Ayan Das Research Scholar (PhD Student) Department of Computer Science and Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur Address : General Research Lab, Room No. A-208, First Floor, CSE Building                   Department of Computer Science and Engineering,                   IIT Kharagpur, West Bengal 721 302, INDIA. Email:       ayandas84 [at] gmail [dot]com      [CV]

About

Research Interests

• Natural Language Processing
• Machine Learning
• Convex Optimization
• Information Retrieval

Education

• 2013:   M.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur


• 2008:   B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Durgapur


• 2003:   ISCE (Class XII Board Exam)
Board:   Council For The Indian School Certificate Examinations
School:   St. Thomas' High School, Dasnagar


• 2001:   ICSE (Class X Board Exam)
Board:   Council For The Indian School Certificate Examinations
School:   St. Thomas' High School, Dasnagar

Publications      

Journals

1. Ayan Das, Sudeshna Sarkar
   Transform, Combine, and Transfer: Delexicalized Transfer Parser for Low-resource Languages
   ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (TALLIP), 2019.

Conferences

1. Ayan Das and Sudeshna Sarkar
   A little perturbation makes a difference: Treebank augmentation by perturbation improves transfer parsing
   16th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON), 2019, Hyderabad, India.


2. Ayan Das, Affan Zaffar, Sudeshna Sarkar
   Delexicalized transfer parsing for low-resource languages using transformed and combined treebanks
   CoNLL 2017 Shared Task: Multilingual Parsing from Raw Text to Universal Dependencies, 2017, Vancouver, Canada.


3. Ayan Das, Raghuveer Chanda, Smriti Agrawal, Sourangshu Bhatacharya
   Distributed Weighted Parameter Averaging for SVM Training on Big Data
   Distributed Machine Learning workshop, AAAI 2017, San Francisco, USA.


4. Ayan Das, Agnivo Saha, Sudeshna Sarkar
   Development of a Bengali parser by cross-lingual transfer from Hindi
   6th Workshop on South and Southeast Asian Natural language (WSSANLP), COLING 2016, Osaka, Japan.


5. Ayan Das, Pranay Yerra, Sudeshna Sarkar
   A study of attention-based Neural Machine Translation models on Indian Languages
   6th Workshop on South and Southeast Asian Natural language (WSSANLP), COLING 2016, Osaka, Japan.


6. Ayan Das, Agnivo Saha, Sudeshna Sarkar
   Cross-lingual transfer parsing from Hindi to Bengali using delexicalization and chunking
   13th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON), 2016, Varanasi, India.


7. Ayan Das and Sudeshna Sarkar
   Word Sense Disambiguation in Bengali applied to Bengali-Hindi Machine Translation
   10th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON), 2013, Noida, India.

Work Experience

• Tata Consultancy Services
Designation:   Assistant Systems Engineer
Duration:   June 2008 - July 2011 (3 years)

Activities

• Programming & Data Structures
• Operating Systems Lab
• Machine Learning
• Information Retrieval
• Data Analytics
• Foundations of Algorithm Design and Machine Learning
• Artificial Intelligence