Project Positions
High value research positions under the flagship scheme
Uchchatar Avishkar Yojana
Project Title: Effective Drug
Repurposing through literature and patent mining, data integration
and development of systems pharmacology platform
Project Sponsor : Excelra Knowledge Solutions Private
Limited, Department of Information technology (DeiTY) Ministry of
Human Resource Development (MHRD)
Uchchatar Avishkar Yojana (UAY) is a flagship scheme of MHRD, Govt
of India for industry-sponsored outcome-oriented research projects.
This project sanctioned under the UAY scheme jointly sponsored by
Excelra, MHRD and DeiTY aims at using advanced techniques
technologies in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and
Machine Learning (ML) to advance the technologies in the field of
Drug Repurposing (DR) and Drug Reconsidering (DRe). This project
aims at automating the process of knowledge extraction from
biomedical literature, patents and clinical trial studies along with
other resources using NLP and ML techniques and to use the extracted
knowledge for several tasks including DR, DRe, patient
stratification, etc. in collaboration with GVK biosciences as
industry partner.
Several project positions available
Project Positions
High-valued fellowships offered under the prestigious Uchhatar
Avishkar Yojna (UAY).
We are looking for exceptional candidates, who are highly motivated
to pursue research in the field of Text Mining, Natural Language
Processing and Machine Learning.
Junior Project Officer (JPO): up to Rs 30000 per month
Senior Project Officer (SPO): up to Rs 50000 per month (based
on qualification and experience)
Minimum Qualification:
JPO: B.Tech in CSE or related areas. Minimum 75% or CGPA 8. Marks in
Class X and XII above 80%. Gate score is desirable.
SPO: M. Tech in CSE, BTech with 2 years experience and exceptional
background, Minimum 75% or CGPA 8. Marks in Class X and XII above
80%.
Project Investigators: Prof.
Sudeshna Sarkar, Prof. Partha Pratim Das, Prof. Jayanta Mukhopadhyay
and Prof. Pawan Goyal, Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering