Invited Talks/Seminars

1. [June 2026] Invited as the Guest of Honour at International MSME DAY Conclave 2026 organized by Eastern UP Chamber of Commerce and Industry (EUPCCI) at Kanha Shyam Hotel on 27th June 2026.

2. [May 2026] Invitation to Serve as Resource Person in Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT, Bhubaneswar) in the 5-Day Workshop on “Low-Resource NLP: Techniques and Applications with LLMs” held from 6–10 June 2026. 

3. [Nov 2025] Expert lectures at IIIT Lucknow from 20th to 22nd Nov. 2025, as a part of AICTE-QIP-PG Certificate Programme on "Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning"

4. [Sep 2025] Taken Guest lectures at IIIT Lucknow from 15th to 17th September 2025, as a part of AICTE-QIP-PG Certificate Programme on "Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning"

5. [July 2025] Presented Tutorial on "CROSS-MODAL OFFENSIVE MEME ANALYSIS" in the 5th International Conference on Emerging Techniques in Computational Intelligence (ICETCI) 2025 organized by Mahindra University, Telangana, Hyderabad

6. [May 2025] Invited speaker at e-FDP on “Artificial Intelligence Enabled Pharmaceutical Research: From Drug Discovery to Clinical Trials” (AIER-2025) on 27th May 2025 organized by Amity Institute of Pharmacy, Lucknow

7. [April 2025] Guest Speaker in online FDP on 'Machine Learning for Social Good' organized by  IIITDM Jabalpur, India during 18.04.2025 - 25.04.2025. 

8. [March 2025] Invited as an Expert Speaker in One Week Short-Term Course on “Emerging Paradigms in Artificial Intelligence, Networking and Security  at REC, Sonbhadra on March 04th, 2025.

9. [June 2024] Delivered AI-ML hands-on sessions in the one-month computational training program at NIPER Raebareli-Transit Campus at Lucknow organized in the month of  June 2024.

10. [Jan 2024] Delivered a Guest Session in the Ministry of MSME-sponsored five-day Advanced Entrepreneurial Skill Development Program (ESDP), 2023-2024, on Artificial Intelligence at IIIT Lucknow.

11. [Jan 2024] Invited as a guest speaker at 5 Days FDP program on “The future of generative AI in academic research and publishing" at Institute of Engineering and Management, Kolkata, on Jan 4th, 2024.

12. [June 2023] Co-oridnator and trainer in a one-month short term course on “Computational Training Progran” from June 01-30, 2023 at NIPER Raibareli, Uttar Pardesh.

13. [June 2023] Invited as a guest speaker at IEEE - EBSCO Knowledge Feast 2023 on June 16, 2023, Novotel Lucknow Gomti Nagar, Lucknow, to deliver a talk on “Relevancy of Research & Learning through Digital Resources”.

14. [Feb 2023] Presented a UGC-sponsoed one-day webinar on “Perspective of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning with their Applications in Rea Life Scenario” at Kurukshetra University, Haryana on Feb. 20th, 2023.

15. [Nov 2022] Presented a tutorial on “Summarization Systems: From Text to Multimodal“ at  International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP) 2022 on Nov. 22, 2022.

16. [Feb 2022] Invited as a resource person to present a talk as part of Online Faculty Development Programme on Natural Language Processing at National Institute of Technology Patna, Bihar, India on 18th Feb, 2022.

17. [March 2021] "Multi-objective optimization based Cross-language Summarization for less-represented languages" at Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT), France on 1st March, 2021. 

18. [Jan 2021] “Summarization of Scientific and Microblog Text” at Amity Institute of Information Technology, Lucknow as a part of FDP on Artificial Intelligence” on 13th January, 2021.

19. [Dec. 2020]“Learning to Summarize: Text Summarization” at Cochin University of Science & Technology as a part of AICTE Sponsored FDP on “Machine Learning & Deep Learning: A Hands-On Approach” on 14th December, 2020.

20. “Text Summarization and hand on session” at Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India as part of NPIU/TEQIP-III Faculty Training on Future Skill Technologies on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

21. [Oct 2020]“Text Summarization” at KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India as part of ATAL FDP on “Artificial Intelligence in Natural Language Processing” on 18th October, 2020.

Workshop/Special Session Organized:

1. Organizer of Special Session on "Evolutionary Algorithms and Large Language Model: Theories and Applications in Natural Language Processing" co-located with IEEE WCCI 2026 [Link]

2. Co-organized a special Session at IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI 2021)

3. Co-organized a full scale Workshop & Shared Task on "Scope Detection of the Peer Review Articles (SDPRA)" co-located @PAKDD 2021

Fellowships

4. Awarded postdoctoral fellowship as part of CIMI scientific programme to work with joint research unit (IRIT) of  Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier, France from 01-Nov-2020 to 31-Oct-2021 (https://www.cimi.univ-toulouse.fr/en/appels-offres/post-doctorat/).      

5. Recipient of fellowship from Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India, during the study of Master of Technology, 2012-2014.

6. Recipient of fellowship from Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India, during the study of Ph.D., 2016-Sept. 2020.

Travel Grants/Support

1. Attended IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (IEEE WCCI 2024) in Japan (June 29th - July 5th, 2024) to present a research paper with the support of the IIITA CPDA grant. 

2. Awarded International Travel Support (ITS) by SERB for participating in "EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION RETRIEVAL 2023, Ireland (02 April 2023 to 06 April 2023)   [Not able to visit due to delay in visa process]

3. Received conference registration grant from IEEE Computational Intelligence Society to register at IEEE International Conference on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2020) to be held in Glasgow, UK from 19-24th July, 2020.

4. Received travel grant from IEEE Computer Society and Microsoft Research Lab to present my work at 2018 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2018) held in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.

5. Received partial travel grant from Microsoft Research Lab to present my work at International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP) 2017 held in Guangzhou, China.

6. Approved full travel grant by CSIR, New Delhi, India to attend the International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP)  2020.   

Reviewer of Peer-reviewed Journals/Conferences

1. ACM Transaction on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (IF: 1.04)

2. IEEE Transactions of Computational Social Systems

3. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation (IF: 11.554) 

4. Springer Artificial Intelligence Review (IF: 8.139)

5. Elsevier Knowledge-based Systems (IF: 5.101)

6. Elsevier Expert Systems with Applications (IF: 5.45)

7. IEEE Internet Computing (IF: 4.23)

8. MIT Press Evolutionary Computation (IF: 3.826)

9. Elsevier Knowledge and Information Systems (IF: 2.83)

10. Springer Multimedia Tools and Applications (IF: 2.313)

11. MDPI Symmetry (IF: 2.645)

12. PLoS ONE (IF: 3.240)

13. Springer Sadhana (IF: 0.796)

14. Springer Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering (Impact factor: 1.474)

15. Springer SN Computer Science

Professional Membership

1. IEEE (ID: 94862731)

2. ACM (ID: 7191126) 

3. MultiLing Community

4. APNNS (Asia Pacific Neural Network Society) (ID: 21030249)

Others

1. My team (IIITBH-IITP) obtained the best performance on community summaries of the CL-SciSumm 2020 task at the first workshop on Scholarly Document Processing collocated with EMNLP 2020.

2. Successfully qualified the University Grant Commission - National Eligibility Test (UGC-NET) for the lectureship.

3. Successfully qualified Graduate Aptitude Test Engineering (GATE) examination thrice in the years 2012, 2013 and 2014.

4. Member of Departmental Administrative Program Committee (DAPC) in the department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Patna [Feb. 2019-June 2020].