Anup Kumar Kolya - Students

Sourav Das

Sourav is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Applications at Meghnad Saha Institute of Technology and pursuing Ph.D. in CSE (AI-NLP) at IIIT Kalyani (2022–present). He concurrently holds External Researcher positions at IIT Patna’s Centre of Indian Language Data (COIL-D) (Nov 2025–present), funded by the flagship Bhasini mission of MeitY, Govt. of India, and IISER Kolkata’s Large Language Models Research Group (LaRGo) (May 2024–present). Sourav did his M.Tech in CSE from RCCIIT Kolkata, an autonomous institute under the Department of Higher Education, Govt. of West Bengal (2018, First Class First Rank; dissertation on “A Deep Learning Approach for Sentiment & Trend Analysis of GST in India using Topic-Sentiment Modeling” under my supervision). His publications included in journals such as ACM TOIS, Language Resources and Evaluation, SNAM, Evolutionary Intelligence, Sādhanā, and book chapters with IGI Global, Wiley, and Elsevier. He has also published conference papers at EMNLP, ACL KnowLLM, EMNLP NLP4DH, FIRE, RAAI, IEMIS, etc. Sourav has received several research recognitions and fellowships, such as the ISI Kolkata Best Doctoral Research Award (2023), ACM India Anveshan Setu Ph.D. Fellowship (2023), ACL 2021 Diversity & Inclusion Award, Best Paper Awards in several conferences, MHRD RUSA 2.0 fellowship, and TEQIP-II fellowship.

Arunava Kumar Chakraborty

Arunava is presently working as a Team Manager at Paperpedia Pvt. Ltd. Previously, he worked as an Academic Researcher with the same organization. Arunava received his M.Tech degree in Computer Science and Engineering from RCCIIT in July 2021. He was the first-class first-rank holder within his discipline. His thesis title was “Sentiment Analysis on Large-Scale Covid-19 Tweets using Hybrid Convolutional LSTM Based on Naïve Bayes Sentiment Modeling”, which he carried out under my supervision. Previously, he completed his MCA degree from Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology, WB, and his UG degree from West Bengal State University. He has published in one journal, conference paper, and book chapter each. For his publication at the International Conference on Research and Applications in Artificial Intelligence (RAAI 2020), he received the best paper award in the respective track. He has several credentials and certifications in Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, and Python. His working area includes Sentiment Analysis and Deep Learning.

Anit Chakraborty

Anit is working as an AI Architect at Publicis Groupe. He was previously a Deep Learning Specialist at Standard Chartered Bank. He has also worked as a Data Scientist in Finomial, Data Scientist in PseudoPanda, and a Machine Learning Engineer in Onometra Technologies. He has also served as a Research Associate in the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata. He completed his B.Tech degree in Computer Science & Engineering from RCCIIT in 2018. He completed his B.Tech final year project “A Deep Learning-Inspired Method for Social Media Satire Detection” under my supervision, and has published a number of conference papers. His research area includes Deep Learning, Evolutionary Computing, and Machine Vision.

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