Verification using Deep NLP: an Indian Perspective
Duration: February 2021 – February 2024 (3 years)
Role: Co-PI (PI: Dr. Dipankar Das, Department of CSE, Jadavpur University)
Funding agency: DRDO, Government of India
Funding amount: 71.422 Lakhs INR [shared between IITKGP and Jadavpur University]
Smart Legal Consultant: AI-based Legal Analytics
Duration: January 2021 – January 2024 (3 years)
Role: PI (jointly with Dr. Kripabandhu Ghosh, Department of CSA, IISER Kolkata; Co-PI: Professor P. P. Chakrabarti, IITKGP)
Funding agency: TCG Centres for Research and Education in Science and Technology (CREST)
Funding amount: 134.09 Lakhs INR [shared between IITKGP (80.701 Lakhs INR) and IISER Kolkata (53.389 Lakhs INR)]
FinTalk: A Collaborative Platform for Extracting Highlights and Summaries from Financial Documents via Continuous Curation, Evaluation and Feedback
Duration: May 2021 – May 2023 (2 years)
Role: Co-PI (PI: Dr. Pawan Goyal, Department of CSE, IIT Kharagpur)
Funding agency: Goldman Sachs Services Private Limited
Funding amount: 70.8 Lakhs INR
NYAYA: A Legal Assistance System for Legal Experts and the Common Man in India
Duration: June 2019 – May 2022 (3 years)
Role: Co-PI (PI: Dr. Arnab Bhattacharyya, IIT Kanpur)
Funding agency: Science & Engineering Research Board (SERB), DST, Government of India
Funding amount: 44.73 Lakhs INR [shared between IITKGP (19.33 Lakhs INR) and IIT Kanpur]
Architecting Radically Human Processes and Applications
Duration: April 2020 – April 2022 (2 years)
Role: PI (Co-PI: Professor Niloy Ganguly, Department of CSE, IIT Kharagpur)
Funding agency: Accenture Corporation
Funding amount: 19.13 Lakhs INR (25,000 USD)
Generating Actionable and Reliable Summaries from Social Media in a Post-disaster Scenario
Duration: March 2019 – September 2021 (2.5 years)
Role: Co-PI (PIs: Professor Niloy Ganguly, IIT Kharagpur and Professor Prasenjit Mitra, Pennsylvania State University)
Funding agency: MHRD, Government of India (under SPARC scheme)
Funding amount: 49.52 Lakhs INR
Building Healthcare Informatics Systems Utilising Web Data
Duration: April 2018 – March 2021 (3 years)
Role: PI (jointly with Dr. Arnab Jana, C-USE, IIT Bombay)
Funding agency: DST, Government of India (under ICPS-EDA scheme)
Funding amount: 43.54 Lakhs INR [shared between IITKGP (20.76 Lakhs INR) and IIT Bombay]
Building Information Systems for Emergency Relief and Preparedness
Duration: April 2018 – April 2021 (3 years)
Role: PI
Funding agency: SRIC, IIT Kharagpur (under ISIRD scheme for young faculties)
Funding amount: 27.40 Lakhs INR
Utilising Online Social Media for Understanding and Countering Disease Outbreak
Duration: July 2017 – June 2019
Role: PI (jointly with Professor Niloy Ganguly, Department of CSE, IIT Kharagpur)
Funding agency: Accenture Corporation
Funding amount: 16.07 Lakhs INR (25,000 USD)
Utilising Social Media for Disaster Relief: Linguistic Analysis and Matching of Resource Requests and Offers on Twitter
Duration: June 2017 – May 2019
Role: PI
Funding agency: Microsoft Research India
Funding amount: 7.01 Lakhs INR
Post-Disaster Situation Analysis and Resource Management Using Delay-Tolerant Peer-to-Peer Wireless Networks
Duration: September 2013 – December 2018
Role: Co-PI (from IIEST Shibpur) (PI: Professor Sipra DasBit, Department of CST, IIEST Shibpur)
Funding agency: ITRA, Media Labs Asia and DEITY, Government of India
Funding amount: 58.66 Lakhs INR (for IIEST Shibpur)