Dr. Sriparna Saha is currently serving as an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India. She has authored or co-authored more than 400 papers. Her current research interests include machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing, multiobjective optimization and biomedical information extraction. Her h-index is 40 and the total citation count of her papers is 8352 (according to Google scholar). She is also a senior member of IEEE, fellow of IETE. She is the recipient of Lt Rashi Roy Memorial Gold Medal from the Indian Statistical Institute for outstanding performance in MTech (computer science), Google India Women in Engineering Award, 2008, Pattern Recognition Letters Editor Awards 2023, NASI YOUNG SCIENTIST PLATINUM JUBILEE AWARD 2016, BIRD Award 2016, IEI Young Engineers’ Award 2016, SERB WOMEN IN EXCELLENCE AWARD 2018, SERB Early Career Research Award 2018, Humboldt Research Fellowship, Indo-U.S. Fellowship for Women in STEMM (WISTEMM) Women Overseas Fellowship program 2018 and CNRS fellowship. She has visited University of Heidelberg, Germany, University of Trento, Italy, University of Caen, France, University of Mainz, Germany, University of Kyoto, Japan, Queens’ University, UK; University of California San Diego, USA; Monash University, Malaysia campus; King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology, Thailand, as a visiting scientist. She won the best paper awards in ICONIP 2023, CLINICAL-NLP workshop of COLING 2016, IEEE-INDICON 2015, ICACCI 2012; Area Chair Award (Information Extraction Track) in IJCNLP-AACL 2023. She is currently also serving as the Associate Editor of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, IEEE Transactions on AI, ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing, Expert Systems with Applications, IEEE Internet Computing, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Neurocomputing). Her name is included in the list of top 2% of scientists of their main subfield discipline (Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing), across those that have published at least five papers (a survey conducted by Stanford University) in 4 consecutive years. Her name is included in the list of eight leading women scientists in the area of AI in India published by INDIAai which is the National AI Portal of India – a central hub for everything AI in India and beyond, a joint initiative of MeitY, NeGD and NASSCOM, the website aims to be the trusted content powerhouse in the backdrop of India’s journey to global prominence in Artificial Intelligence.

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