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Partha Pratim Das

Partha Pratim Das

Professor of Computer Science, Ashoka University

PhD IIT Kharagpur

Partha Pratim Das obtained his PhD in 1988. He served as a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Kharagpur, from 1988 to 1998. He then shifted from academics to industry, initially as a Director for Alumnus Software and as the CEO of a start-up A Quaint Technology before joining Interra Systems as a Senior Director and Centre Head, Kolkata in 2001. He returned to IIT Kharagpur in 2011 and served till 2022. His areas of interest include data science, software engineering, food computing, digital learning, and digital heritage.

Dr Das has been a Visiting Professor with the Department of Computer Science, Ashoka University (2022-24) and the Institute of Radio Physics and Electronics, University of Calcutta (2003–12), Head of the Rajendra Mishra School of Engineering Entrepreneurship, IIT Kharagpur, (2013–20), Professor-in-Charge for the Research Park, IIT Kharagpur (2017–20), and Joint Principal Investigator at the award-winning National Digital Library of India (NDLI) project of the Ministry of Education (2015-22).

Recognition for Dr Das’s work includes the UGC Young Teachers’ Career Award (1993), Young Associate-ship of Indian Academy of Sciences (1992), INSA Young Scientist Award (1990), and UNESCO/ROSTSCA Young Scientist Award (1989).

Dr Das has served as General Co-Chair for VLSI Design 2005, as Organizing Chair for VDAT 2007, as Program Co-Chair for VLSI Design 2016, and as General Co-Chair for UNESCO-NDL India International Workshop on Knowledge Engineering for Digital Library Design in 2017 and in 2019. He has served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the Institution of Engineers (India): Series B of Springer (2013–20).

  • Suman Adhya, Abhishek Lahiri, Debarshi Kumar Sanyal, and Partha Pratim Das. Evaluating Negative Sampling Approaches for Neural Topic Models. IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, 2024. To appear.
  • Soumen Paul, Partha Pratim Das, K Sreenivas Rao. Ontology in Dance Domain: A Survey. ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, 2024. To appear.
  • Ankita Chatterjee, Jayanta Mukhopadhyay, and Partha Pratim Das. ImageNet Classification using WordNet Hierarchy. IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence 5 (4), 2024, p. 1718-1727. https://doi.org/10.1109/TAI.2023.3297086
  • Abhishek Kumar, Partha Pratim Das, and Partha Pratim Chakrabarti. ICLNet: Stepping Beyond Dates for Robust Issue-Commit Link Recovery. 2024 IEEE/ACM 46th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2024), Lisbon, Portugal, 14-20 Apr, 2024. https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3639478.3643532
  • Partha Pratim Das. Perspective Chapter: MOOCs in India: Evolution, Innovation, Impact, and Roadmap, In: Goundar S (ed.), Massive Open Online Courses – Current Practice and Future Trends (ISBN 978-1-83769-523-2), IntechOpen, 2023. https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.1001972
  • Abhishek Kumar, Partha Pratim Das, and Partha Pratim Chakrabarti. Summarize Me: The Future of Issue Thread Interpretation. 2023 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME 2023), Bogota, Colombia, 1-6 Oct, 2023. https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ICSME58846.2023.00042
  • Plaban Kumar Bhowmick, Partha Pratim Das, Partha Pratim Chakrabarti, and Debarshi Kumar Sanyal. National Digital Library of India: Democratizing Education in India, Communications of the ACM 65(11), Nov. 2022, p. 58–61. https://doi.org/10.1145/3550480
  • Srijoni Majumdar, Ayush Bansal, Partha Pratim Das, Paul D Clough, Kausik Datta, and Soumya Kanti Ghosh. Automated Evaluation of Comments to aid Software Maintenance. Journal of Software: Evolution and Process, Wiley, May 2022. https://doi.org/10.1002/smr.2463
  • Surajit Kundu, Santam Chakraborty, Jayanta Mukhopadhyay, Syamantak Das, Sanjoy Chatterjee, Rimpa Basu Achari, Indranil Mallick, Partha Pratim Das, Moses Arunsingh, Tapesh Bhattacharyyaa and Soumendranath Ray. Design and development of a medical image databank for assisting studies in radiomics. Journal of Digital Imaging. 2022. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10278-021-00576-6
  • Tanwi Mallick, Partha Pratim Das and Arun Kumar Majumdar. Posture and Sequence Recognition for Bharatanatyam Dance Performances using Machine Learning Approaches. Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvcir.2022.103548
  • Tanwi Mallick, Partha Pratim Das and Arun Kumar Majumdar. Bharatanatyam Dance Transcription using Multimedia Ontology and Machine Learning. In: Mukhopadhyay J., Sreedevi I., Chanda B., Chaudhury S., Namboodiri V.P. (eds) Digital Techniques for Heritage Presentation and Preservation. Springer, Cham. Springer 2021. p. 179–222. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57907-4_10
  • Srijoni Majumdar, Nachiketa Chatterjee, Partha Pratim Das and Amlan Chakrabarti. A Mathematical Framework for Design Discovery from Multithreaded Applications using Neural Sequence Solvers. Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering, 17, Springer, April 2021. p. 289-–307. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11334-021-00393-8
  • Surajit Kundu, Santam Chakraborty, Sanjoy Chatterjee, Syamantak Das, Rimpa Basu Achari, Jayanta Mukhopadhyay, Partha Pratim Das, Indranil Mallick, Moses Arunsingh, Tapesh Bhattacharyyaa and Soumendranath Ray. De-Identification of Radiomics Data Retaining Longitudinal Temporal Information. Journal of Medical Systems, 44(5), 2020. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10916-020-01563-0
  • Tanwi Mallick, Partha Pratim Das and Arun Kumar Majumdar. Characterization, Detection, and Synchronization of Audio-Video Events in Bharatanatyam Adavus. In Chanda B., Chaudhuri S., Chaudhury S. (eds) Heritage Preservation: A Computational Approach, Springer, Singapore, 2018, p. 241–268. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7221-5_12
  • Tanwi Mallick, Partha Pratim Das and Arun Kumar Majumdar. Characterizations of Noise in Kinect Depth Images: A Review. IEEE Sensors Journal 14 (6), IEEE, 2014, p. 1731–1740. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSEN.2014.2309987
  • Numerical Methods (2014) 
  • Digital Geometry in Image Processing (2013) 
  • A Comprehensive Guide to Problems and Solutions on Pascal (1993)
  • Academic and Research
    • Young Engineer Award: Indian National Academy of Engineering (1996)
    • Young Teachers’ Career Award: University Grants Commission (1993)
    • Young Associate of Indian Academy of Sciences (1992)
    • INSA Medal for Young Scientist: Indian National Science Academy (1990)
    • UNESCO/ROSTSCA Young Scientist Award: UNESCO (1989)
    • Best Paper Prize from Kharagpur branch of IEEE (1986): Jointly with Dr. Partha Pratim Chakrabarti
    • Virendra Gupta Award from Computer Society of India (1986)
  • Industry:
    • Interra 10 Years’ Tenure Plaque (2011)
    • Interra Special (Process) Recognition (2009)
  • Teaching 
    • Top Teaching Feedback at IIT Khragpur: Six times between 2014–18
  • As Joint Principal Investigator of NDLI Project:
    • World Summit Award: Learning and Education (2021), WSA Global
    • SM4E Award: Innovation @ COVID-19 (2021), DEF India
    • Elets Awards of Digital Excellence: Digital Innovation (2020), Elets Technomedia
    • OE Awards for Excellence: Open Resilience (2020), OE Global
    • Gems of Digital India Award: eGovernance Initiatives (2019), Coeus Age & Micro Focus
    • mBillionth Awards: Learning & Education (2017), DEF India
  • Compilers
  • Computational Geometry
  • Computer Graphics
  • Discrete Mathematics
  • Database Management Systems
  • Design & Analysis of Algorithms
  • Embedded Systems
  • Foundations of Algorithms & Machine Learning
  • Image Processing
  • Information System Design
  • Introduction to Computing
  • Object Oriented Programming
  • Principles of Programming Languages
  • Programming & Data Structure
  • Software Engineering
  • Switching & Automata Theory
  • Theory of Computation
  • Data Base Management Systems (Online: NPTEL & IIT Madras BSc)
  • Object Oriented Analysis and Design (Online: NPTEL)
  • Programming in Modern C++ / Programming in C++ (Online: NPTEL)
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