Pushpak Bhattacharyya
Also known as P. Bhattacharyya, P. K. Bhattacharyya, Pushpak Bhattacharyyaa
Pushpak Bhattacharyya was a researcher in natural language processing and machine learning whose work included Indian-language machine translation, IndoWordNet, and computational sarcasm. He earned degrees at IIT Kharagpur, IIT Kanpur, and IIT Bombay and brought the Computational Linguistics conference to India in 2010. He directed IIT Patna, served as president of the Association for Computational Linguistics, and received IIT Bombay's H.H. Mathur Research Excellence Award. In August 2025, he chaired the RBI's FREE-AI committee; he died in October 2025.
Timeline
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1984–1994
Three degrees across IITs
He earns a B.Tech from IIT Kharagpur in 1984, an M.Tech from IIT Kanpur in 1986, and a PhD from IIT Bombay in 1994.
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2010
Bringing COLING to India
In 2010, he brings the Computational Linguistics conference (COLING) to India.
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2015
Harnessing context incongruity
His research includes Indian-language neural machine translation, IndoWordNet, and computational sarcasm. In 2015, he coauthors the ACL-IJCNLP paper “Harnessing Context Incongruity for Sarcasm Detection” with Aditya Joshi and Vinita Sharma.
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2015–2020
Director of IIT Patna
He serves as director of IIT Patna from 2015 to 2020.
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2016
President of the ACL
In 2016, he serves as president of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).
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2021
H.H. Mathur Research Excellence Award
He receives IIT Bombay's H.H. Mathur Research Excellence Award in 2021.
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August 2025
RBI's FREE-AI report
In August 2025, he chairs the RBI committee for the Framework for Responsible and Ethical Enablement of Artificial Intelligence (FREE-AI).
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October 2025
Death in October 2025
He dies in 2025.
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