Jan 2023 to present
Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Bhubaneswar, India
Natural Language Processing
Dr. Abhik Jana
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar
I work on Natural Language Processing, with a focus on Indian and other low-resource languages and on how large language models reason and plan.
About
I am an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Bhubaneswar, India. I joined in January 2023. Before that I was a Research Associate at Universität Hamburg, Germany (November 2019 to December 2022), working with Prof. Dr. Chris Biemann.
I completed my Ph.D. at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Kharagpur, under Prof. Dr. Pawan Goyal. My M.Tech is also from IIT Kharagpur, where my thesis was supervised by Prof. Dr. Anupam Basu. My B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering is from the Institute of Engineering and Management, Kolkata.
Experience
Nov 2019 to Dec 2022
Research AssociateLanguage Technology Group, University of Hamburg, Germany
Jul 2013 to Jul 2014
Member of Technical Staff II (Research)Advanced Technology Group, NetApp India Private Limited
Education
2019
Ph.D., Computer Science and EngineeringIIT Kharagpur. Advisor: Prof. Dr. Pawan Goyal
2013
M.Tech, Computer Science and EngineeringIIT Kharagpur. Thesis advisor: Prof. Dr. Anupam Basu
2011
B.Tech, Computer Science and EngineeringInstitute of Engineering and Management (IEM), Kolkata