I recently took admission in Department of Computer Science and Engineering of Indian Institute of Technology Bombay came to know about Pushpak Bhattacharyya. Can you provide basic details and profile of Professor Pushpak Bhattacharyya and tell his research areas?

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Pushpak Bhattacharyya is a computer scientist and a Professor at Computer Science and Engineering Department, IIT Bombay

Dr. Pushpak Bhattacharyya, FNAE
Currently, Director, IIT Patna
Ex-President Association for Computational Linguistics
Ex-Vijay and Sita Vashee Chair Professor

Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Powai, Mumbai - 400 076
Maharashtra, India.

Education:

Ph.D., Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay , India, 1989-1994.
M.Tech, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur , India, 1986.
B.Tech, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, 1984.
Visiting Research Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology , USA, 1990.

Research areas:

Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Cross Lingual IR, Information Extraction

Positions Held:

Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Bombay, 2002-current.
Professeur Invite', Groupe D'Etude en Traduction Automatique-Communication Langagiere et Interation Personne-Systeme (GETA-CLIPS) and Universite Joseph-Fourier, Grenoble, France, summer of 2005, 2009, 2011.
Visiting Professor, Stanford University, summer of 2004.
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering , IIT Bombay, 1996-2001.
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering , IIT Bombay, 1990-1995.
Lecturer, Department of Computer Science and Engineering , IIT Bombay, 1988-1990.
Research and Development Engineer, Wipro Information Technology Ltd, 1986-87.
Scientist, Center for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (CAIR), 1987-88.