Sourav Das
Sourav is a Ph.D. Scholar (ACM Anveshan Setu Fellow) in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Indian Institute of Information Technology, Kalyani (An Institute of National Importance under MoE, Govt. of India). He is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering (AI & ML) at Future Institute of Technology (Approved by AICTE, Govt. of India and Affiliated under MAKAUT, WB, India). Previously, Sourav served as a Faculty Member at the National Institute of Electronics & Information Technology (NIELIT) Kolkata, and Project Fellow in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at Jadavpur University. He received his M.Tech degree in Computer Science and Engineering from RCCIIT in 2018. His thesis work “A Deep Learning Approach for Sentiment & Trend Analysis of GST Tweets in India using Topic-Sentiment Modeling” was done under my supervision. He worked on not one, but two parallel thesis topics during his M.Tech, and presented both the works in his thesis defense in the final semester. Sourav has published in numerous international conference proceedings, journals, book chapters, abstracts, and posters. His research area involves Natural Language Processing, Cognitive AI, and Deep Learning. He is an active reviewer for Oxford University Press, Springer Nature, and Taylor and Francis journals. Sourav has also received honors as the ACL 2021 D&I Subsidy, CIIR-GIEA 2021 Research Excellence Award, Teaching Assistantship in M.Tech from TEQUIP Phase-II (a Government of India project assisted by the World Bank), a first-class first rank in M.Tech, MHRD RUSA 2.0 fellowship, best paper award in RAAI 2020, and among the top 25% national candidates in NITAT 2013.