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Abhik Jana

Dr. Abhik Jana

Assistant Professor
  • Room No: B 204, SECS
  • 06747135742
  • abhikjana@iitbbs.ac.in
  • School of Electrical and Computer Sciences
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Prior to joining IIT Bhubaneswar in January 2023, he was a research associate at Universität Hamburg, Germany, working with Professor Dr. Chris Biemann (November 2019-December 2022). He obtained a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT Kgp) under the supervision of Professor Dr. Pawan Goyal. He completed his Master of Technology (M.Tech) degree at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT Kgp), India, under the supervision of Professor Dr. Anupam Basu. He did his Bachelor of Technology(B.Tech) degree at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Insitute of Engineering and Management, Kolkata.
[Ongoing]
  • Human-in-the-Loop Federated Learning Framework for Sequence Labelling Task Targeted to Low-Resource Indian Languages (sponsored by IIT Bhubaneswar, 2024-2026)
  • Optimization of Algorithms for Voice Analysis System for Defence Applications (sponsored by DRDO, 2024-2027)
[Completed]
  • Interactive story/poetry writing and scene generation using Augmented Reality (sponsored by VARCOE,  2023-2026)
  • Geospatial Knowledge Inference using LLMs for Enhanced Travel Decision-Making (sponsored by Microsoft, 2024-2025)

Department of CSE, IIT Bhubaneswar, India

  •    Advanced Machine Learning Lab (CS6P009), Spring [2025,  2026].
  •    Natural Language Processing (CS6L027), Spring [2024, 2025, 2026].
  •    Data Structures (CS2L004), Autumn [2023, 2024, 2025].
  •    Data Structure Laboratory (CS2P002), Autumn [2023, 2024, 2025].
  •    Introduction to Programming and Data Structures (CS1L001), Autumn 2023.
  •    Introduction to Programming and Data Structure Laboratory (CS1P001), Spring 2023.
  •    Design and Analysis of Algorithms (CS2L002), Spring 2023.
  •    Design and Analysis of Algorithms Laboratory (CS2P001), Spring 2023.
Department of Informatics, University of Hamburg, Germany
  • Statistical Methods for Language Technology, Spring 2022.
  • NLP And The Web, Autumn 2020, Autumn 2021.

MS/PhD Supervision (Ongoing – 4): 

  1.  Ritwik Raghav (Ph.D. Scholar,  since Autumn 2023)
  2.  Manmohan Mahapatra (MS Scholar, since Spring 2024)
  3.  Avik Sarkar (Ph.D. Scholar,  since Autumn 2025)
  4.  Anirban Betal (MS Scholar, since Autumn 2025)
 Master’s Thesis Supervision (Completed – 9; Ongoing – 3):
Name Thesis Title Degree Year Placement Status
Revanth Rao UTP-Bench: Uncertainty-aware Travel Planning Benchmark M.Tech 2024-26 Software AI Trainee, [x]CUBE Labs Finished
Ankit Gupta Asymmetry and Neighborhood-Aware Scoring for Lexical Semantic Change Detection M.Tech 2024-26 Assistant Professor, Panveer Singh Institute of Technology, Kanpur Finished
Nali Bhavna Towards Robust Speech-to-Speech Translation for Low-Resource Dravidian Languages M.Tech 2024-26 Trainee analyst (Data Science), Tiger Analytics Finished
Akshay Sharma (Co-supervision) Text To Image Generation Using MLLM M.Tech 2023-25 AI Researcher, Alchem International Finished
Urmil Kalpesh Vora Fake News Detection in Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, and Telugu M.Tech 2023-25 Project Associate (AI/ML), AI CERTs Finished
Amit Singh Common Sense Reasoning Using Large Language Model  M.Tech  2022-24 Cabinet Secretariat Deputy Field Officer, Govt. of India Finished
Likhita Sunkari Automated News Headline Generation in Telugu  Dual  2019-24  Data Scientist, Turing Finished
Agamya Yadav Automated Intepretation of Hindi Poetry  Dual  2019-24  SDE, Media.net Finished
Jupally Sai Krishna (Co-supervision) Interactive Story Generation  Dual  2019-24  SDE, Brane Enterprises Finished
Bachelor’s Thesis Supervision (Completed – 15; Ongoing – 5):
Name Thesis Title Degree Year Placement Status
Harshith Reddy Automatic Speech Recognition for Indian Languages and Code-Switched Speech B.Tech 2022-26 Quantitative researcher, MarsQuant Finished
Bandaru Lavadeep IndiAnn: A Web-based Annotation Platform for Indic Languages B.Tech 2022-26 Data Science Engineer, ZS Associates Finished
Abhishek Kumar (Co-supervision)

Priyam Saha

 Analysis of Biasness in User Engagement on Indian News Media

Analyzing the Computational Energy of Spiking Neural Network Models

 B.Tech

B.Tech

 2021-25

2021-25

 Ultimate Kronos Group (UKG) (Software Engineer)

Oracle (Software Developer Engineer-1(SDE-1)

 Finished

Finished
Gunda Anish Low-Resource Neural Machine Translation Using Pivot-Based Approach for Indic-to-Indic Languages B.Tech 2021-25 Imperial College London, UK (Master’s in Computer Science) Finished
Joshua Jose Dias Barreto Large Language Models for Negation Reasoning B.Tech 2021-25 University of California, Davis (Master’s in Computer Science) Finished
Akhil Kumar M Text Summarization on Indian Legal Corpus B.Tech 2020-24 SDE, Ittiam systems Finished
Chekuri Muni Siva Charan Telugu Text Summarisation  B.Tech 2020-24 Data Analyst,Tiger Analytics  Finished
Kaushik Dey Enhancing Context-Based Question Answering Capabilities of Bengali Models  B.Tech  2020-24 Digital Analyst, Accenture, Japan  Finished
Ravinuthala Lasya Priya Text Summarisation in Telugu  B.Tech  2020-24 Data Scientist, Publicis Sapient  Finished
Sakshi Shashikant Yeole Legal Document Classification  B.Tech  2020-24 Data Scientist, Publicis Sapient  Finished
Sathvik Mallela Sentiment analysis for Telugu language  B.Tech  2020-24 Advanced app engineering analyst, Accenture  Finished
Venkata Anirudh Vepuri Legal Named Entity Recognition  B.Tech  2020-24 Associate Solution Leader, Brane Enterprises Private Limited  Finished
Thadicherla Hrishith Question Answering for Telugu Language Dual  2020-25  Continuing Dual Degree  Finished
Pooner Sumith Sentiment analysis for Hindi Language  B.Tech  2020-24  SDE, SOFTWARE TF  Finished

 

  1. Daniel Martin Katz, Dirk Hartung, Lauritz Gerlach, Abhik Jana, and Michael J. Bommarito II. Natural language processing in the legal domain. arXiv  2023 (Under Review).
  2. Abhik Jana, Gopalakrishnan Venkatesh, Seid Muhie Yimam, and Chris Biemann, Hypernymy Detection for Low-Resource Languages: A Study for Hindi, Bengali, and Amharic, ACM TALLIP 2022.
  3. Abhik Jana, Siddhant Haldar, and Pawan Goyal, Network Embeddings from Distributional Thesauri for Improving Static Word Representations, ESA 2022.
  4. Abhik Jana, Animesh Mukherjee, and Pawan Goyal, Network measures: A new paradigm towards reliable novel word sense detection, IPM 2020.
  5. Manjira Sinha, Tirthankar Dasgupta, Abhik Jana, Anupam Basu, Design and Development of a Bangla Semantic Lexicon and Semantic Similarity Measure,  IJCA 2014.
  1. Manmohan Mahapatra, Abhik Jana. Does Label-Aware Speech Representation Help?- an Investigation for Indian Spoken Language Identification, TENCON-2026, Bali, Indonesia (To Appear).
  2. Rhythm Patel, Abhik Jana. Federated Named Entity Recognition for Indic Languages, TENCON-2026, Bali, Indonesia (To Appear).
  3. Bandaru Lavadeep, Ritwik Raghav, Abhik Jana. IndiAnn: A Web-based Annotation Platform for Indic Languages, LAW-2026 (Co-located with ACL  2026), San Diego, USA.
  4. Nali Bhavana, Abhik Jana. Cascaded Modular or End-to-End? : An Investigation on Speech-to-Speech Translation Task for Dravidian Languages, DravidianLangTech-2026 (Co-located with ACL  2026), San Diego, USA.
  5. Priyanshu Karmakar, Soumyabrata Chaudhuri, Shubhojit Mallick, Manish Gupta, Abhik Jana, Shreya Ghosh. TripTide: A Benchmark for Adaptive Travel Planning under Disruptions, ACL  2026 (Findings), San Diego, USA.
  6. Abhishek Kumar, Abhik Jana, and Debi Prosad Dogra. Characterization of User Engagement in Electronic News Media: A Case Study for India, PoliticalNLP (Co-located with LREC 2026), Palma de Mallorca,  Spain.
  7. Felix Wernlein, Abhik Jana and Sandipan Sikdar. Early Fusion with Contrastive Learning: A Lightweight Alternative for Multi-modal Classification. LREC 2026, Palma de Mallorca,  Spain.
  8. Sai Krishna Jupally, Abhik Jana, and Manoranjan Satpathy. Story Generation via Interaction between Human and Large Language Model, IEEE GCON 2026, IIT Guwahati, India (To Appear).
  9. Akshay Sharma, Manoranjan Satpathy, and Abhik Jana. Prompt Expansion with Multimodal Models for Enhanced Scene Rendering. ICCAI 2026, Okinawa, Japan (To Appear).
  10. Ritwik Raghav and Abhik Jana. Are LLMs Good for Semantic Role Labeling via Question Answering?: A Preliminary Analysis. IJCNLP-AACL SRW 2025, IIT Mumbai, India.
  11. Joshua Jose Dias Barreto and Abhik Jana. This is not a Disimprovement: Improving Negation Reasoning in Large Language Models via Prompt Engineering. EMNLP  2025 (Findings), Suzhou, China.
  12. Ankan Mullick, Saransh Sharma, Abhik Jana, and Pawan Goyal. Text Takes Over: A Study of Modality Bias in Multimodal Intent Detection. EMNLP 2025, Suzhou, China.
  13. Soumyabrata Chaudhuri, Pranav Purkar, Ritwik Raghav, Shubhojit Mallick, Manish Gupta, Abhik Jana, and Shreya Ghosh. TripCraft: A Benchmark for Spatio-Temporally Fine Grained Travel Planning, ACL 2025, Vienna, Austria.
  14. Likhita Sunkari, and Abhik Jana, News Headline Generation in Telugu, WiNLP (Co-located with EMNLP 2024), Florida, USA .
  15. Punyajoy Saha, Abhilash Datta, Abhik Jana, and Animesh Mukherjee, CrowdCounter: A benchmark type-specific multi-target counterspeech dataset, CoNLL 2024, Florida, USA.
  16. Rohan Kumar Yadav, Bimal Bhattarai, Abhik Jana, Lei Jiao and Seid Muhie Yimam, Pruning Literals for Highly Efficient Explainability at Word Level,  ISTM 2024, Pittsburgh, USA.
  17. Punyajoy Saha, Aalok Agrawal, Abhik Jana, Chris Biemann, and Animesh Mukherjee. On Zero-Shot Counterspeech Generation by LLMs, LREC-COLING 2024, Turin, Italy.
  18. Özge Sevgili, Steffen Remus, Abhik Jana, Alexander Panchenko, and Chris Biemann. Unsupervised Ultra-Fine Entity Typing with Distributionally Induced Word Senses, AIST 2023, Yerevan, Armenia.
  19. Sushil Awale, and Abhik Jana, Enriching Hindi WordNet Using Knowledge Graph Completion Approach, EURALI (Co-located with LREC 2022), Marseille, France.
  20. Sree Bhattacharyya, and Abhik Jana, Towards Bengali WordNet Enrichment using Knowledge Graph Completion Techniques, EURALI (Co-located with LREC 2022), Marseille, France.
  21. Ilias Chalkidis, Abhik Jana, Dirk Hartung, Michael James Bommarito, Ion Androutsopoulos, Daniel Martin Katz, and Nikolaos Aletras, LexGLUE: A Benchmark Dataset for Legal Language Understanding in English, ACL 2022, Dublin, Ireland.
  22. Gopalakrishnan Venkatesh, Abhik Jana, Steffen Remus, Ozge Sevgili, Gopalakrishnan ¨ Srinivasaraghavan, and Chris Biemann. Using Distributional Thesaurus To Enhance Transformer based Contextualized Representations for Low Resource Languages, ACM/SIGAPP SAC 2022, Virtual Conference.
  23. Anirban Bhowmick, and Abhik Jana, Sentiment Analysis For Bengali Using Transformer Based Models, ICON 2021, Assam, India.
  24. Abhik Jana, and Chris Biemann, An Investigation towards Differentially Private Sequence Tagging in a Federated Framework, PrivateNLP (Co-located with NAACL 2021), Virtual Conference.
  25. Timo Johner, Abhik Jana, and Chris Biemann, Error Analysis of using BART for Multi-Document Summarization: A Study for English and German Language, NoDaLiDa 2021, Reykjavik, Iceland.
  26. Abhik Jana, Nikhil Reddy Varimalla, and Pawan Goyal, Using Distributional Thesaurus Embedding for Co-hyponymy Detection, LREC 2020, Virtual Conference.
  27. Soumya Sharma, Bishal Santra, Abhik Jana, Santosh Tokala, Niloy Ganguly and Pawan Goyal, Incorporating Domain Knowledge into Medical NLI using Knowledge Graphs, EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019, Hong Kong, China .
  28. Abhik Jana, Dmitry Puzyrev, Alexander Panchenko, Pawan Goyal, Chris Biemann and Animesh Mukherjee, On the Compositionality Prediction of Noun Phrases using Poincaré Embeddings, ACL 2019, Florence, Italy.
  29. Abhik Jana, Animesh Mukherjee and Pawan Goyal, Detecting Reliable Novel Word Senses: A Network-Centric Approach,  ACM/SIGAPP SAC 2019, Limassol, Cyprus.
  30. Abhik Jana, Pranjal Kanojiya, Pawan Goyal and Animesh Mukherjee, WikiRef: Wikilinks as a route to recommending appropriate references for scientific Wikipedia pages, COLING  2018, New Mexico, USA.
  31. Abhik Jana and Pawan Goyal, Can Network Embedding of Distributional Thesaurus be Combined with Word Vectors for Better Representation?, NAACL -HLT 2018, New Orleans, USA.
  32. Abhik Jana and Pawan Goyal, Network Features Based Co-hyponymy Detection, LREC 2018, Miyazaki, Japan.
  33. Abhik Jana, Sruthi Mooriyath, Animesh Mukherjee and Pawan Goyal, WikiM: Metapaths based Wikification of Scientific Abstracts, JCDL  2017, Toronto, Canada.
  34. Manjira Sinha, Abhik Jana, Tirthankar Dasgupta, Anupam Basu, A New Semantic Lexicon and Similarity Measure in Bangla, CogALex-III (Co-located with COLING 2012), IIT Mumbai, India.
Degree Discipline Year School
  Ph.D. Computer Science and Engineering 2019 IIT Kharagpur
  M.Tech Computer Science and Engineering 2013 IIT Kharagpur
  B.Tech Computer Science and Engineering 2011 IEM, Kolkata (WBUT)
  • Research Associate, Language Technology Group, University of Hamburg, Germany. (November 2019-December 2022)
  • Member of Technical Staff II (Research), Advanced Technology Group, NetApp India Private Limited, India. (July 2013- July 2014)
  • Awarded Microsoft Academic Partnership Grant (MAPG) 2024.
  • Selected for Heidelberg Laureate Forum 2020-21
  • Awarded Microsoft Research India Student Travel Grant for attending ACL 2019
  • Awarded ACM SIGAPP 2019 Student Travel Grant for attending ACM SAC 2019.
  • Awarded CoDS-COMAD 2019 Student Travel Grant for attending CODS-COMAD 2019
  • Awarded ACM India-IARCS Student Travel Grant for attending COLING 2018
  • Awarded Microsoft Research India Student Travel Grant for attending COLING 2018
  • Awarded Flipkart India Travel Grant for attending NAACL 2018
  • Awarded SIGIR Student Travel Grant for attending JCDL 2017
  • CTO Innovation Award FY14 (NetAPP India Private Limited, 2014)
  • TCS Best Student Project Award (for B.Tech Thesis, 2011)
Professional Activities:
  • Served as Area Chair for ACL 2026, EMNLP 2026.
  • Served as Reviewer for ACL 2019-25, EMNLP 2020-25, CoNLL 2019-23, NAACL 2019-24, LREC 2020-26, COLING 2020-24, AAAI- 2025.
  • Co-organizing the First Workshop on Generative AI and Computational Journalism (JEN-AI 2026) as a Program Committee member.
  • Organized Faculty Development Programme on Recent Trends and Applications in Artificial Intelligence at IIT Bhubaneswar, 25th Feb -1st March, 2025, as Faculty Coordinator.
  • Served as an invited speaker in SPARC-sponsored workshop titled “Frontiers of AI, Cloud, and Quantum Computing for Next-Generation Healthcare and Societal Applications”, January 2026.
  • Co-organized the 3rd International Conference on Microwave, Optical and Communication Engineering (ICMOCE-2025), 23rd-25th May, 2025, as Track Chair of Data Science and AI Track.
  • Served as session chair in the 3rd International Conference on Microwave, Optical and Communication Engineering (ICMOCE-2025), May 2025.
  • Served as invited speaker in IMA Silver Jubilee Workshop on “Mathematical Aspects of AI and Computing”, December, 2024; IMA, Bhubaneswar.
  • Served as an invited speaker in the Workshop on “Applied Cyber Security for Airport Authority of India” January, 2024.
  • Served as Liaison Officer at the G20 Event 2023, Bhubaneswar.
  • Co-organizer of TextGraphs 2020, 2021, 2022.
  • Part of the Organizing team of ACL 2019 held in Florence, Italy, as a student volunteer.
  • Part of Organizing team of a workshop on ‘Machine Learning for Cyber Physical Systems’ held at IIT Kharagpur, September 2018 as instructor for programming session.
  • Organized International Conference on the Networked Digital Earth (ICNDE) at IIT Kharagpur, March 2018 as student volunteer.
  • Organized Workshop on Complex and Social Networks at IIT Kharagpur, March 2017 as student volunteer.
  • Organized short-term school and workshop on Machine Learning and Complex Network at IIT Kharagpur, Feb 2015 as student volunteer.
Extracurricular activities:
  • I love to do sports (Cricket, football, lawn tennis, badminton, and table tennis).
  • I like travelling, trekking, hiking, river rafting.
  • Here are some glimpses of those activities.
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